2011 Priority List and Goals – May Check-in

I just realized that I didn’t do a checkin for May. So here we are. I will make this sort. You can see the original goals for 2011 here.

Family
I have been reading regularly to David and loving it so much. I’ve also been great about keeping up with weekly family shoots, daily diary, gratitudes, and family night. I finally signed up for a mommy and me class for Nathaniel and it starts in two weeks. We will be going to music class and I am hoping he will like it. Jake and I have been doing well with date nights as well.

Health
Going strong on the running and walking. Did 3.0 miles a day every day in May. I’m not doing strength but I did leg lifts and crunches daily. I’ve begun tracking the food at the very end of the month and have been working on reducing the graham crackers. I use the fitbit religiously and have been getting 7 hours of sleep most nights. I’ve also continued eating veggies and salads regularly. I’ve added an afternoon walk with David which takes my daily walk count to 10K every day.

Art + Photography
Sketching daily every day. Still doing weeklong art journaling and loving it. I have yet to go on a photo excursion but I do take my camera with me on my walks with David occasionally and that will have to do for now. I am not writing photo articles mostly cause I don’t feel any urge to so that’s that. I do still have an idea for an etsy shop product but I haven’t felt a need to work on it yet. Maybe in June or July. I also started doing the truth cards in May.

Scrapbooking
May was a busy month for scrapping. I did a lot of layouts for Margie’s new company, Pink Paislee, Maya Road, Jenni Bowlin, My Mind’s Eye, and Little Yellow Bicycle. I also had my creative therapy and write.click.scrapbook layouts done and ready to go. I did some projects for CHA even. I also prepared all the content for June’s Masterful Scrapbook Design focus (photos). Since Jenni Bowlin and Little Yellow Bicycle were both guest design spots, I even ended up working on that goal. I have not been submitting to magazines but might start working on that again soon. After CHA, likely.

Reading
Reading my weekly book regularly. Stuck on young adult but nonetheless. Reading to David, too. I attended both book clubs in May. Even hosted one.

Writing
This month hasn’t been strong on thoughts-posts. Mostly cause I’ve been so busy. I will bring these back, I like writing them. I do have some class ideas in the works but I don’t seem to want to work on them just yet. I’ve been diligent on the newsletter and happy to hear feedback if you’re getting them. I did attempt to briefly start writing fiction daily but it was short lived and didn’t leave me all that excited for a NaNoWriMo possibility but we’ll see. I’ve been journaling up a storm and do it every weekday and sometimes even on the weekends.

Learning
Learning to draw, sketch, paint. In May, I had Christy’s She Had Three Hearts class. I have two more coming up in June. Nothing on the iPad front yet or the stop motion movie.

Community (This is a particularly hard one for me.)
Going strong on the mom’s group and we had guests over in May (and it was lovely). I did meet up with a friend too and that was wonderful, too. I’ve been reaching out a little less in May, will need to do more in June.

And that’s it for May. Overall, I think I did pretty great. Lots of good goals met. Let’s bring on June!