August Goals
Here we are almost a week and a half into another month! Woo. This year is just chugging along, isn’t it?! My Monthly Goals project is quickly becoming one of my favorite features I have done here. The amount of stuff that can be accomplished in a year, when broken down into small monthly goals, is pretty darn amazing. It is motivating.
This year I am breaking down my resolutions into (hopefully) attainable monthly goals. The first week of each month I am going to update you on how I did the previous month and what I hope to accomplish during the current month. My July Goals have been updated with what I was able to accomplish.
School has started again in The Kitchenarium house and we are settling back in to that routine. I hope to get a school lunch ideas post up next month. Even though I have been packing school lunches for six years, some mornings, I still need inspiration. Along with school starting comes all the after school activities / PTA-PTO meetings / busy week night schedules which means, at least for me, the temptation to cruise through the drive-thru or grab take-out increases. This month I am saying NO to fast food and will get my act together to put together an easy meal plan.
Not only do I reflect each month on my monthly goals but I also take a scroll back through my Instagram account to see what I captured. I am always snap, snap, snapping photos on my phone and it is so much fun to look back through and be reminded of the last month. Some months I overshare and other months I hardly post at all -this was one of those months.
To sum up July’s feed:
- I shared two projects that I teamed up with Baker’s Grocery store on last month
- Breakfast Salad was probably one of my favorite breakfasts of the month
- Doing a little gluten free recipe testing (Spicy Turkey Meatball Casserole!)
- ALWAYS have flowers.
- My daughters wanted to cook dinner and they looked up a recipe from here on their kindles… they ROCKED it! They even subbed the asparagus for fresh green beans. I am so proud!
- Mixed up a Chinese-esque ground beef dinner which we are calling Asian Spaghetti, I shared the recipe on Instagram
- Also not a month goes by that I don’t share a margarita -I swear 😉
August Goals:
- continue drinking half my body weight in water (if only it were as easy as drinking it in margaritas) I kid…. I’m getting better
- read 3 books (I’m on Goodreads) I read 2.5 books
- keep chugging away on admin stuff (BORING!) this totally got set on the back burner
- get my Newsletter project in order this totally got set on the back burner
- develop a sharable meal plan this totally got set on the back burner
- get back in to running slowly getting back
- host a dinner party YES! Had a great dinner party for 13
- host a brunch Did not get a brunch in this month
- go on a date with my hubs We did go on two dates(ish) they were both events but that counts, right?!
Last month I was able to read two books. Both were books I hadn’t heard of and pulled randomly from the NEW section at the library. A Thousand Falling Crows and The Devil You Know. I was pleasantly surprised with both.
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