I'm doing 38 things
For a year now, my husband and I have been teaching 4 and 5 year olds during the Wednesday night prayer service. We have a program called King’s Kids and it’s a ton of fun! I write up a lesson each week (with help from TONS of info and inspiration all over the internet of course!) and we do verse memorization, arts and crafts, learn songs, and play silly games. It’s not on Sunday, but it’s close enough to “Sunday” school! :-D
Mel's Life List
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1. pray more
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2. read my bible daily
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3. do my devotions daily
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4. stick to my FLYLADY routines
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5. take a photograph every day
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6. walk every day
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7. exercise four times a week
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8. give generously and faithfully to missions
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9. write more letters by hand
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10. knit socks
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11. volunteer at the library
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12. become debt free
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13. Make new friends, but keep the old
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14. finish my degree
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15. learn to play the guitar
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16. knit a sweater
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17. learn woodworking
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18. learn to knit continental style
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19. learn to sew
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20. Teach my children to love God.
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21. learn to knit intarsia
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22. Learn Japanese
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23. Be a Proverbs 31 woman
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24. climb mt. fuji
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25. have a home birth
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26. improve my vocabulary
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27. homeschool my kids
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28. become a scout leader
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29. sell things on etsy
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30. become a Bradley Method natural childbirth instructor
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31. teach high school mathematics and/or physics
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32. teach piano
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33. build a square foot garden
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34. learn how to spin yarn
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35. raise sheep
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36. open a yarn shop
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37. read every book on the Modern Libraries top 100 books of the 20th century
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38. Make a quilt
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How I did it
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How I did it: When I became pregnant, I was enrolled in a college English class. We had to do a research paper on a topic of our choice, and I decided to do mine on the environmental and financial impacts of cloth diapering versus disposable diapering a baby. I knew pretty much nothing going into it, and by the time I wrote my paper, I had myself convinced! Websites were my biggest resource and I read so many articles and message boards, talked to diap… Read how I did it…
Recent entries
I guess it’s been 3 months since I made this goal on 43T and a year since we’ve been at our current church, trying to tithe loyally. We decided it’s easiest for us to write a check each week rather than once a month and have been taking 10% off our gross pay (rather than net, which we were doing previously.) Sometimes we cut it kind of close, but the Lord has always provided for our needs in wonderful ways! We are trying to give more in the form of offerings to missions etc., but it has been tough and that’s our next priority!
Yesterday a friend had to rush to the emergency room, so I babysat her little girl for about 8 hours. Of course, I skipped my gym appointment and didn’t fill the time with any other exercise. It’s okay, though. Chasing around two babies is exercise enough for one night! :-)
Today we went to the yoga/pilates class. It was nice and I do enjoy the class, but now that I’m getting a pregnant belly, I’m thinking I’ll need to do something else. Yoga in general is fine while pregnant, but our instructor chooses a lot of positions that are getting pretty uncomfortable. There is an indoor cycling class at the same time that I think I’ll start taking.
