Eleanor's 5 year Update (3 months late!)

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Food: Strawberries

Color: Red and Pink 

Tv Show: Octonauts

Song:  Bless the Lord

Friend:  Eileen, Sydney, Peyton

Toy: Spinning Toy, Kindle

Excited about:  "I'm five now I can hula hoop

Miss about being 4. "4 year preschool (she's still in 4 year old preschool)

She's become very particular in what she wears, she hates matching and can't stand anything itchy (so seams on clothes drive her crazy).

She's gotten good at recognizing letters and figuring out what letters are in words (or at least the beginning).  Same thing with writing although she writes the letter n like a letter m which means her name is Eleamor.

Fine motor skills are in progress- she holds scissors and pencils so awkwardly.

She complains about going to church and school but usually is great once we get there.

She played soccer this fall instead of doing dance, she probably won't play again, but I made her stick with it and she was fine.

We spent her birthday at the Great Wolf Lodge instead of a party this year. 

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August Goals ~ Real Short and Sweet ~

We went on a date to Rob's cousins wedding. My parents had the kids overnight so we even had a night free.
 

I didn't make anything new that I can remember.

No debt paid off

Behind on my bible reading by the end of the month.

Read these books this month.

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July goals

Yep, its October and I'm just posting this.

Lots of reading this month

 

No paying off debt

We had our class reunion so we made that a date night.  Rob's mom and grandparents watched the kids overnight.


I fell behind on my bible reading, but am trying to catch up.

I made hot cocoa cheesecake dip for a christmas party.  I found it on pinterest and don't have the link but it was super easy!

June Goals

I made french dip for my new recipe.  I combined various recipes found with what I had.  It was pretty good though. 

I'm ahead on Bible reading

We went on one date.  It was a quick dinner date again.  Eleanor was at VBS and my parents watched Mallory

No debt paid off.

I think I've given up on my goal of eating less sweets.  Not formally but with summer and ice cream and it's so tough.

I didn't keep track of books very well so I'm not sure what I read exactly.  I finished this one and read from a few others but didn't finish them so I'm not counting them .

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May Goal Update

This was kind of a failure month here.

Bible Reading: I feel behind this month.

Date: We went to dinner once. Just dinner.  Just once.  

Donating/Purging:  I gave a box of girl clothes to a cousin.  

Debt:  None paid off this month

Books:

The first two were romance, for the most part fairly clean, but a few semi raunchy scences.
The last book was not but I really loved it!

Recipies:  Nothing new this month.  

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April Goal Update

Read

Donated

2 boxes to thrift store as well as some stuff to goodwill.  I may get shamed for this but some of the goodwill stuff had stains on it.  I'd heard that goodwill has the ability to recycle clothes and I hate to just throw things away.  Plus they are basically just a glorified garage sale for profit.  With my local thrift store it goes to local non profit missions.

Made

• Peanut Butter Pie.  Rob ate half of this so I assume it was good. 

1 brick cream cheese
1/2 cup peanut butter
1/2 cup sugar
1 tub cool whip
1 tsp vanilla

Mix together and pour into a pre made pie crust (I used a graham cracker one).  Refrigerate until ready to serve.

I do feel like it didn't set super well, but it was still really yummy.

• Shake n Bake Pretzel Chicken.  I've made chicken before but this was the first time trying this.  I sliced the chicken thin before coating it and it made it really crispy.

• Chicken drumsticks made with just salt, pepper and olive oil and baked.  Again I've made drumsticks before but on the grill so this was a very simple way and Rob said they were good. 

Paid off

Home Depot card and a good chunk of the Amazon visa

Bible
Still right on track with finishing in a year

Date:
It was our 7th wedding anniversary so we went to Indianapolis for the night.  We didn't do much there- we walked around, had dinner and relaxed but it was nice.  It was a 4 1/2 hour drive but we had nice weather mostly (as opposed to at home where they had an ice storm!).  We also went to Ikea and spent lots of money.

March Goal Update

Debt: So we did pay off some, but it was paid off this week (April), so we actually didn't pay any off in March.  I'll update it next month. 

Books:   I read two books this month.  Both have some romance, but weren't to raunchy.   Swept Away I read in a day, the other took a week or so, but it was an audio book. 

Food
Big Mac Sliders:  I'm not sure I've ever actually had a big mac, but these sliders were amazing!  I used this recipe and I ate at least half of them.  I will absolutely make them again.  I didn't have the dill relish it called for, but I had sweet relish and dill oil so I made it work. 

Potato Skins. I made potato skins for the first time.  I ate them all, but they were a lot of work.  I don't think I baked the potatoes long enough, and then didn't crisp them enough.  I may or may not make them again.

Bible: Still right on track with getting through the Bible this year.   I struggled a lot because some of what I've been working through was so legalistic and rules and details and it was hard to focus on. 

Sweets: This is probably going to be my hardest goal to work on.  I eat all the sweets all the time. I had given up chocolate for lent, but then ate lots of jelly beans and ice cream so...

Date:  I kept bugging Rob about a date, but it didn't happen this month because by the end of the month sickness ran through the house.  We did go out with my sister and her husband so we sort of had a date.  We still had fun, but it wasn't the solo time I wanted.  Hoping for something fun for our anniversary.