Things I need to do (in no particular order of chronology or priority)
Italic = started Strikethrough = completed
Get ready to kick-off Walton County's United Way campaign on August 9
Meet the United Way goal of $300,000 for 2007-2008
Organize my kitchen cabinets
Convince my children to (willingly) give away some of their toys to charity (Hallelujah! A tidy playroom!)
- Replace the 1986 blue tile in my bathroom
Recruit 50 mentors to be trained in our new Walton One-2-One Mentoring Program (now we need 100 more)
Catch up my long-overdue thank-you notes (what better time than Thanksgiving to do this!)
- Find someone who can give me a decent haircut
- Order a pair of navy dress shoes (because navy is coming back, but for me, it never went out) (this should not be so difficult, but it is)
Meet our campaign goal to build a new church
- Get up earlier and go to bed earlier...or maybe not
- Tour Italy and visit the Vatican
Prepare myself emotionally for my younger child to start kindergarten at "big school" (couple of days late)
Prepare myself physically (shopping, organizing, etc.) for both of my children to go back to school
- Invite more people for dinner (or lunch, or coffee)
- Audition for an On Stage play
- Share (thoughts, ideas, resources)
Take Christopher to see the USS Yorktown (5 stars! Highly recommended!)
- Meet Ina Garten
- Move my outdated files to storage
- Charter the Certified Literate Community Program in Walton County
Volunteer for FISH 4 Kids Summer Feeding Program (before it's over!)
- Learn to play the guitar so I can sing camp songs with my kids
- Stain and seal my back deck
- Teach some friends to play dominoes and have a game night
- Learn how to download music to my Treo
- Find the perfect bedding ensemble for my bedroom
- Think of ways to encourage micro-enterprise in Walton County
- Build a table for my son's HO Scale trains
- Do something to contribute to the Monroe downtown development effort
- Finish The Great Bible Adventure
- Learn some new recipes for weeknight suppers
- Disney World again (Daniel wasn't born last time)
- Visit the Georgia Museum of Art with someone who can explain the art to me
- Instill in my sons an appreciation of their brotherhood
- Eat more fruit
- Develop and implement a marketing plan for the Walton Career Academy
Update/replenish our emergency supplies
- Have new draperies made for the dining room
Get my dad to show me all the family historic sites and cemeteries (back to 1803 in Walton County)
- Organize my digital photos
Run (walk) the Peachtree Road Race with Dessa (it was awesome!)
Paint the playroom and the back hall
Help develop Partners in Education system-wide in Walton County schools
- Spend more time with my husband away from kids and work
- Pray the Rosary more often
Clean out my closet and give away everything that doesn't work
- Either get a grip on my wardrobe or
stop pretending to care
- Invite 250 contacts to LinkedIn
- Show Stephanie how to sew a button
- Go to England with my mother and see the places where she grew up
- Take my mother to Washington DC
- Be more patient with my in-laws
- Show Deedra how to use a spring form pan
Think of ways to help Melissa get ready to go to Notre Dame (she's gone! - Go Irish!)
- Try on my wedding gown and be sure it still fits; take corrective action if needed
Develop a new client/project (Need another!)
- Forgive
- Take my kids to Yellowstone
- Go back to Bermuda with my husband
- Karaoke
- Encourage "someone" to enroll in RCIA this fall
- Clean out the "weed bed" in the back yard and turn it into a flower bed
- Spend more time with my sister
- Invest in and learn to use a commercial graphics software program
Take my family tent camping - start with the Great American Backyard Campout
- Meet Bill O'Reilly
- Learn to speak tourist Italian (see #12)
Grow a little vegetable garden in flower pots on the back porch.
- Make sure my friends know how important they are to me
- Make time each day for silence
Learn to edit sound and produce awesome narrated PowerPoints
- Read more books
Go to the Carlos Museum Exhibit with Tamar(We had a great day!)
- Have a screened porch built onto the house
- Exhibit courage
- Learn about wine
- Encourage some retired executives to form a local chapter of SCORE
- Frame an updated photo collage and hang it in my hallway
- Take a pottery class at the Monroe Art Guild
- Show appreciation
- Learn to cook in a Dutch oven - see #66
- Become a (much) better golfer
- Organize some young professional women to begin playing golf
- Get a new set of ladies golf clubs (not goofy pink ones)
- Take more pictures of my children while they are little
- Have a family portrait made
- Listen to Daniel talk about his vivid make-believe stories for as long as he wants to talk
Institute a new family tradition (We've been lighting the Advent Wreath this season)
Find an unusual addition for my antique china collection
- Preserve my children's baby keepsakes
- Keep my car cleaner
- Get/Stay in touch with high school and college friends
- Focus on contentment
- Stop procrastinating
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