Projects

My sister recently started writing in her blog again as well, but she's on a slightly different journey. She's making her own almond milk, almond butter and has eliminated all processed foods from her family's diet. She's also going to be planting her own garden and raising her own meats.

That's not my project, not something I feel passionate about, but power to her. I love making things from scratch, and there are so many more things I'd love to start making more of! We've done homemade pasta a few times and there's nothing like it! So yummy : ) But I'd like to start making whole wheat - just changing up my flour in a bunch of recipes.

She's started this project to save money, which is something I'm also working on. I saved all my grocery receipts from December and have started tracking my spending. I did up an excel spreadsheet for the month and entered the date, store, amount spent in total, savings made, and amount spent on miscellaneous items. Now my goal is to spend a little less each month. It's pretty easy to spend less in January than you did in December, but I was shocked to see how little I spent on gifts from the grocery store! Mostly because I purchased most of Nate's gifts online and we visited Toy Traders for the boys Christmas gifts. Plus my family did not exchange gifts at all this year, not even with the kids so we saved a tonne. We sent gifts to our nieces on Nate's side, but used Discovery Toys I know they will LOVE!

So here's to one of my 2011 goals: Get addicted to saving money!

Some others:

Spend more time with friends and family.

Make sure my husband and son's know how important they are to me

Exercise more (I know, SO original!)

Become a Team Leader with Discovery Toys by June 30th

Spend an hour each week improving organizational systems (which at this point, do not exist!)

xoxo