Good Days Are Worth Remembering {Wednesday was a GREAT DAY}

Wednesday was a good day.  Here's what I wrote about it on Wednesday.

We went up Thursday to take a look.  Here is our lovely downstairs.

It's been a good day. On Tuesday we had a staging company stage our house that is for sale and it looks awesome! The stager sent me a photo stream of pictures from the work she did at our home. I was just blown away. I have never seen our house look so great.  It makes me want to live there again. Today those pictures will make it to the website where our house is advertised on line! I am really hoping that it drives new people to come up and take a look. Our realtor has also committed to holding an open house where it will be advertised in advance.

But there's another reason why today is so good. This morning I received an email stating that I was accepted to hang a show of my photography at a local public gallery. I submitted a proposal in early August.  It went before a committee and they chose me. That feels like a step in a very good direction.

Wait, there is more. It was a lovely day in Colorado where the temperature only hit the low 80's and with a bit of wind.  In the shade with a cool breeze it feels mid 70's.  A great day to picnic.  So, we got sandwiches from a local deli and decided to tail gate in the parking lot of the school with my mother who was visiting and my husband who met us there with his big truck and a cushy camping insert in the covered flatbed.  Don't worry, we had another reason to be there.  We also attended an open house.  Si will be going to a Montessori pre-school this fall. Today we met all three of his teachers.  That's right.  Three teachers in one classroom. . . and they were lovely. To top it off, we also visited a splash park afterward where the boys got to play around in fountains of water. They fell asleep on the way home- Heaven.

I just can't remember having so many positive memorable things happening all in one day. What a blessing.  It was great!

Goal Setting 2013

Everyone has a post about Goal Setting right?  It's important.  If you don't set goals then you can't measure progress.  I guess sometimes it's scary since putting them down on paper may seem like writing a contract.  What if they don't get done?I'm going to try to think of it as a contract to myself or even an investment.  It changes the feeling from overwhelming to inspiring.  I want and need to be good to myself.  And for me, these goals set me up for working towards or through something so that I'll be better when it's accomplished or at least attempted.

Sometimes when you are working through something you thought was important you uncover something else that becomes the focus instead.  I think that's OK too.  Granted, if every goal changed mid-stream there wouldn't be much point to it.  Setting multiple goals makes it very likely that I will accomplish some, maybe change a few and in every case uncover something in myself.

Here is my list of 20 Goals for 2013.  I wrote out my list and then sorted them out into categories to make sure there was a well rounded list.  I will review them again in June. 

Travel
Visit 2 National Parks
Go Hiking with the boys

Fitness
Run a race or a fun run
Take a Zumba class
Get fitted with good running shoes - maybe at Boulder Running Company

Photography/Illustrator
Get my work flow down for dealing with editing photo- suggestions please!
Finish all the projects in Illustrator Classroom in a Book
Try digital scrap booking- (Elise Blaha's blog has pretty cool tips for this...Here is where I think I will start. And Here too! and Becky Higgins has something special to try as well!)
Take one brother photo each month- where brothers are happily enjoying each others company

Family
Learn to make an Americano with my espresso machine
Consistently write down meals I've made in my meal calendar
Get that baby sleep trained!

Entertainment
Go see a Film on the Rocks
Go to a concert at Red Rocks Amphitheater

Blogging
Write at least 24 blog posts (that's 2 a month).
Blog my each project from my book while making edits
Make a chapter list for a new book of 10 new projects
Make a "blog friend"

Me Time
Complete reading the bible in full on my phone.  I'm already on day 30!
Make at least one date with a friend outside the house every month

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What are your goals?

How do you set them?

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