{ To Do List & New Niece Update }

I loved the idea of this ‘balanced’ to-do list by Shannon. Mine tend to only have the housework type stuff. Clearly those other areas are just as important in life. It’s taken me a whole week to put one together myself but now that it’s done I can just make a few changes each week and swap out the papers and elements every now and then to make it fun. I felt like to really stick to this I’d have to make it personal. I think I pretty much kept the same categories but I’m not a mom so Shannon’s original didn’t fully apply. LOVE the idea though Shannon so thank you sooo much for posting this. You can download a free one to fill out yourself daily, weekly or however often you’d like from Shannon’s blog. You’ll have to scroll down aways (that’s how long it took me to find the idea and make one myself).

I decided to do mine in weekly Friday thru Thursday lists. One, because I finally finished it today and tomorrow happens to be Friday, and two, because I tend to get more done on the weekends so I figured that way I won’t be discouraged half way through the week when I’ve barely checked anything off. A couple of the things on my list I want to do a certain number of times per week so I put #’s behind the item so I can cross them off and then check them once I’m done with it for the week. I aslo included a few reminders in different areas of things I should do each day. For now I plan to print them each week and probably post it on my fridge but I’ve got some ideas for possibly either incorporating it into my desktop or maybe as a link from my blog as sortof a pressure to keep up on it if others are checking in on how I’m doing for the week. Not that anyone else would likely care but the possibility of it is pressure enough. :) Gotta figure out how much hassle that would be to repost each day with the newly accomplished tasks checked off. Maybe if someone in the digital designing world could design some fun check marks for just this sort of thing – hint hint. :)

In other news, my sister Amanda is currently in the hospital hopefully about to have my brand new niece any time now. They induced a little before noon today and I haven’t gotten a call yet (as of 7:00 pm) but hopefully I’ll be able to go meet her yet tonight. I came down with a nasty cold yesterday and have felt much much worse all day today. Spent most of the day sleeping to catch up from tossing and turning all night last night. Soooo, little baby H is probably gonna have to meet her favorite Aunt Shawny for the first time wearing a goofy hospital mask. It also means I won’t be able to kiss that brand new super soft baby skin. What a terrible time to be so sick. :( Anyway, please pray that the delivery goes well and that the new baby (name yet to be announced) is healthy. I’ll be posting the big announcement with pictures hopefully tonight or first thing tomorrow. :)