“You can never conquer the mountain. You can only conquer yourself.” – James Whittaker {mountaineer}
My to-do list is growing and growing. There’s something about the beginning of the year, isn’t there? I mentioned some of the things I had to do here. And I started pondering some of the other things I want to accomplish this year:
- Learn how to take better photographs {I’m so serious about documenting our life. I am pretty sure that I need a new lens.}
- Get some more curriculum written. It may be my grandchildren who use it, but there we are…
- Get through all of the recipes in Mrs. Beeton. {no, seriously}
- Design and sew some clothes for the family. I’m so weary of trying to find things that fit both our bodies, and that are my notion of good-looking and practical.
- On the Farm: Design our veggies gardens and feed crop fields, schedule tapping for the birches, and decide what to make the remaining trees into.
- Try to come to some conclusion about changes to one of our businesses.
- Schedule some workshops, talks, and classes at the farm {cooking, sewing/handcrafts, kids’ classes…}
- Put together an apprenticeship/intern program on the farm with the Office of Youth Ministry.
- Decide how much (if any) wedding business I want to pursue this year.
- Make it all pretty and practical.
- Have myself duplicated, or call on {a LOT of} help from my friends…or lower my expectations and accept this as more of a wish list than a to-do list…
What’s on your wish list for 2012?
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Hi! It’s Lisa from the Saint Padre Pio group. What a wonderful blog and what a to-do list! Wow.
I really want to learn how to sew. I had manage a button or a simple hem, but I want to do like you said, be able to make clothing for our family. Luckilly, I still have been able to find modest clothing for our daughter, but it is getting more and more difficult. She is only 8 years old, but even clothing geared toward her age group is so inappropriate. sigh. 
I will happily read about life on your farm. I was born and raised in a big city and now live in suburbia. I so dream of having land– land where our boys can actually throw a ball and not hit someone’s house, lol. I just doubt it will be happening any time soon, as my husband works here and we wouldn’t be able to move the couple of hours north of here to find a nice, reasonable plot of land. But I can certainly live vicariously through the adventures of others!
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Hope you have a great weekend!
God bless,
Lisa
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