Menu Plan Monday

Breakfast:
Cereal
Cereal Bars

Lunch's
Leftovers
Lean Pockets
Sandwiches
Lean Cuisine
100 Calorie Oreo Cakes
Chips

Dinners:
Sunday: Meatloaf with Mashed Sweet Potatoes and Rolls
Monday: Chicken Helper with a Vegetable
Tuesday: Breakfast Skillet with Biscuits
Wednesday: Smoked Sausage with Vegetable and Bread
Thursday: Spaghetti and Meatballs with Garlic Bread
Friday: Turkey Pot Pie with Rolls
Saturday: Fish with Mac N Cheese and Peas

Working On Me Year

This year I decided to be heathly and happier and I started working more on that this week. I started taking a multi vitamin and after a few days I am feeling great. Today I went back to the gym after avoiding it for way too long. I was only able to do 30 minutes but I figured that is a start and I will work up to an hour. I am going to go on the weekends only because the week just doesn't allow for any time at the gym but I will be still working out at home using my Dennis Austin tapes. I am also making sure I take a little time for myself each day to sit and stitch even if it's only 30 minutes. I am also back to reading, something I love to do but put aside for this reason and that reason. I started going to bed a little sooner to at least get in 3o minutes of reading at night. By doing just a little more for myself in the past couple weeks I have felt better and started feeling better about myself. This year I decided it's not about how much weight I want to lose or any other bad habit I may want to break, I just want to be healthier and happier.

Menu Plan Monday

Monday - Hoppin John with Corn Bread

Tuesday - Anything Goes Night (On my own Tuesday and Wednesday)

Wednesday - Anything Goes Night

Thursday - Eat Out

Friday - Steak with Vegetable and Rolls

Dessert - Chocolate Chunk Cookies

January Stitching Goals

Ok here is what I would like to accomplish this month stitching wise.

1. Complete half of a page for Cirque des Circles. There are six pages total and my goal is to complete half a page each month to complete this piece in one year.

2. Complete Colonial Houses

3. Complete one santa from Old World Santas I

4. Participate in January Stitch A Thon

A New Year and A Finish!

I made my goal of finishing Country Cottage Needleworks The Bakery before midnight last night. This was stitched on 32ct Lugana Cocoa using DMC threads and blue beads for the muffins instead of French Knots. I started this at the end of the year 2006 and finished it on 12/31/08. I will be framing it in a black frame and hanging it in my kitchen. I have never been more glad to finish a piece and this was a simple piece but for some reason I just had a lot of hang ups on it.

Stitching Plans 2009

On this last day of 2008 I am looking forward to 2009 and my stitching goals.

2008 WIP
1. Mirabilia Thanksgiving Harvest Fairy
2. Mirabilia Easter Fairy
3. Dragon Dreams Dragonlets 12 Months
4. Little House Needleworks Colonial Homes
5. HomeSpun Elegance The Stitcher
6. Ursula Michaels Seasonal Birdhouses
7. Lavendar and Lace Celtic Christmas
8. Passione Ricamo Enchanted Fairy
9. Jeremiah Junction Village Sampler

2009 Projects
1. Ink Circles Cirque des Cercles
2. Mirabilia New Year's Fairy
3. Mirabilia Valentine Fairy
4. Mirabilia Christmas Elf
5. Country Cottage Needleworks The Needlework Shop
6. Little House Needleworks Liberty Hill Inn
7. Prairie Schooler Old World Santas I and II
8. Mirabilia Queen of Freedom

That is all I have for now but I have plenty of other charts to start and even more I want to acquire. I am hoping that this year I will be able to complete my goals and even be able to frame the ones I have finished or finish in some fashion.

The Bakery

I started Country Cottage Needleworks The Bakery at the end of 2006 and with this and that happening I am just now almost finished with it and determined to finish it by midnight New Year's Eve. I am so close to being finished and I will be back New Year's Day to let you know if I made my goal or not.