Mission of the Month August 2011

So I have decided to jump back on the bandwagon so to speak and continue my missions with Mama Jenn in her Missions of the Month.  If you are just now following my blog let me catch you up to speed.  Mission of the Month was started by Mama Jenn in hopes that we can use our blogs to motivate ourselves.  We are to make a list of our goals (aka missions) we would like to accomplish for the month - just for one month.  At the end of the month we share with others in the group whether we succeded or were a complete failure.  It has been really great to read what others have posted and it has also given me ideas as to what I could/should accomplish in the future.  With that being said, it is hard to believe that the last time I posted with Mama's Mission was in April!  So with summer coming to an end and school starting up this month, my missions will start back up as well.  I only have a few missions I want to accomplish this month and one I am already working on.

1. Get up earlier.  I am not a morning person and that tended to affect our school routine.  School rarely started before 11AM and then of course you have lunch and then after lunch you really lost interest in school, so school was always drug out into early evenings.  I have started to set my alarm for 8:30AM and have actually been getting up!  I set an additional alarm for 9AM to remind me school will be starting at 930AM so I have to get my butt in gear.  Even though we haven't started school, it seems to be working!  
2. Plan our 2011-2012 school year.  Last year I planned our entire first semester.  I made plans for each week which covered every subject and every day.  For each week there was a folder and in each folder there was all of the items we would need for that week - worksheet, craft paper, or even just a note of craft items we would so I could fill the workboxes.  I felt so much better having everything planned and organized.  It made life so much easier and helped me focus on the tasks at hand.  
3. Prepare our hurricane survival kit.  You would think that with my background with the fire department and my current involvement with the CERT program I would have already completed this.  Yeah, well...no.  We are coming up to the peak of hurricane season (August 15 - October 20).  So far we have been lucky, but I have learned 'don't count your chickens before they hatch.'  Don't get my wrong, I am not complaining, but I need to make sure that my family is ready for anything that may come our way.  I have a box that has been in my garage for probably the last 3 years with items for hurricane season.  But 3 years is a long time...

Since I have been feeling so motivated I have added two bonus items.  I would like to accomplish at least one of them, but I will work on these ONLY if I accomplish the original 2 of the original 3 (#1 is a month long goal).

1. Make one scrapbook.  I have wanted to do this for some time and now that I have my Cricut machine I have a little more incentive to do something with it.  In April and May, I attempted to make t-shirts for a float trip we were going on.  Notice I said attempted.  Only one of the 5 turned out and oh it is so darn cute!!  As for the scrapbook, I have a lot of ideas, I just need to follow through with them.  
2. Clean out the master bedroom.  I have done this once before, but well it is back to a messy disaster.  The big thing is we lack storage.  My clothes are folded neatly into two laundry baskets and my dresses are in the closet.  Kevin's clothes are in a built-in dresser and the closet.  Although we are looking for a new home, we really need to deal with the problem at hand.  This project must be done with my husband since quite a bit of it is his stuff!  I honestly think we can do this in one week, it just needs to get done.  

So there you have it.  My missions for the month.  They seem simple but they are things that need to get done.    And I am on a mission...