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Weekly Tasks: November 8 – November 15, 2015

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Completed Tasks From Last Week

  • Project Oceanology homeschool trip
  • Christmas wrapping paper organized (two rolls ordered from a fundraiser)
  • Jurassic World movie night 
  • Thanksgiving decorations put up
  • Blog two recipes

Tasks for November 8 – November 15, 2015. These are in addition to my normal daily tasks.

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Home

  • Continue purging items in attic
  • Clean up leaves in the yard – John

Food

  • Healthy snack making day
  • Freezer meals

Family

  • Daily Bible reading and scriptural study at home

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Holiday

  • Begin working on rustic fabric garland for Christmas Tree (find fabric online)
  • Make list of homemade gifts needed for this year
  • Yearly family photos
  • Begin looking at Christmas card options (sales and codes)

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Homeschool

  • Begin Dinosaur unit (phonics, math, sight words)
  • Continue daily phonics in Explode the Code
  • Continue daily math in Kumon workbook
  • Continue our art dvd each week
  • Prepare all items for our Operation Christmas Child event on the 18th
  • Story time at the library
  • Continue working on science fair project
  • Field trip to Farmer’s Cow
  • Cookies for Vets

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Blog

  • Two new recipes
  • Blog weekly task list

Happy Homemaking,

The Joyful Homemaker

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Weekly Tasks 12/8 – 12/15

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My task list is much smaller these days but really, it is nice to have a task list again. Many things are accomplished slowly and that is ok. 🙂 Below are my, “in addition to everyday housekeeping,” tasks.

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Completed Tasks From Last Week

Tree decorated

Gutters Cleaned

Resume lessons / Homeschool after two months off

Go to Christmas With Woodland Santa at DPNC (http://www.dpnc.org/)

Work with ALL medical facilities to pay off medical bills and organize a solid payment plan

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Below are my tasks for this week:

FAMILY

Christmas craft with Jack – toilet paper bird seed tube

Trip to Mystic Aquarium

Go on walks

John and Jack time each day

Work on Jack’s potty training each day

HOUSEKEEPING

Organize and clean laundry room

Make storage space in laundry room for craft supplies

Sweep garage

All newborn clothes packed away

Jack Ongoing tasks – help mom make dinner, make bed, pick up toys, help with Wesley, help get the mail each day.

HOMESCHOOL

Read books – Bring out Christmas Books

Work on list for Santa

Coloring pages

Christmas Play dough

Nativity scene and Spirit of Christmas

Hang chalkboard!! 🙂

HOLIDAY

Wrap gifts

Complete necessary gift purchasing

Work on Christmas food menu

Put up Christmas window decals with Jack

PERSONAL GOALS

Play with boys for one hour every night

List items on Craigslist

 Begin blogging again

Start work on Aldi blog series

Start work on New Year’s Goal blog series

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What are your goals for this week?

Happy Homemaking,

The Joyful Homemaker

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Weekly Tasks 9/9 – 9/15

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Completed Tasks From Last Week

Cleaned up the front porch and packed away all summer toys

Cleaned up the attic and put a bunch of stuff by the curb

Took Jack for a haircut

Played a lot outside

Had two freezer meal sessions

Jack made a background for his fish tank

Purchased more totes for organizing

Put out some Autumn decorations

Read books with Jack each day and evening

Did some crafts with Jack

I did some Christmas shopping

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Below are my tasks for this week:

FAMILY

Play date with Katie and Cole

Gram’s 93rd birthday party

Kid’s craft afternoon at Jess’s

Finish Gram’s birthday present and card

Schedule Jack 3-year photos at JCPenny

HOUSEKEEPING

Put some fresh flowers in the kitchen

Organize refrigerator 

Meal planning  / shopping list

Finish cleaning front hall

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Meeting with mortgage broker

Two more freezer cooking sessions

SEASONAL

Start organizing Jack’s gifts

Start wrapping Jack’s gifts

Brainstorm ideas for “drawing names party” for kiddos

BABY PREPARATIONS

Weekly OB appointment

Pack baby bag

Make Jack’s big brother surprise bag

Purchase a new Boppy, breastfeeding supplies, diapers

HOMESCHOOL

Read books

Play outside

Trip to Denison Nature Center (Jack and Daddy time)

PERSONAL GOALS

Read from Bible

Read something for fun

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What’s on your task or goal list for this week?

Happy Homemaking,

The Joyful Homemaker