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Now I know it is the beginning of Meteorological Spring but I live in NEPA....
Sunday morning, along with today, it was 16 degrees here!!
With 50 degrees predicted for Wednesday!!
And snow showers later in the week....
Typical NEPA weather for March and one can not forget that some of our best snow storms, like the Blizzard of 1993, came in March....
So I really don't look at it being Spring here until April even though we can still get snow in April too....
With that being said and since Easter is late this year, April 20th, I am not hurrying to decorate for Easter....
What I am doing first will be decorating the china cupboard for Saint Patrick's Day which I will start to do today so that will be my next post on THURSDAY!!
I am going to start with a review of my Goals for February that I listed in my post about my Quarterly Goals and Possibilities........
As I mentioned before, my Goals are more like a monthly To Do List....
These were February's Goals....
FEBRUARY
Pack away Christmas in the Sitting Room, Upstairs Hall, Bathroom, Bedroom and Craft Room
Well, I did get to pack away Christmas in the Bathroom and returned it to "normal" .....
And I also packed away Christmas from the upstairs Hall and returned that to "normal" , displaying my Lustreware Collection there.........
Give all these rooms a good cleaning before redecorating them with the "normal" decor for these rooms
I did this with the Bathroom and Hall
I did manage to pack up the Christmas decor around my Victorian Lady Tree in the bedroom as I packed that and the hall Christmas decorations away into 2 tubs....
For now, the Tree is still decorated...
I chose to leave Joe's Pittsburgh Corner as is for now.....
My son Joey and I will be going through everything here in the Summer, deciding what will be kept and what will be donated to friends and family or to Salvation Army....
I also put the Craft Room and Sitting Room on hold until April as I want to see if I somehow can store the tubs with the Christmas decorations in those rooms in the closets of those rooms now that my clothes are out of those closets....
Decorate the Den China Cupboard and the area around it for Saint Patrick's Day - Moved to March's List...
Work on my Financial plan for next Winter - accomplished and I will be doing a post on this soon...
Start walking for exercise again - NOPE....weather still not cooperating but I know that is no excuse...
Drink at least 64 oz. of water a day - Yep!!
Call my Tax Preparer and get paper work to him - Moved to March
Stick to my Wellness Program - Trying to do so but I needed to give myself some grace on this because of my friend Anne Marie's passing and Funeral
I am a stress eater and I lapsed for a bit but I am now back on track with my Intermittent Fasting...
Like I said, in February, I was dealt that one last blow from 2024, as she was diagnosed in 2024, of my friend Anne Marie's passing and attended her Funeral on February 2nd...
I pretty much was not able to do much that week as I needed to give myself some Grace...
So my revised Goals List for March now looks like this.....
MARCH
Decorate the Den China Cupboard and the area around it for Saint Patrick's Day
And Call my Tax Preparer and get paper work to him
Plan for our family Easter dinner celebration
Pack away Valentine's in Living Room and Dining Room
Pack away Winter decor in Kitchen and Den...
Decorate Living Room, Dining Room and Kitchen for Easter
Redecorate the Powder Room with regular decor after packing away Snow Buddy and Winter decor
Redecorate the Den with regular Americana decor
Contact a landscaper friend to clean up the slope in front of my house and put down mulch for me
Pack way and take down to my storage shed all my outside Winter decor..
Drink at least 64 oz. of water a day
Stick to my Wellness Program
Two of the things that I listed on my January Goals List that I did not yet accomplish are....
See Wicked in a movie theater - I changed this and will be adding it to March's list as I will watch it on Peacock when it starts to stream on March 21st...
Another one was this and I will be FINALLY using my new Crock Pot today!!
I will be making a chicken and rice recipe that I saw on a FB Reel....
It is already in the crock pot!!
I will let you know how it comes on in my next post on THURSDAY!
So that is where I stand with the Goals and hopefully, I will get to check off all of March's.....
I also want to share a few New Buys....
I went to Dollar Tree a few days ago to pick up the tablecloths that we use for the monthly breakfasts at my church that I donate and could not help myself.....
Just a few things.....
For my Front Porch.....
I like that it is metal and I will spray it with a sealer...
I am a sucker for anything bottle brush and I could not resist the yellow ones for my Kitchen!!
I bought it online from Boscov's ...
It was originally marked $79.99, on sale for $49.99 but used a coupon and got 5% off small appliances so it was only $47.99....
Amazon is selling the exact same one for $69.99!!
I did not want a big one as I will only be using it for 2 of us....
And I think it will possibly save me some money when it comes to my electric bill rather then firing up the oven for a half hour to make frozen fries, tater tots or mozzarella sticks...
I will report back on how I like it...
I returned to Lowe's a few things that the guys who hooked up my new washer and dryer did not need and I bought these 2 items with my credit while there....
I had mentioned in a previous post that I was going to use this Grout Paint Pen on the grout in my upstairs Bathroom like I did in my Kitchen....
I started the project but the paint pen I had ran out of paint so I needed another one to complete the project in the upstairs Bathroom....
And I bought this spray paint with the Egg Topiary project in mind...
Stay tuned....
Also as I look at this color, I realized that it is the color of my patio furniture out in the back patio!!
Hmmmmmm.......
My son Joey gifted me an Amazon Gift Card for my Birthday and after watching a You Tube video where someone recommended getting rechargeable batteries and a charger if you use a lot of battery operated candles and fairy lights...
I do spend a lot of money on batteries especially around the Holidays so as part of my Plan for next Christmas, I decided to order a charger, using my gift card...
It came with 4 AA batteries and 4 AAA batteries which I am now using to see how long they work for....
I will keep you posted on this too....
And with that, I will end this post.....
I hope you will stop by to visit again on THURSDAY when I hope to be sharing some Saint Patrick's Day decor!!
Thanks to those who took the time out of their busy day to spend a little bit of time with me!!
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I'm a stress eater too, and my stress does not like broccoli. So having to be very careful -- it has been a stressful time. But you're chugging along on those goals. Well done.
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