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| Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. ~ Carl Bard |
See goals from 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013 and 2012!
If I have a penchant for one thing, it’d be lists (and goals to go along with said lists). There’s great satisfaction in putting in the work and being rewarded by checking the task off, then moving on to the next. So, every year around this time, I like to look back at what we have been able to do with the year we’ve been given, and make plans for the future. Realistically, I know I’m not going to be able to get everything done–maybe never in this life–but it’s fun to dream and plan and work toward making things happen. New Year’s Day is one of the pivot points in life we can count on and is a chance to reset with renewed vigor. We’d love to hear what you’re looking forward to in 2020!
The Rehomesteaders’ 2020 Goals
Personal (mostly just for fun!)
Design family mottoNow to print it…Make Do and Be Grateful is our mantra!- Sign older kids up for 4H
Make pasta from scratchI finally did it! Yay! Easy Egg Noodles 19 Mar 2020Visit YellowstoneWe made it! Yellowstone was amazing! Yellowstone 10 Aug 2020- Attend a pow wow
- Take a helicopter ride
- Sign up kids for and complete a summer reading program
- Be a participant on The Amazing Race
- Learn to paint with oils
- Index 1,000 names
- Make a custom bed frame
- Visit a black sand beach
- Visit all 50 states
- We’ve lived in Nebraska, Iowa, Texas, and Indiana and have visited Kentucky, Illinois, Michigan and Ohio. Recently, we visited Tennessee, Alabama and Florida! Add South Dakota, Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, and Colorado! More to come soon (I hope!)
- Learn to water ski
- Visit every continent
- Make shoes
- Write a melodrama
- Attend the filming of a game show
- Enter an art competition
- Learn to be on time 😁
- Cook at least one new meal once a month
- January–Crock Pot Sausage and Potato Soup
- February
- March
- April From Scratch Sour Cream Chicken Enchilada
- May
- June
- July–Sausage and Creamy Tomato Pasta
- August–Creamy Mac ‘n’ Cheese
- September
- October–Tentacle Pot Pie
- November
- December
- See the redwoods
- Donate hair
- Make ten different types of bread 2 Feb 2020 Sally Lunn Bread
- Become a better knitter
- Start the “We Love You” project
Get professional family portraitsYay! We didn’t miss this year! Family Photos 2020- Take a family backpacking trip
- Master watercolors
- Refinish the piano
- Enter a writing competition
- Build a porch swing
- Construct a birdbath
- Volunteer as a family
Donate breast milkDone! Every Part of Me 15 Jan 2020- Build a teeter-totter
Take a family hikeWe did several through the year! Like Mission for Morels 3 June 2020- Sell something on Etsy (or another similar online craft site)
- Build or purchase food storage shelves
- Go canoeing
- Make a permanent Family Home Evening chart
- Attend The Nutcracker
Donate bloodOnly made it once this year, but it was something! 🙂- Blow glass
- Downhill ski
- Take a train ride
- Learn to crochet
- Take a family vacation to Table Rock Lake in the Ozarks
- See the Northern Lights
- Build a piece of furniture
- Set up a roadside stand with the kids
- Be a contestant on Wheel of Fortune
- Take up photography
- Go back to Montreal (and swing by NYC since we’d be close anyway!)
- Enter something in a State Fair
- Paint a portrait
- Be an extra in a movie (preferably on horseback)
- Attend a major music concert (other than MoTab )
- Go to the Kentucky Event…again!
- Take up pottery
- Buy a boat
- Buy a 4-wheeler/farm vehicle
- Take a tropical family vacation
- Restore Jack’s Mustang
- Invent something functional and useful
- Visit France (and I suppose the rest of Europe looks pretty fascinating too, haha!)
- Rock a short haircut
- Sign the girls up for art camp
- Attend a theatrical performance
- Attend a melodrama
- Take another self-defense class with the kids
- Make or buy a dressform
Go on a family bike rideMade several fun trips with the older girls this year! Kate is Eight 7 Oct 2020- Ride on the Polar Express
- Design and sew an outfit
- Sew a quilt
- Go to a theme park
- Digitize mission and family photos
- Make everyone a personalized stocking
- Have a sugar free week
- Participate in mule run
- Have a year of food storage
- Make the girls dresses
- Visit an observatory
- Start the girls on piano lessons
- Make homemade cheese
- Be able to do the splits….
- Be able to do a bridge kick over
- Prepare a six-generation family history chart
Home Improvements
- Kids’ Rooms
- Carpet or flooring
- Paint
- Replace doors
- Our Room
- Carpet or flooring
- Paint
- Replace doors
- Kitchen
- Paint
- Build shelf for farm supplies
- Build broom closet
- Install new door handle
- Family room
- Paint
- New blinds
- Downstairs room
- Paint
- Tile
- Carpet or flooring
- Build toy shelves
- Build coat/shoe rack
- Build a closet
- New exterior door
- Hang a world map
- Decorate “picture wall”
- Storage room
- Hang drywall
- Paint
- Flooring
- Build shelves
- Kids’ Bath
- Install double vanity
- Hang larger mirror
- Install bathtub
- Sitting Room
- Refinish floor
- Build half wall
- New banister
- New curtains and area rug
- Exterior
- Paint doors
- New front door
- New deck/patio in back
- Backyard fence
- Build a playground
- Paint garage doors
- Install gates and fencing at front of the property
- Make a bigger beach for the pond
- Cut down dead ash trees in the forest
- Redo landscaping
- Paver sidewalk out front
- Install jacuzzi tub
- Pour driveway loop
- Master Bed and Bath
- Build new garage
- Build master bed
- Build master bath
- ETC, ETC, ETC
Farm Life and Animals
- Gallop a horse on the beach
- Register Dancer
- Rim ride at the Grand Canyon
- Trail ride in Yellowstone
- Build a floating dock for the pond
- Purchase a horse trailer
- Purchase an auger
- Purchase hay baling equipment
- Professional horse portraits…again!
- Take Stoney and Dancer on a trail ride
- Dye, spin and knit an item from homegrown wool
- Tin barn and other outbuildings
- Build riding arena
- Purchase skidloader
- Enclose larger chicken run, install swings, dust bath
- Get a peacock and peahen
- Install automatic waterers for the cows
- Fix paddock fencing
- Fix back forest fencing
- Build goat enclosure
- Get some goats! Or maybe sheep…
- Purchase a child’s saddle
- Build a bench to overlook the pond
- Get a harness and cart for the horses
- Take the girls to a leadline class
Tap trees for maple syrupThank goodness we get something to eat in winter 17 Feb 2019 Produces in WinterPlant a gardenAlready looking forward to next year! It’s a Start 22 Sept 2019- Construct a woodshed
- Build a greenhouse
- See wild horses
Plant an alfalfa or hay fieldGot our hay cut twice this season. 21 July 2019 Four Miracles- Plant a berry patch
- Get another hive
Purchase/cut hay for winter21 July 2019 Four Miracles- Purchase a horse trailer
- Teach Stoney and Dancer to pull a cart or carriage
- Get pigs
- Breed Dancer
- Cut cattle on horseback
- Run barrels
- Go on a cattle drive
- Buy a log splitter
- Swim with a whale shark
Have yearly wood supply for fireplaceThanks to the kids for their help! 17 Nov 2019 Better TogetherGet a beef steerWe welcomed Winston, Hashi, and Smokey!- Swim with whale shark
- Ride/Work horses 52+ times in a year
- Build a goat/pig, etc enclosure
- Build a round pen
- Ride an elephant (for more than three minutes…)
- Feed sharks/dive cage with sharks
- Go scuba diving
- Hold a koala
- Hold a sloth
- See the salmon run
- Watch a cheetah chase down prey
- Do a polar bear expedition
- Swim with dolphins…again!
- Take a whale watching expedition
- Be in a dog sled race
- Ride an ostrich
- Ride a camel
Health, Fitness, and Sports
Lose baby weightI did, but…- Run another 5k
- Run a family race
- Run in a Fun Run, Color Run, etc
- Run a 10k
- Run a half marathon
- Run a full marathon
- Complete a triathlon
- Take Dancer to a show
- Compete in a dressage show
- Compete in a jumping competition (either showjumping or hunter classes)
- Compete in a two-day horse trial
- Compete in a three-day horse trial
- Compete internationally (a girl can always dream...)
Financial
- Pay off Rachael’s student loans
- Pay off Jack’s student loans
Build a one-month emergency fund- Build a six-month emergency fund
- Open a savings account for the kids
- Buy new van (preferably with cash)
- Buy a work truck for the farm
- Pay off mortgage
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Reading and Writing
- Read 25 books in a year–so close! I read 21…unless I count the ones I wrote 😉
- An Unlikely Alliance by Rachel John
- Match Me by Christmas by Lindzee Armstrong
- Managing the Rock Star by Emma St. Clair
- The Twelve Holidates by Emma St. Clair
- Just One Word by Brenna Jacobs
- A Man Worth Shaving For by Michelle Pennington
- The Case of the Curious Canines by Tara Ellis
- At Wit’s End by Kirsten Weiss
- The Cowboy Next Door by Trish Milburn
- Clouds in My Coffee by Julie Mulhern
- Love and Murder in Savannah by Harper Lin
- Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
- Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
- Percy Jackson: The Titan’s Curse by Rick Riordan
- Percy Jackson: The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan
- Dear Dumb Diary: Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jim Benton
- Loving Livvy by Remi Carrington
- 27 Ways to Find a Boyfriend by Shari Tapscott
- A Little Like Romeo by Emily C. Childs
- Blind Dates, Bridesmaids & Other Disasters by Aspen Hadley
- Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck, PhD
- Read 12 chapter books with the kids We read lots of picture books but the older kids read to themselves a lot and the little kids don’t want to sit for something without pictures, so…🤷♀️
Reach 1 million blog pageviewsDid it in 2020!- Reach 1000 FB likes
- Reach 1500 FB likes
- Reach 25,000+ page views in a month
- Attend a book signing
- Get blog professionally designed
Reread The Book of MormonFinished Dec 2020- Reread The Bible
- Reread The Doctrine and Covenants
- Reread The Pearl of Great Price
- Run a Bookbub ad
- Publish an article online or in a magazine
Finish writing a seriesFinished two! Start the Pop Stars series here or Holly Wreath here- Write eight books in a year
- Hit a bestseller list (USA Today, NYT, etc)
- Become a hybrid author
Master Vellum/book formattingJack set me up and now I can do my own books!- Streamline newsletter (segment, tag, optimize, etc)
- Keep Amazon rank above 50k
- Hire a personal assistant
- Have book turned into a movie
- Update website
- Release a wide series
- Record all books for audiobooks
- Redo YA horse and dystopian series
- Do an author collaboration
- Get books into a bookstore
- Get books into a library
- Write an average of 2k a day for the whole year
- Write a book with the children
- Write a book proposal for The Rehomesteaders Memoir
- Publish The Rehomesteaders Memoir
- Write a children’s picture book
- Illustrate a children’s picture book
- Publish a children’s picture book
- Write a young reader chapter book
- Publish a young reader chapter book
- Write a middle-grade book
- Publish a middle-grade book
- Write a young adult novel
- Publish a young adult novel
Write an adult fiction novelPublish an adult fiction novel
What are your 2020 goals?
