old 101 in 1001

Bold = completed

• 24/101 done!

Italics = in progress

Start date: January 6, 2013

End Date: October 4, 2015

DOMESTIC GODDESS

1.       Sew a baby quilt

2.       Can something   - Strawberry jam 8/2015

3.       Cook a turkey

4.       Purchase art from a local artist

5.       Compile favorite recipes into a book or binder

6.       Update 72 hour kits

7.       At least once a month cook a nice Sunday dinner.

8.       Host a holiday meal for family.

9.       Try 50 new recipes (27/50)

•  Starbucks Ice Lemon Pound Cake
• Mexican stuffed shells
• Red Lobster style biscuits
• Corn bread recipe from the back of the corn meal container
• Flour tortillas
• Taco casserole
• Chicken enchilada pasta
• Secret fruit salad
• Breakfast pancake
•  Raspberry breakfast rolls
• Snickerdoodle bread
• Crockpot porkchops
• Peanut butter granola bars
• Crockpot applecrisp
• Peanut butter chocolate chip brownies
• Rosemary bread
• Easy no bake peanut butter bars
• Sweet and spicy pork chops 
• Chicken pot pie
• Chicken and asparagus penne
• Raspberry cinnamon rolls
• Crockpot hashbrown casserole
• Wowza Chicken
• Chocolate peanut butter sandwich cookies
• Carmel Icrecream sandwich cake
• Copycat Olive Garden breadsticks
• Chocolate chip oatmeal cookie bars

10.   Keep re-useable grocery bags in my trunk and use them for a month straight.

11.   Learn to eat with chopsticks.

12.   Get a professional family portrait taken.

13.   Start an herb garden.

14.   Buy a car that can fit all of the kids. 3/9/2013

15.   Befriend the neighbors.  Be more social with people who live near us.

16.   Have a dinner party with friends.

17.   Learn to make 10  freezer meals.

18.   Use organic/natural/homemade cleaning products in my home.

19.   Get an allowance/chore chart system together and actually stick with it for at least a year.

HOUSE

20.   Repaint the powder room

21. Make the front bedroom into a nursery. 12/2013

22.   Put a ceiling fan in Isaac’s room

23.   Finish basement

24.   Paint and decorate the master  bedroom

25.   Pour a patio out back.

26.   Get/make an outdoor firepit. 8/2015

27.   Have carpets professionally 5/2015

28. Organize and display Ryan's memorabilia.  12/2013.

29.   Get a grill. 6/2013

30.   Get a stand alone freezer for the garage.

PERSONAL

31.   Find a great shade of red lipstick and feel confident wearing it.

32.   Invest in great fitting undergarments. 3/2015

33.   Read 50 books (32/50)

• Best Friends - Jennifer Weiner
• Then Came You - Jennifer Weiner
• Sybill  Exposed - The Extraordinary Story Behind the Famous Multiple Personality Case -       Debbie Nathan
• Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) - Mindy Kaling
• Sing You Home - Jodi Piccoult
• Keeping Faith - Jodi Piccoult
• Looking for Alaska - John Green
• The Plain Truth- Jodi Piccoult
• The Lone Wolf - Jodi Piccoult
• Always and Forever - Cathy Kelly
• Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
• Paper Towns - John Green
• Brain on Fire - Susannah Cahalan
• The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls
• The Doctor's Wife - Elizabeth Brundage
• The Next Best Thing - Jennifer Weiner
• The Baby Sleep Book - Dr. Sears
• The No-Cry Sleep Solution - Elizabeth Pantley
• I Remember You - Harriet Evans
• The Sleepeasy Solution The Exhausted Parent's Guide to Getting Your Child to Sleep - Jennifer Waldburger and Jill Spivak
• Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates
• I Know This Much is True - Wally Lamb
• Born on a Blue Day - Daniel Tammet
• Walking on Egg Shells - Discovering Strength and Courage Amid Chaos - Lyssa Chapman
• Divergent - Veronica Roth
• Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack - M.E. Kerr
• Mercy - Jodi Piccoult
• The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Age 13 3/4 - Sue Townsend
• The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins
• The Chocolate War - Robert Cormier
• Wild - Cheryl Strayed
• The Good Girl -

34.   Read Les Miserables (can count for 32)

35.   Blow dry my hair every day for a week

36.   Go totally blond again (for a short time, not necessarily indefinitely)

37.   Try being a redhead.

38.   Pay off all credit card debt

39.   Get an “emergency fund” together (amount to be determined later).

40.   Blog every day for a month

41.   Movie theater marathon: three movies in one day

42.   Take a cooking class with Ryan February 2014

43.   Take a self defense class

44.   Send a secret to PostSecret

45.   Unsubscribe myself from all e-mails that clutter my inbox and blogs that clutter my reader - 2/3/2013 

46.   Learn how to tie a tie.

47.   Take a picture in the same place in all four seasons.

48.   Give away at least 20 blank cards as gifts. (3/20 completed)

49.   Purchase a web domain for my blog/cards.

50.   Seriously try to bite my nails less. 7/2013

51.   Watch “It’s a Wonderful Life” with Ryan.  1/2015

FITNESS/HEALTH

52.   Try a spin class.

53.   Give up soda for a month

54.   Log my food intake for 30 straight days.

55.   For a week eat all of the recommended servings of vegetables.

56.   Do a family fitness class at the YMCA.

57.   Ride my bike to work at least 1 time.

58.   Try a pilates class.

59.   Try a hydro-aerobics class.

60.   Stay up to date with dermatologist appointments.

61.   Get a physical. Completed 1/21/2013

62.   Go to the eye doctor. Completed 1/7/2013

63.   Spend a weekend “unplugged”

PROFESSIONAL

64.   Get level 2 certificate - 7/2014

65.   Finish elementary ed certification - 9/2013

66.   Finish REAP application - 5/2015

TRAVEL/CULTURE

67.   Renew my passport

68.   Go on Steel Force with Ryan 6/2015 (not Steel Force but Expedition Everest-- I'm counting it!)

69.   Visit the MOMA in New York DONE 1/2014

70.   Take the kids camping at least 3 times

71.   Go to a drive in theater

72.   Attend 5 plays or musicals - Cinderella Christmas Panto, American Music Theater Christmas Show, Arthur Christmas Panto, 

73. Take a trip to California.

74.   Go to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

75.   Go to the Storming of the Bastille in Philly

76.   Do a Ride the Ducks tour in Philadelphia

77.   Take the kids to the Baltimore Aquarium - 3/9/2013 Done

78.   Take the kids to New York City 8/4/2013  Done

79.   Go to Niagara Falls

80.   Go to the Smithsonian 3 times

81.   Visit ten other museums
          1/19/2013 - Constitution Center Museum (Philadelphia)

82.   Try White Castle

83.   Try Brunish’s

84.   Go to a rally or protest in DC.

85.   Send postcards to friends/family from our travels.

86.   Go to a drag show.

87.   Attend a film festival in Philly.

88.    Go to a mudsale in Lancaster.

89.   Go to the auction with Selena.

90.   Go to Longwood Gardens

91.   Go to a live taping of a TV show. 8/2013 Done

92.   Take the kids snow tubing.

93.   Watch 5 football games with Ryan without complaining.

• Superbowl 47 -  2/3/2012
• Some random game I forgot to document
• Superbowl 48
• Superbowl 49

LOOKING OUTWARD

94.   Pay for the person in the car behind me at Dunkin Donuts. 9/2014

95.   Leave a 100% tip 7/2015 Sunflower Cafe

96.   Send at least 50 cards to friends and family (3/50)

97.   Do something for a charity as a family

98.   Do a Clusters meal

99.   Participate in a benefit walk/run

100.     Find a way to volunteer in Isaac’s school/classroom - 12/2013

101.    Send my mother and mother in law flowers for no particular reason.