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New Year, New Habits: checking in, late January

School has been back in session for three weeks now, and I'm trying to get myself into some good routines and habits. 

It's going ok.

I'm eating a tiny bit better, maybe?  More salad, less dessert? 

I am keeping up with couch to 5K -- 3 weeks done, a race chosen at the end of March (not registered yet, because I do have 3 small kids and their schedules and needs to consider, too, but I've got reminders in my calendar of when the last chance to register with the discount and the t-shirt is).

I cleaned out one area in my house each day the first week everyone else was back at school.  Last week and this week, I did not.  I already can't remember why I gave myself a pass last week, but this week, it was because of the field trip and the beach trip combined with the day off school on Monday.  I gave myself permission not to try to catch up on the cleaning out today, since I spent all of Wednesday and Thursday unpacking, laundering, dishwashing, and decision making at the beach house with my mama, working on getting the house ready for the whole family to enjoy.

I have been making plenty of progress in the craft room.  After finishing "the baby's" quiet book, I took a weekend break to host my best friend's family over the long weekend, and did a LOT of reading about foundation paper piecing, crazy quilts, and quilt-as-you-go.  And between Tuesday and today, I've learned a lot!  I have relatively successfully foundation-paper-pieced six blocks and also improv-pieced one "crazy" square.  And so far, of these blocks, I've quilted to batting three of the seven.  At the moment, I'm feeling very enthusiastic about the scrap quilt progress, but the reality is that there are many projects I want to accomplish this year, and a quilt may or may not actually come to completion.  I'm hopeful that this will be a project I can work on a bit now, then put away for a few weeks, and return to it feeling refreshed and ready to resume.  I'm also hopeful that I will create a big enough variety of types of blocks and squares to easily combine them into a pleasing whole that is a useful size -- at least throw sized, if not bed sized.  I'm also hopeful that I'll find the motivation to get started on the love seat, now that we are not expecting guests for a few weeks.

So the habits....in progress, off to a rocky start, but still time to recover and really get them into a good place before too much more of the year goes by.



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