Goals for 2016

Each year at this time I take a look at what I have accomplished in the previous year and look ahead to the coming year with great anticipation of what I would like to complete. Being a bit ADHD, I tend to dream BIG or not at all. Its All or Nothing. Feast or Famine. When will I learn to balance some of the things I am doing and some of the things I want to do? I do not handle accountability well. Well, I don't really try and avoid committing to stuff or volunteering in case I  forget or don't have time or just don't want to do it. But I ramble.

I have been away from home 9 times in the past year. Three times to visit my daughter, Australia's AQC, overnight with all 3 of my sisters, Bennington Vermont, Shipshewana, Indiana, England and Poland. And even a 4 day business trip with my husband to Holmes County PA. Next week I fly out to my daughter's for 3 weeks as we await the birth of her second baby.  And I am planning a ministry trip to India possibly in March. Most times when I travel, I take along several prepared applique blocks to work on in those little moments and I have gotten a lot of blocks done this way. That and a text book or two for the self-paced on-line doctorate I am working on. It has no deadlines so I am moving very slowly. 

One of the biggest personal goals for the year is to finally realize the 30 year dream of having my first book published. I completed the edit revisions today and will re-submit it as soon as I figure out how to attach the file using Windows 10. Need I say more?

I completed and quilted and gifted my CCCQ quilt. That is occasion for applause! Now to do it again with at least one more this year. My quilting focus for the past 2 years has been hand appliqueing sampler blocks for several quilts and machine appliqueing for others. So-a lot of blocks. Time to get some of them completed and quilted.

So goals for 2016

     1. Publish my book.
     2. Complete at least 1 of my big applique quilts, quilt it and bind it. I choose Ben Biggs.
     3. Quilt my Dear Jane Quilt and bind it with narrow binding on all those scallops.
     4. Lose the 22 lb I did not last year with  my goal of losing 40.
     5. Have fun more often.
     6. Spend more time with the grand kids.
     7. Laugh more.
     8. Sing louder.
     9. Buy less new fabric.
   10. Do the 40-bags-in-40-days challenge for Lent.
   11. Design a layout for each of the three $10 quilts and complete them.
   12. Complete coursework for doctorate. Then the dissertation, but I will need some goals for 2017.

Blessings,
Chris