October Goal Check

1. Complete at least 1 crafty project per month.

It was a good month to be Ramona. Our crafts (and our normal lives) revolved around her exponentially more than normal in October. We crafted our little hearts out for her airplane birthday (and here) with printables  (Nick’s crafty contribution and gift to you). Hey it was even featured on apartment therapy. More importantly our baby turned 3. Yikes!

I also whipped up an airplane for her Amelia Earhart costume. I guess our crafts were also very airplane focused this month too. Whatevs. She looked adorable and did considerably well walking around getting candy for us. Of course people were telling her how cute she was, so I’m sure that encouraged her continue carrying the plane. It wasn’t heavy just bulky.

2.. Read at least 1 book per month.

I decided the last week of October that I should get a book fitting for Halloween since I really had to get on reading a book for this month. I went with The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman. You know I love young adult books (here, here, here, and many more I never blogged about), and I have heard a ton about this book over the years. It won the Newbery Medal and been on several must read lists.

I did not like the way it started with the murder of Nobody Owens’ (main character) whole family. I have to remind myself that this is fantasy. The whole point is to set an unrealistic stage in which characters deal with typical human emotions and struggles. Overall it’s a wonderful story about a boy who grows up in a graveyard parented by ghosts. Sounds strange I know. It is, but there are also sweet moments that illustrate the hope of life and the love of a family. If you can get past the sadness of the intro (I think that’s harder for adults specifically parents), you will enjoy the story.

3. Do more fun things with Ramona.

I already admitted that this month revolved around Ramona, so I will just pick 1 of the awesome things that happened. We did some post birthday ice skating with Macie. Ramona was really tired from her party the day before, so she wasn’t really into skating. Then she saw how much fun Macie was having and jumped on the bandwagon. It was very tiring going around twice with two 3 year olds, but we made it. We followed it up with bounce houses to wear the girls out even more. Tired kids = fun times

4. Journal everyday.

I gave up on journaling. Yes that’s right I didn’t even make it a whole year with this goal. I figured I would just blog on the life side of things on here instead. I thought I was doing really good, but I just checked and have only done 3 this month. Well I am behind for sure. I need to share about the state fair, the Dallas Arboretum, a Halloween party, and probably tons more. Of course you can check out what life stuff is going on here via the tab on the menu bar, but it won’t show up in google reader. We decided not to post it on facebook anymore either since the more you post the less it shows up in people’s feed. Bummer.