Year in Review -- 2020

• Wrote everyday at least a minimum of 100 words? YES!!
• Number of days that I wrote 500 words a day: 195 
• Wrote 126,655 words this year
• Be creative
• Tat 12 crosses
• Crochet 1 teapot, 1 teacup, 1 book, 1 snowman, 3 jellyfish, 2 tp ornaments, 16 snowflakes
• Knit
• Sculpt
• Bracelets 4
• Exercise 5 days a week? 7 months with 3 that had mostly
• Read my Bible everyday? yes
• Blog posts that weren't book reviews: 9
• Read 108  books this year

Month in Review -- December

• Wrote everyday at least a minimum of 100 words? yes
• Number of days that I wrote 500 words a day: 0
• Wrote 3916 words this month
• Be creative
• Tat
• Crochet 2 Toilet paper roll ornaments, 13 snowflakes
• Knit
• Sculpt
• Exercise 5 days a week? yes
• Read my Bible everyday? yes
• Blog posts that weren't book reviews: 0
• Read 9 books

Month in Review -- November

• Wrote everyday at least a minimum of 100 words? yes
• Number of days that I wrote 500 words a day: 0
• Wrote 3774 words this month
• Be creative
• Tat
• Crochet 3 snowflakes
• Knit
• Sculpt
• Exercise 5 days a week? no, averaged 3 days
• Read my Bible everyday? yes
• Blog posts that weren't book reviews: 0
• Read 9 books

Month in Review -- October

• Wrote everyday at least a minimum of 100 words? yes
• Number of days that I wrote 500 words a day: 0
• Wrote 3638 words this month
• Be creative
• Tat
• Crochet
• Knit
• Sculpt
• Exercise 5 days a week? no
• Read my Bible everyday? yes
• Blog posts that weren't book reviews: 0
• Read 11 books

Month in Review -- September

• Wrote everyday at least a minimum of 100 words? Yes
• Number of days that I wrote 500 words a day: 1 
• Wrote 3933 words this month
• Be creative
• Tat 1 cross
• Crochet
• Knit
• Sculpt
• Sewed 2 sock monkeys
• Exercise 5 days a week? Yes
• Read my Bible everyday? Yes
• Blog posts that weren't book reviews: 1
• Read 8 books

Month in Review -- August

• Wrote everyday at least a minimum of 100 words? yes
• Number of days that I wrote 500 words a day: 15
• Wrote 9921 words this month 
• Be creative
• Tat 
• Crochet 1 Jellyfish
• Knit
• Sculpt
• Exercise 5 days a week? yes 
• Read my Bible everyday? yes
• Blog posts that weren't book reviews: 0
• Read 9 books

Month in Review -- July

• Wrote everyday at least a minimum of 100 words? yes
• Number of days that I wrote 500 words a day: 19
• Wrote 11,622 words this month
• Be creative
• Tat -- 3 crosses
• Crochet -- 2 jellyfish
• Knit
• Sculpt
• Exercise 5 days a week? no, but 3 weeks I did
• Read my Bible everyday? missed a day
• Blog posts that weren't book reviews: 0
• Read 10 books

Month in Review -- June

• Wrote everyday at least a minimum of 100 words? yes
• Number of days that I wrote 500 words a day: 27
• Wrote 14,821 words this month
• Be creative
• Tat 2 crosses
• Crochet 16 Jelly Fish tentacles
• Knit
• Sculpt
• Exercise 5 days a week? yes
• Read my Bible everyday? yes
• Blog posts that weren't book reviews: 0
• Read 9 books

Month in Review -- May

• Wrote everyday at least a minimum of 100 words? Yes
• Number of days that I wrote 500 words a day: 26
• Wrote 14,718 words this month
• Be creative
• Tat
• Crochet
• Knit
• Sculpt
• Exercise 5 days a week? Yes
• Read my Bible everyday? Yes
• Blog posts that weren't book reviews: 0
• Read 4  books

Month in Review -- April

• Wrote everyday at least a minimum of 100 words? yes
• Number of days that I wrote 500 words a day: 27 (3 < 500)
• Wrote 15,251 words this month
• Be creative
• Tat 2 crosses
• Crochet
• Knit
• Sculpt
• Exercise 5 days a week? 3 out of 4 weeks
• Read my Bible everyday? yes
• Blog posts that weren't book reviews: 3
• Read 10 books

Month in Review -- March

• Wrote everyday at least a minimum of 100 words? yes
• Number of days that I wrote 500 words a day: 26 (5 days < 500)
• Wrote 14,763 words this month 
• Be creative
• Tat
• Crochet 1 snowman
• Knit
• Sculpt
• Bracelets 4
• Exercise 5 days a week? nope COVID-19 happened (4, 5, 2, 1)
• Read my Bible everyday? Except 1 day
• Blog posts that weren't book reviews: 1
• Read 8 books

Month in Review -- February

• Wrote everyday at least a minimum of 100 words? yes
• Number of days that I wrote 500 words a day: 26 (3 <500 li="">
• Wrote 14,655 words this month
• Be creative
• Tat 2 crosses
• Crochet
• Knit
• Sculpt
• Exercise 5 days a week? 2 of the 4 weeks I only did 4 days/week
• Read my Bible everyday? yes
• Blog posts that weren't book reviews: 3
• Read 12 books

Month in Review -- January

• Wrote everyday at least a minimum of 100 words? yes
• Number of days that I wrote 500 words a day: 28
• Wrote 15,643 words this month
• Be creative
• Tat: 3 crosses
• Crochet: 1 teapot, 1 teacup, 1 book
• Knit
• Sculpt
• Exercise 5 days a week? yes
• Read my Bible everyday? yes
• Blog posts that weren't book reviews: 1
• Read 9 books 

Goals for 2020

For the last few years, I've done goals for what I want to do in the year.  I schedule blog posts to post on the last day of each month, but half of the months, I didn't remember to go in and enter the amounts for the things I did! I'm going to alter my goals for this year to be a little more generic since I had put specifics like "Sculpt x babies, tat x crosses, knit x hats..." but then I don't do those specific things, but I crochet 5 teapots and knit 4 pairs of socks, but they aren't "counted" because I didn't put them on my goal list. I want to be more specific in my writing goals, however, and not just that I want to write each month.

My goals for 2020:

• Write everyday at least a minimum of 100 words
• Write 500 words a day
• Write 12,000 words a month
• Be creative
• Tat
• Crochet
• Knit
• Sculpt
• Exercise 5 days a week
• Read my Bible everyday
• Blog more than book reviews
• Read books

Month in Review: January

• Wrote 365 words
• Sculpted 0 babies
• Tatted 0 crosses
• Sewed 0 sock monkeys
• Knit 0 hats
• Exercised 20 days
• Read in the Bible 29 days
• Wrote up 2 backlogged book reviews 
• Posted 4 old blog posts 

2016 in Review and Goals for 2017

2016's goals:

• Write at least 9000 words/month (averages to 300 words/day)
• Sculpt at least 12 babies
• Tat at least 12 crosses
• Sew at least 12 sock monkeys
• Knit 9 hats
• Exercise at least 20 days/month
• Read at least 5 minutes a day in the Bible, plus in devotional books
• Write up at least 4 backlog book reviews a month
• Post more than book reviews on my blog and within 2 weeks of the event I'm blogging about happened

So how did I do?

• I wrote 6191 words (which is only about 516 per month)
• I sculpted 4 clay babies
• I tatted 3 cross bookmarks
• I sewed 3 sock monkeys
• I knit 4 hats
• I exercised most days until summer and then fell off
• I read almost every day in my Bible and a devotional book
• I wrote 16 backlogged book reviews (I honestly forgot that I had planned on doing this!)
• I was posting things to my blog quicker, but then got bogged down again. It seems that the more pictures I take at an event, the less likely I am to blog about it in a timely manner because I have to label/date all the pictures, then pick which ones I want to use, resize them all, and then write the blog post.

My goals for 2017:

For 2016, I'd like to keep most of my goals from 2015, with a few changes

• Write at least 3000 words/month (averages to 100 words/day)
• Sculpt at least 12 babies
• Tat at least 6 crosses
• Sew at least 6 sock monkeys
• Knit 9 hats
• Exercise at least 20 days/month
• Read at least 1 chapter a day in the Bible, plus in devotional books
• Write up at least 4 backlog book reviews a month
• Post more than book reviews on my blog and within 2 weeks of the event I'm blogging about happened

Month in Review: September

Backlogged reviews 0

Days exercised 10 (my knees were starting to hurt so bad, I had to take a break)

Bible read 28

Clay dolls sculpted 2

Hats knit 0

Words written 1200

Cross bookmarks tatted 0

Month in Review: June

I'm getting behind on blog posts. I need to do some from the beginning of May! I also have slaked off on doing the backlogged book reviews. I'm hoping to do better on that in July!

Backlogged reviews 0

Days exercised 29

Bible read 29

Clay dolls sculpted 0

Hats knit 0

Words written 104

Cross bookmarks tatted 2

Month in Review: May

So this month it looks like I didn't do anything!

Backlogged reviews 0

Days exercised 29

Bible read 29

Clay dolls sculpted 0

Hats knit 0

Words written 160

Cross bookmarks tatted 0

Month in Review: April

I got almost twice as many backlogged reviews done this month as my goal, but I still didn't write anything at all this month (other than blog posts). The hat I knit was a more time consuming one than normal with loops all over.

Backlogged reviews 7

Days exercised 27

Bible read 29

Clay dolls sculpted 0

Hats knit 1

Words written 0

Cross bookmarks tatted 0