{"id":949,"date":"2015-01-31T09:20:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-31T09:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craftykidsathome.com\/index.php\/2015\/01\/31\/monthly-goals-february-2\/"},"modified":"2018-05-17T09:06:36","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T08:06:36","slug":"monthly-goals-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craftykidsathome.com\/monthly-goals-february\/","title":{"rendered":"Monthly Goals – February"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nThis year rather than making big bold New Year resolutions,
\nI am setting myself monthly goals<\/a>. These should hopefully be more realistic and
\ntherefore more manageable.<\/div>\n
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\nIn January I pledged to:<\/h3>\n
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\nCreate a 2014 Family Scrapbook<\/b> \u2013 I have now had all of my
\nphotographs developed and I have created a time line of events, but I still
\nhaven\u2019t quite managed to get it all put together yet. I will continue with this
\ninto February.<\/div>\n
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\nBe more thrifty with our craft supplies<\/b> \u2013 I started out well
\nwith this reusing lots of our waterbeads for painting<\/a> with and to create a
\nFishing activity<\/a> for the kids. We also mixed up some home-made play dough with
\nstore cupboard ingredients and set up an Invitation to make<\/a> activity with it
\nand some materials we already had in our craft cupboard. But then I did have to
\nmake a few small purchases for some of our Valentine\u2019s Day arts and crafts
\nactivities. Including some heart shaped buttons to go into our Love PotionPlay.<\/a><\/div>\n
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\nBring back my cleaning schedule<\/b> \u2013 This is working out
\nbrilliantly. I\u2019ve been spending 30 minutes most days doing household chores. This
\nhas really helped me to stay on top of things. The kids are still happy getting
\ninvolved at the end of the day with tidying away toys and sweeping up. so the
\nhouse is still in pretty good order one month into our new regime.<\/div>\n
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\nStress less on the school run<\/b> \u2013 I have been leaving the
\nhouse a good 10 minutes later than normal and do you know what, we are still
\nmaking it to school on time, but with the added bonus of coming home to a house
\nwith breakfast dishes tidied away and the first load of laundry going already.
\nThat\u2019s not to say there aren\u2019t still a few raised voices when the kids are
\ndragging their feet, but this time of the morning has definitely improved.<\/div>\n
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\nIn February I pledge to:<\/h3>\n
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\nBroaden the range of topics covered on my blog <\/b>\u2013 Joining up
\nthe co-host this linky has been my first steps towards opening up more on my
\nblog and talking about something other than just kids arts and crafts. This is
\nsomething I would like to do more off. Kid\u2019s arts and crafts ideas will always
\nbe the main focus of my blog, but I\u2019d love to include our recipes, more of my
\nown adult crafts and touch on some more personal parenting posts.<\/div>\n
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\nDo something for myself once a week<\/b> \u2013 My youngest is
\nstarting Montessori next week so for the first time in over 7 years I am going
\nto have two child-free mornings each week! 
\n<\/span>This will give me plenty of time to catch up on chores, do the
\nsupermarket shopping undisturbed, tackle more writing projects and hopefully
\nI\u2019ll be able to carve out some much needed me-time. I\u2019m looking forward to
\nbeing able to take a long walk along the sea front, go for a swim, get my hair
\ncut or meet friends for brunch. This will then hopefully leave me fully
\nrecharged then for the afternoon school runs and activities.<\/div>\n
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\nIntroduce the kids to works by Famous Artists <\/b>– My sons are aged 5 and 7 now and as they both love creating
\ntheir own artwork, I think it is now the right time to start to introduce some
\nart history into our arts activities. Before having kids we used to love taking
\ntrips to art galleries and this is something we\u2019d love to do with the kids now
\nthat they are less unruly when we are out and about. We attempted a trip to a
\ngallery a couple of years ago when the kids were only 4, 2 and a few months old
\nand this did not go well at all<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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\nGet organised for the school mid-term break<\/b> \u2013 The kids break
\nfor a week in just two weeks time. I would like to have a good long list of
\npossible and prepared activities, along with some ideas of day trips as well all
\nready. This will be a handy reference then for the inevitable \u201cWhat are we
\ndoing now Mummy?\u201d or \u201cI\u2019m bored\u201d moments.<\/div>\n
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\nWhat goals are you setting yourself this month?  <\/span>If you have written about them on your blog,
\nthen please add them to our linky or if you\u2019d just like to join in by
\ncommenting then sometimes just writing them down can be the first step to
\naccomplishing them. <\/div>\n
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\nHosted by Mama Smiles<\/a>, Multi Crafting Mummy<\/a>, Kitchen Floor Crafts<\/a>,
\n3 Dinosaurs<\/a>, Something 2 Offer<\/a>, and Play Activities<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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