last years list

finally i'm coming to a quick halt and take the time to write down my list of things i want to do in the time to come. i have done that in the past and loved listing my ideas and then keep an eye on it to see what's coming along as well as going through the list mid year to see what i neglected.

so first a quick look at last years list:

1. keep thea's joy on learning to play the violin alive and foster it (official lessons start in february)
- lessons started and yes she is the one calling for practice time at home, we just finished the first year and she loves it

2. sew a couple more jersey skirts and some other sewing projects or knitting i guess would count too, one project a month....
- no jersey skirts, but one for me and another one for naomi and a dress for little 

3. get a good pair of house shoes for myself (any suggestions?)
- i got a pair of mary janes' in cotton candy

4. learn more about gregorian chanting here
- together with my mother i attended a one day course, wonderful and very interesting. i'm certain i will find my way to a day of gregorian chanting once more

5. keep regular evening prayers
- work in progress, i got into the habit of praying the complien most nights

6. practice to not mother our oldest son too much
- awareness and trying hard

7. finish the started bed quilt for my friend
- i'm working on it, the top is cut and half way sewn together, the fabric for the back picked but no idea of how to do it

8. grow a straw bale garden
- didn't work out, really. for the moment there are leeks planted as a winter's crop

9. plant more berry bushes around the house
- i planted a few more raspberrie plants, i got them from my brother in law and they seem to do well

10. finish the golden shawl
- didn't touch it

11. try out how to make a pavlova dessert
- didn't even look up the recipe one more time

12. read through the psalter's again and again
- didn't do it

13. work with the different lenses on my rlx
- mostly using the 1.2-16, which joel put together for me
- i don't like the tele, so i leave that one to joel
- i got a new lens and love it

14. take some vacation time in the mountains with friends, to hike and enjoy
- we were in grindelwald in a "maiensaess" in august with my parents, wonderful
- and with our friends we spent one week in viareggio at the mediterranean sea

15. clean all the windows of the house (inside and out)
- i cleaned all the living room windows, naomi cleaned the windows of her room, one of my house mates cleaned all the kitchen windows, together with amos we did all the bedroom windows, succeeded by end of october

16. paint the living room and put a new floor down
- all done and we even got a new piano!

17. read half a dozen books
- dietrich bonhoeffer, pastor, martyr, prophet, spy
- von der dunkelheit zum licht
- one thousand gifts
- gott im leben entdecken, working on it

18. do an other summer project like the granny square sampler one
- i have not found any yet, anyone have a hint
- there was not a nice big project, i worked on a granny square quilt, though have just finished to top

19. work on some paper collages and mixed media
- some feeble attempts

20. go out for a nice dinner, only with joel
- it was not just dinner, but a week in irland in july

21. go and see the special exhibit on giacometti at the kunsthaus zurich
- missed this one

22. try one dozen new dinner recipes (more with less $)
- frittata with potatoes, leeks and eggs
- tried all kinds of dishes, mostly casseroles, which i loved

23. being intentional about "being thankful" in my day to day routine as well as the extraordinaire moment
- that's a good one to take into thought every day

24. knitting a "spitzen hemdchen"
- nope not done, still dreaming
 
25. do something against human trafficking, what ever it might be
- i did help with the stop armut konferenz in october
- and organized an event with irene hirzel as speaker in winterthur, just last week

26. get thea started with her english language curriculum
- she loves "explore the code"

27. invest some money in micro loans, as i'm so wealthy and privileged to live in a first world country
- not done until now

28. not missing the remaining voting days, june 9th, then there is an other one in august and november...
- didn't miss any and already put the ballet in the mail for the february 9th

29. at any time there should be flowers on the kitchen table
- i do manage most times, some times we enjoy a wooden or rocky display