Back in January I wrote my A to Z of things to achieve in 2017. Seeing as though we are halfway through August, I thought it was time to update you on my progress.
Discover a new place to have afternoon tea – I am booked in for afternoon tea in September, so this will get ticked off next month.
Hire a beach hut – In June I got to spend the day in a beach hut in Lytham St Annes.
Visit a new city – Bath was our ‘new city’ and what a wonderful 4 day break we had back in February.
Go dancing
Go to Edinburgh – Another placed ticked off the ‘travel list’ as we headed to Edinburgh for the very first time at the start of the summer holidays.
Meet up with blogging friends – I met up with some blogging friends at Blog On in Manchester back in May.
Be brave and go in the gym at David Lloyd
Be sat in a hot tub on Christmas Day or New Years Eve
Eat ice cream on the beach – Despite going to Greece twice this year, still no ice cream on the beach
Go to Jodrell Bank
Sort my kitchen cupboards out – STILL on the never ending list of house jobs.
See London at Christmas time
Buy a new mattress for Katie’s bed – Both Katie and Morgan got new mattresses for their beds a few months ago.
Go to Northumberland in the summer – We are heading to Slaley Hall in Northumberland at the end of the summer holidays, so another thing to tick off.
Carve a pumpkin in October
Paint my nails – Does it count if I paid somebody else to paint them ?
Visit the Queen
Go to Ribby Hall for a spa day
Buy a new sofa
Take the train to a new place – We took the train to Edinburgh which was a new place for us as a family. And travelling back First Class was fantastic.
Kiss under the stars
Venture outside with the kids more often – Hmmmm not sure if we have achieved this, but the kids are definitely going outside more with their friends.
Wear a pretty dress – Not sure if this counts as a pretty dress which I wore in Sani Dunes in Greece.
Avoid watching the X factor
Find a yellow submarine – If there is one place where you are guaranteed to find a yellow submarine, it has to be Liverpool.
Go to the Zoo – We have actually been to the zoo twice this year. Once to check out the animals, and again to review the new Madagascar play area at Chester Zoo.
So a fair few ticked off the list, but still lots to keep me busy for the rest of the year. I will of course update at the end of December to see whether I managed to achieve my A to Z list for 2017.
Definitely does count as a pretty dress ! you look lovely in it. Great progress on your list, you have been to some lovely places this year. Good luck with completing the rest of your list x
Thanks Angela, my aim is to hopefully get through it all before the end of the year x
I also set goals at the beginning of every month. I succeed to achieve some of them while some goals get vanished. One of my goals is listed here in the post–it is going to the gym (regularly!)
Eek I still haven’t been brave to go in yet, but I know I will probably enjoy it when I do (or is that just wishful thinking lol). Great idea to do a monthly list x
It looks like you’ve completed most of the big ones and I just know how much fun you will have had doing it! Edinburgh looked amazing, as did the beach hut. And that is most definitely a pretty dress! Love that you’ve decided not to watch X Factor this year! I find I half watch it as my daughter watches, so it’s hard to ignore it completely, but it definitely irritates me these days!
I have a feeling I might get roped into it. Daughter always watches it with Hywel (he loves it really lol), but I fear I might not escape it this year. And yes we have definitely had fun ticking off some of the things on the list. Edinburgh was amazing x
You are getting through it Tracey, and I would say yes that is a pretty dress you look lovely in it, now for the kitchen cupboards I did mine last week, but if I am honest only because the house was going on the market and I had a film crew visiting my kitchen x
I need to invite a film crew round Sarah to make me do them lol. Can’t wait to see what your secret filming mission was all about, and keeping fingers crossed for a smooth house move x