It’s been a long couple of weeks around here with everyone taking turns being sick. But – as of yesterday, the entire family is healthy and back to school and work (yay!). Hopefully everyone will stay germ-free for a while now. 

Over the past few weeks the house ended up pretty much trashed – which is why we spent a lot of time working on it over the weekend. Not only did we get the dishes done, the laundry folded and put away and everything generally picked up, but we also finally got the basement cleaned up and the playroom re-organized (again). So at the moment, the house is actually in fairly decent shape – for once.

So, the list of things that I’m going to be tackling today includes a lot of things other than housework.  Like continuing to rake the leaves out in the yard – we got the front yard done on Sunday, and Becca and I raked 1-1/2 bags worth in the side yard today, but there’s a lot left to do.

We also need to finish the invitations for Hannah’s birthday party after she gets home from school. She’s filling out and addressing them herself and got several done over the weekend, but we need to finish the rest. It takes a little longer with a first grader doing the writing, but she’s so excited to be doing the invitations all by herself. I may need to help her out though, just so we can get them out – the party’s in less than 2 weeks now.

And, I’ve got something that I want to tackle as well.  I’ve been teaching myself to knit on double-pointed needles. I’ve started a sock, but put it on hold when I got to the heel part. Then I made a hat over the past few days – it was originally supposed to be for Hannah, but turned out a bit smaller than I thought, so may end up as Becca’s (I finished it after everyone was in bed last night so couldn’t try it on any of the girls). I have more yarn to make a second hat for Hannah, but I really want to sit down and work on finishing the sock first. So I want to take some time to try working on the heel to see if I can figure it out.

Here’s the hat:

I’m not going to post any pictures of the sock until it’s done – I’m being optimistic that I can figure the heel, foot and toe parts out and get it done. I’ll let you know how it goes. 

The last thing that I want to tackle has to do with what I got for my birthday last week – a Wii Fit Plus. I’ve played around with it once, but want to take the time to try out the different exercises some more. So far I’ve pretty much realized that my balance isn’t as good as I thought it was (or as it used to be perhaps), but I’m looking forward to working on that – and on my general fitness level as well.

What are you tackling this week? And check out other Tackle It Tuesday posts over at 5 Minutes for Mom!