Bonus Post: Follow-Up

We'd like to give you a run-down of what's going on with the goals we've set for ourselves in past posts.

First, the mighty checklist:

We can check off the following:

• clean room
• go to a museum
• go to an Old English country dance - We went twice, actually!
• participate in Camp NaNoWriMo - Results are discussed in part two of this post.
• attend the two Shakespeare plays that are happening near us this summer
• surprise our little sister with a tea party - see here
• kool-aid dip-dye our hair - see here
• plan some birthday hoopla for our best friend
• go swimming - Just once, unfortunately... we need to work on making this one happen a lot more often.
• watch "Sherlock" and "Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood" - We've gotten about halfway through both of these.

These items have not yet been accomplished:

• go on a picnic
• visit the farmer's market
• grow a plant
• exercise
• work on drama stuff
• go to the zoo
• play flute and piano together
• practice harmonizing
• attend the outdoor jazz concert that happens near us
• write a story together
• read "Go Set a Watchmen" by Harper Lee and discuss it together - Katie finished the book a couple of weeks ago, but it can't count as a completed "Sister Project" until Sarah has read it, too.
• put together a time capsule
• organize pictures and possibly make scrapbooks
• make t-shirts for the Taylor Swift concert we'll be seeing in the fall!

Second, our NaNoWriMo results:

Neither of us did well word-count-wise; we each made it about half-way. But writing was accomplished, ideas were formed and expanded, lessons were learned, and new goals were set. Since these results are the true point of NaNoWriMo, we're counting this past camp session as a success, even if we didn't reach our word-count goals.

In closing:

One of our NaNoWriMo friends, whom we know simply as "The Diva" was kind enough to nominate us for an award on her blog, which you can check out here: https://momsprincesspari.wordpress.com/. We're going to devote yet another bonus post to passing this award on to others this Sunday.