This week should be a fun week. We’re planning on doing an overnight stay at an indoor water park in Wisconsin Dells for Nathan’s 13th birthday. It’s hard to believe that I’ll be the mom of a teenager by the end of the week. The days are passing by so quickly, and it seems like I’m constantly reminding myself of what I’m doing “wrong” or what I’m not doing enough of for my kids.

When you’re oldest child becomes a teenager, I guess it’s normal to think these things. Right?

I don’t know…I’m just thinking out loud here.

Anyway, here’s what I accomplished last week:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Read to Isaac and David individually

2. Play outside with the kids at least 3 times this week

Personal Goals:

3. Drink juice 2 days this week — I think I only had juice once last week. With my dad visiting, my normal eating habits have been kind of thrown off.

4. Read 10 pages of the book Desperate

5. Workout at least 5 days this week

Home Management Goals:

6. Go through our jackets and donate or get rid of the ones we no longer need

7. Continue to work on de-cluttering one of the kid’s bedrooms

Business Goals:

8. Work on one client project

9. Return emails

10. Write 4 blog posts

Here are my goals for this week:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Take a short family trip

2. Play outside with the kids at least 3 times this week

Personal Goals:

3. Drink juice 2 days this week

4. Read 10 pages of the book Desperate

5. Workout at least 5 days this week

Home Management Goals:

6. Keep up with de-cluttering our home (getting rid of or donating 7 things per day)

7. Clean and organize the pantry

Business Goals:

8. Work on client project

9. Return emails

10. Write 4 blog posts

What are your goals for this week?

Last week, I made the mistake of not writing my goals down on my calendar, which led to me not getting more of them crossed off my list. Oh well. I made decent progress anyway. I’m going to be thankful for that.

Here’s what I accomplished last week:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Take time and simply relax as a family

2. Play outside with the kids at least 3 times this week — I think we actually played outside twice. It was so funny, because one of the days, I played tag with the kids and my daughter looked at me and was like, “Mom? You run?” To switch I responded, “Yes, I run!” You just haven’t seen me do it very often…

Personal Goals:

3. Drink juice 2 days this week

4. Read 10 pages of the book Desperate

5. Workout at least 5 days this week (I’m in a Hello Mornings accountability group that’s going to help me accomplish my exercise goal. Part of my accountability has to do with exercising every weekday in addition be reading my Bible and planning my day before the kids wake up.)

Home Management Goals:

6. Clean the master bedroom, which is kind of a mess after unpacking

7. Work on de-cluttering one of the kid’s bedrooms

Business Goals:

8. Work on one client project

9. Return emails

10. Write 4 blog posts

Here are my goals for this week:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Read to Isaac and David individually

2. Play outside with the kids at least 3 times this week

Personal Goals:

3. Drink juice 2 days this week

4. Read 10 pages of the book Desperate

5. Workout at least 5 days this week

Home Management Goals:

6. Go through our jackets and donate or get rid of the ones we no longer need

7. Continue to work on de-cluttering one of the kid’s bedrooms

Business Goals:

8. Work on one client project

9. Return emails

10. Write 4 blog posts

What are your goals for this week?

Many of you know that I attended a blog conference last week, so I kept my goals simple. But even though I thought I’d set doable goals, I guess I needed to think even more simply.

Because I didn’t get a whole lot of them done.

Here’s what I accomplished last week:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Take the kids swimming — Ruben ended up taking our four older kids swimming in groups of two on two separate nights. I had planned on taking them the last night of the conference, but I was sleep deprived and had to wake up at 4am the next day it just didn’t happen.

2. Read to the kids — I had planned on reading to the kids on the way to Arkansas, but instead, we watched movies and the kids played on the ipads (our ipads are loaded with lots of educational apps). I also spent quite a bit of time trying to keep Elisabeth happy. I sit in the backseat of our car with her 99% of the time. Oh, and I wrote almost an entire blog post in Text Edit on my computer. This way I could simply copy and paste it into my real WordPress text editor and publish it when I had an internet connection.

Personal Goals:

3. Drink juice 2 days this week

4. Read 10 pages of the book Desperate

5. Eat sensibly and make semi-healthy choices while at the conference — I made decent choices, but I did have a cupcake, candy, cokes, and mashed potatoes.

Home Management Goals:

6. Finish packing for the conference

7. Make sure the kids have plenty to do in the car on the way to Arkansas

Business Goals:

8. Attend a blog conference and network with fellow bloggers

9. Return emails

10. Write 4 blog posts — I thought I’d get a little writing done in between sessions at the conference. Um, no, that didn’t happen.

Here are my goals for this week:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Take time and simply relax as a family

2. Play outside with the kids at least 3 times this week

Personal Goals:

3. Drink juice 2 days this week

4. Read 10 pages of the book Desperate

5. Workout at least 5 days this week (I’m in a Hello Mornings accountability group that’s going to help me accomplish my exercise goal. Part of my accountability has to do with exercising every weekday in addition be reading my Bible and planning my day before the kids wake up.)

Home Management Goals:

6. Clean the master bedroom, which is kind of a mess after unpacking

7. Work on de-cluttering one of the kid’s bedrooms

Business Goals:

8. Work on one client project

9. Return emails

10. Write 4 blog posts

What are your goals for this week?

I was able to accomplish most of my goals for last week.

This week will be out-of-the-ordinary because I’m going to a blog conference. So I’m going to keep my goals simple and realistic.

First, here’s how I did with last week’s goals:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Take the kids shopping for new clothes — While I didn’t find any spectacular deals, I did end up getting one or two things for each kid. Right now isn’t exactly the best time of the year to find amazing deals on clearance.

2. Cook with David — We made waffles and had a great time together in the kitchen.

Personal Goals:

3. Drink juice 2 days this week

4. Read 10 pages of the book Desperate

5. Walk on the treadmill for 2.5 hours over the course of the week and workout my arms at least 2x this week — I ended up walking on the treadmill for just over an hour last week, so I missed my goal of 2.5 hours. But I did get two arm workouts done.

Home Management Goals:

6. Go through Isaac’s and David’s clothes and take out the ones that no longer fit and/or need to be donated

7. Organize my desk area

Business Goals:

8. Create a graphic and order a new intro for my YouTube channel videos — I created a graphic, but I didn’t end up placing an order. I’m going to wait until I actually start using my channel more.

9. Return emails

10. Write 4 blog posts

Here are my goals for this week:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Take the kids swimming

2. Read to the kids

Personal Goals:

3. Drink juice 2 days this week

4. Read 10 pages of the book Desperate

5. Eat sensibly and make semi-healthy choices while at the blog conference

Home Management Goals:

6. Finish packing for the conference

7. Make sure the kids have plenty to do in the car on the way to Arkansas

Business Goals:

8. Attend a blog conference and network with fellow bloggers

9. Return emails

10. Write 4 blog posts

What are your goals for this week?

I’m excited to have a fresh new week ahead of me. Last week, I got most of my goals accomplished, and this week my schedule is not as busy, so I’m looking forward to being more intentional in the time I spend with my children.

Here’s how I did with last week’s goals:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Cook with Breanna

2. Read library books to the kids — I’m checking out new books for them today.

Personal Goals:

3. Drink juice 2 days this week

4. Read 10 pages of the book Desperate

5. Walk on the treadmill for 2.5 hours over the course of the week and workout my arms at least 2x this week — I’m challenging myself a little more this week.

Home Management Goals:

6. Unpack one box

7. Clip coupons that continue to pile up — Okay, I gave up. My husband and I talked it over, and we decided to cancel our Sunday newspaper subscription.

Business Goals:

8. Work on one client project

9. Return emails

10. Write 4 blog posts

Here are my goals for this week:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Take the kids shopping for new clothes — I’m hoping to find 1 or 2 new items on sale or clearance for each kid. We went shopping last week but didn’t find much. Here’s hoping for better deals this week!

2. Cook with David (I ended up getting my cooking time in with Isaac on Sunday, so David is up next.)

Personal Goals:

3. Drink juice 2 days this week

4. Read 10 pages of the book Desperate

5. Walk on the treadmill for 2.5 hours over the course of the week and workout my arms at least 2x this week — This was a challenge last week, so I’m keeping my exercise goal the same for this week. I’m thankful to have accountability partners. Since I know I’m going to report my progress to them, I work hard at getting my treadmill time in.

Home Management Goals:

6. Go through Isaac’s and David’s clothes and take out the ones that no longer fit and/or need to be donated

7. Organize my desk area

Business Goals:

8. Create a graphic and order a new intro for my YouTube channel videos

9. Return emails

10. Write 4 blog posts

What are your goals for this week?