Last week was a pretty stressful week. The original house that we had made an offer on didn’t turn out in our favor, so we moved on to make an offer on our #2 house, which was a bit higher in price. And we found out on Thursday, after more negotiation, that our offer was accepted.
We’re moving to Georgia!
It’s starting to sink in a bit now, but it felt surreal at first. The saddest part of moving is leaving friends and family, so I’m trying to get in as much time with them as possible over the next month before we have to officially drive to Georgia to close on the house and move in.
I didn’t get as much accomplished as I had hoped in terms of my goals. But a tiny bit of progress is still progress, right?
Here’s how I did:
Family/Mothering Goals:
1. Continue reading through the Psalms with the kids. I didn’t read nearly as much as I had hoped. I think I only read Psalms once with Breanna, but it did spark a conversation that led her to read a portion of 2 Samuel.Β
2. Spend time reading one-on-one with David. Done.
Personal Goals:
3. Walk on the treadmill 4 days this week for longer periods of time than I did last week. Done.
4. Continue counting my calories. Done, and I’m definitely keeping this up! It was another eye-opening week to find out how many calories really are in the foods I consume. We went out to lunch after church with Ruben’s parents on Sunday afternoon. We went to Chilis, and I ordered a salad. When I got home, I checked the calorie intake of that particular salad on the Chilis website. It had 1,300 calories! For a salad. Needless to say, I ended up having to be more careful about what I ate for the rest of the day, since I had consumed my calorie allowance for that day before dinner.
5. Wake up by 8:00am every morning. I honestly didn’t try hard enough on this goal. I stayed up way too late most nights, and probably woke up around 8:30am most days.
Home Management Goals:
6. Clean the refrigerator. I *thought* about doing this quite a few times, just never actually did it.
7. Pack up as many boxes as possible. All the packing was put on hold after we found out our offer was not accepted on the first house. Now that our offer has been accepted on the second house, packing is going to continue in high gear.
Business Goals:
8. Post one blog post each day. No….I’m hoping for a better week this week. I’ve decided to try to focus on writing all or the majority of my blog posts in one day and schedule them. We’ll see how that works.
9. Work on client project. Done.
10. Return emails. Done.
And now for this week’s goals:
Family/Mothering Goals:
1. Continue reading through the Psalms with the kids with a focus on reading a psalm together before lunch.
2. Continue spending time reading one-on-one with David.
Personal Goals:
3. Walk on the treadmill 4 days this week for longer periods of time than I did last week.
4. Continue counting my calories.
5. Wake up by 7:00am every morning. I’m going to try to go to bed earlier and start working my way down to getting up before the kids. Someday, I’d like to get back to a routine of waking up by 5:00am every morning. Today I got up around 6:45am, which is a start. π
Home Management Goals:
6. Clean the refrigerator.
7. Pack up as many boxes as possible.
Business Goals:
8. Post one blog post each day.
9. Finish designing a blog for Breanna.
10. Return emails.
What are your goals for the week?
I am so happy for you that your offer was accepted on the second house. It looks like you got a lot of your goals done from last week even though it must have been a busy week for you. It looks like you got the most important goals done an that is what is important. I am sorry you will have to be living away from family and friends. But it will be wonderful to have your own home.
Thanks, Shelly! It will be wonderful to have our own home after so long! We’ve been renting for 10 long years……
Our oldest, Nathan, is pretty happy about finally getting his own room, too! π
I truly enjoy reading your goals, and, even more, reading how you did. I have always made a βto doβ list, and enjoy checking things off as they are completed. But I have never written them out as statements. I have read it is powerful, but us old buzzards donβt learn as quickly as young chickens! :-0
SO, last night I wrote out my goals for the week. I have probably done too many, but I do not have 5 kids, Iβm not getting ready to pack, and some are extremely short in time requirement. I feel more βdrivenβ to do them than when I just make a βtodo list.β Weβll see if it lasts. ο
Another thing I appreciate about your Monday goal list is your total and complete, non-apologetic statement of what you did and did not do. I have perfectionist tendencies, and would struggle if I missed completing even ONE of the goals. Itβs like reading your success/failure comments have made it more ok to not finish. Again, you are βnon-apologetic.β
ANDβ¦ one more thing β I like that you made goals for the week instead of daily. It helps to conquer the feeling of defeat early in the week! AND it allows for much more flexibility, based on life circumstances.
Thank you for sharing!
love, Gini
Thank you, Gini, for your wonderful comment!
I’m glad to hear that you made a list of goals, too. π I KNOW you’ll do a great job at getting them accomplished. And it’s true, if you don’t get something done, that’s okay. You can move it to next week. The important thing is that you made some progress on your goals, even if you didn’t get to them all.
Life is truly stressful and crazy right now. I NEED things to slow down, and I’m hoping that after this move, we’ll be able to do just that. I’m also going to start accepting more help with the kids over the next few weeks, which is something that is hard for me to do at times. π