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10 Goals for the Week

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10 Goals to Tackle This Week

I was thisclose to crossing off all of my goals for last week, but I missed pulling out my journal a second time. I realized that LATE last night and decided to just let it go.

We have a few fun things planned as a family this week, and one adventure I’m especially excited about is going to the Annual Celebrate Life (Transplant) Party at the White Sox Stadium in Chicago!

We received an invitation from the hospital a few weeks ago and RSVP’d right away. Truthfully, I think the kids are more excited about having lunch at the game. πŸ˜‰

But that’s okay.

Here’s what I accomplished last week:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Continue to work on memorizing two verses of scripture as a family

2. Go on a family outing

Personal Goals:

3. Do resistance band exercises 4x

4. Walk a total of 200 minutes on the treadmill

5. Read 10 pages of The Lord of the Rings (Part One) The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

6. Journal 2x — I only journaled once.

Home Management Goals:

7.Β Fill one bag with items to donate

8.Β Clean under Elisabeth’s bed

Business Goals:

9. Shoot, edit, & upload three videos toΒ our family YouTube channel

10.Β Shoot, edit, & upload two family vlogs

Here are my goals for this week:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Continue to work on memorizing two verses of scripture as a family

2. Go on a family outing

Personal Goals:

3. Do resistance band exercises 4x

4. Walk a total of 200 minutes on the treadmill

5. Read 10 pages of The Lord of the Rings (Part One) The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

6. Journal 2x

Home Management Goals:

7.Β Make eye exam appointments

8.Β Deep clean the bathrooms

Business Goals:

9. Shoot, edit, & upload three videos toΒ our family YouTube channel

10.Β Shoot, edit, & upload two family vlogs

What are your goals for this week?


The Latest YouTube Videos on Fun Playtime Reviews

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This is a great gift idea or a good idea for everyday Play-Doh fun! Check out this cute video of the Disney Princess Rapunzel Hair Designs Playset!

This week, I was able to get three videos filmed, edited, and uploaded to YouTube by late Friday night, so that was a big accomplishment. πŸ˜‰

And now,Β here are a few YouTube-related things I want to share:

  1. There’s news going around that YouTube is going to start offering a subscription type service at some point this year. And it sounds like with this service, people could pay a regular fee to be able to watch all YouTube videos ad-free. Interesting, huh?
  2. If you regularly create YouTube videos, then it’s a GREAT idea to use an external hard drive to store all of those videos. This is because of all the file space your videos will take up on your computer. I currently have one big external hard drive, and it’s almost full (We store our pictures on it, too.). We’ll be buying a second one later this week.
  3. Which is better for editing video: iMovie or ScreenFlow? Personally, I prefer iMovie, but my husband regularly uses both iMovie and ScreenFlow. He likes ScreenFlow forΒ the extra features it has that aren’t included in iMovie.

Here are this week’s videos:

FROZEN Treasure Box Surprise Opening – FROZEN Lollipop Rings, FROZEN Egg, Disney Princess Keys

Play Doh Disney Princess Rapunzel Hair Designs Playset

Disney Princess Play Doh Design a Dress Boutique with Belle and Rapunzel

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