Goals

I hope you had a good Thanksgiving holiday. We had a lovely day spent with family. 🙂

I know I haven’t updated my goals since earlier this month, so I thought I’d share my progress and share new goals I have planned to tackle this week.

Here’s what I accomplished:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Work on memorizing a verse of scripture as a family

2. Go on a fun family outing — We’re planning on visiting Santa HQ this week for an event, and I can’t wait to create some great family memories. It already feels like the holidays are right upon us with the weather change and daylight savings and all.

Personal Goals:

3. Read through the book of Mark in the New Testament and the book of Nehemiah in the Old Testament — I’m still working on the book of Nehemiah, but along with Mark, I also read through Luke in the NT. I love God’s Word, and I’m thankful for the renewed passion He lit in me for His Word while we were RVing.

4. Pick up a couple of dumbbells from our storage unit — Side note: I CAN’T WAIT until we’re no longer paying for storage. I’m so over it! LOL

5. Update my resume — I’m so glad to have this done because it’s been a loooong time since I’ve worked on my resume.

6. Journal 2x

Home Management Goals:

7. Fill a bag with items to donate

8. List items on ebay

Business Goals:

9. Edit & upload at least one new video to my YouTube channel

10. Edit & upload at least one new video to our family YouTube channel

Here are my goals for this week:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Work on memorizing a verse of scripture as a family

2. Pick up Christmas themed books from the library and start Advent calendars with the kids

Personal Goals:

3. Finish reading through the book of John in the New Testament and the book of Nehemiah in the Old Testament

4. Exercise with dumbbells 3x

5. Meet with a friend

6. Journal 2x

Home Management Goals:

7. Go through and delete computer files/pictures that I no longer need

8. Work on December budget

Business Goals:

9. Edit & upload at least one new video to my YouTube channel

10. Edit & upload at least one new video to our family YouTube channel

What are your goals for this week?

I crossed off 9 out of 10 of my goals for last week. I’m hoping to cross off all 10 this week. We’ll see. I haven’t been able to cross off all 10 goals in one week in a long time, but I know it’s possible! I just need to use my time wisely and stay motivated. 🙂

Here’s what I accomplished:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Work on memorizing a verse of scripture as a family

2. Go on a fun family outing

Personal Goals:

3. Read through the book of Matthew in the New Testament and finish reading through Ezra in the Old Testament

4. Schedule a meeting with a friend

5. Install a plugin to clean up some of the unnecessary stuff hanging around my blog and then delete that plugin

6. Journal 2x

Home Management Goals:

7. Wipe down Elisabeth’s art project area

8. Work on November budget

Business Goals:

9. Edit & upload at least one new video to my YouTube channel

10. Edit & upload at least one new video to our family YouTube channel

Here are my goals for this week:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Work on memorizing a verse of scripture as a family

2. Go on a fun family outing — We’re planning on visiting Santa HQ this week for an event, and I can’t wait to create some great family memories. It already feels like the holidays are right upon us with the weather change and daylight savings and all.

Personal Goals:

3. Read through the book of Mark in the New Testament and the book of Nehemiah in the Old Testament

4. Pick up a couple of dumbbells from our storage unit — Side note: I CAN’T WAIT until we’re no longer paying for storage. I’m so over it! LOL 😉

5. Update my resume

6. Journal 2x

Home Management Goals:

7. Fill a bag with items to donate

8. List items on ebay

Business Goals:

9. Edit & upload at least one new video to my YouTube channel

10. Edit & upload at least one new video to our family YouTube channel

What are your goals for this week?

It’s been a few weeks since I updated my goals, but since I last shared them, I was able to cross 8 out of 10 off my list.

Before I share my progress with you, I thought I’d share a few photos of what we’ve been up to on weekends as a family. Fall has definitely arrived here in Illinois, and we’ve been enjoying a lot of good fall fun!

Here are a few pictures I took at this year’s Boo! at the Zoo!

The kids enjoyed getting to trick or treat at the zoo, and I was happy to be able to get all five of them together to snap this photo. They’re all getting so big!

Elisabeth recently lost her first tooth, and you can see the empty space that’ll soon be filled by an adult tooth! She’s pretty excited about it all. 🙂

Besides Boo! at the Zoo, we also took the kids to two events hosted by our local park district. They got to play games, decorate pumpkins, make a scarecrow, enjoy snacks and more.

Here’s a look at our Minecraft scarecrow:

We made a #Minecraft scarecrow today. 😃 #fall #fun pic.twitter.com/UL4Nvs62BF

— Sandra Calixto (@thesensiblemom) October 28, 2017

And then today, we visited Blackberry Farm where we were able to ride a carousel, train, and wagon. The kids also had the chance to climb up into a big tractor that was decorated for the season.

Had a great #family time at Blackberry Farm today 😄🍁👍❤ pic.twitter.com/aq7HGmpldB

— Sandra Calixto (@thesensiblemom) October 29, 2017

All in all, it’s been a fantastic fall so far. 🙂

And now, here’s what I accomplished as far as my goals:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Work on memorizing a verse of scripture as a family

2. Help Isaac list toys on ebay — Isaac is trying to make some extra money so he wants to sell some of his Five Nights at Freddy’s toys.

Personal Goals:

3. Read through 1 & 2 Thessalonians — I ended up finishing the New Testament again, and I’m starting back in Matthew. I also plan to continue reading the Old Testament. I’m in the book of Ezra there.

4. Meet with a friend

5. Write and publish a sponsored blog post

6. Journal 2x

Home Management Goals:

7. Sew a pair of pants — I decided to forget about this since the pants I was going to sew are really worn in some spots, and they’re probably going to end up in the trash soon.

8. Clean out my purse

Business Goals:

9. Edit & upload at least one new video to my YouTube channel — I’m working on a video.

10. Edit & upload one new video to our family YouTube channel — I FINALLY uploaded a new video on our channel for kids! Yay! 🙂

Here are my goals for this week:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Work on memorizing a verse of scripture as a family

2. Go on a fun family outing

Personal Goals:

3. Read through the book of Matthew in the New Testament and finish reading through Ezra in the Old Testament

4. Schedule a meeting with a friend

5. Install a plugin to clean up some of the unnecessary stuff hanging around my blog and then delete that plugin

6. Journal 2x

Home Management Goals:

7. Wipe down Elisabeth’s art project area

8. Work on November budget

Business Goals:

9. Edit & upload at least one new video to my YouTube channel

10. Edit & upload at least one new video to our family YouTube channel

What are your goals for this week?

I crossed off 7 out of 10 goals for last week. Not bad, but I keep failing at uploading new YouTube videos. I want to get back to both of our channels, but it’s been a challenge, especially since I’ve been dealing with laptop issues for a while now.

I finally got a few problems with my laptop resolved last weekend, so I should be good to go now. At least I hope so! I have an old laptop, and I’m trying to get as much life out of it as possible. 🙂

Here’s what I accomplished:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Work on memorizing a verse of scripture as a family

2. Go on a fun family outing — My family and I were invited to spend the weekend in Chicago and stay at the Radisson Blu Aqua hotel. If you’d like a peek into what we did, you check out my Instagram and Twitter accounts. Overall, the Radisson Blu Aqua far exceeded our expectations, and I can’t recommend it enough. It’s a beautiful hotel. 🙂

Personal Goals:

3. Read through the book of Ephesians — Since Ephesians is a shorter book, I ended up reading through Philippians and Colossians as well.

4. Take Breanna shopping

5. Write and publish a sponsored blog post — I started this post and plan on finishing it this week.

6. Journal 2x

Home Management Goals:

7. Look into switching our car insurance provider — I’m pretty sure we’re going to make the switch later this month.

8. Work on October budget

Business Goals:

9. Edit & upload at least one new video to my YouTube channel

10. Edit & upload at least one new video to our family YouTube channel

Here are my goals for this week:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Work on memorizing a verse of scripture as a family

2. Help Isaac list toys on ebay — Isaac is trying to make some extra money so he wants to sell some of his Five Nights at Freddy’s toys.

Personal Goals:

3. Read through 1 & 2 Thessalonians

4. Meet with a friend

5. Write and publish a sponsored blog post

6. Journal 2x

Home Management Goals:

7. Sew a pair of pants

8. Clean out my purse

Business Goals:

9. Edit & upload at least one new video to my YouTube channel

10. Edit & upload at least one new video to our family YouTube channel

What are your goals for this week?