Goals

I did pretty well with last week’s goals and crossed 9 out of 10 things off my list. That’s not bad. 🙂

Here’s what I accomplished:

Family/Mothering Goals:

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

2. Go on a fun family outing — I think I’m going to vlog this day because we’re going to a Give Kids the World Family Reunion and it should be a lot of fun for the kids. I’m not sure that there’s been a “GKTW Family Reunion” in the Chicago area in the past, but this will be our first time going to one and we can’t wait. We stayed at Give Kids the World Village in Florida for David’s Make-A-Wish trip. — I did vlog this day and will share that video soon on my YouTube channel.

Personal Goals:

3. Research home school curriculum

4. Walk a total of 60 minutes on the treadmill

5. Read at least 5 pages from each of these books: Toward a Growing Marriage by Gary Chapman, Be the Best Mom You Can Be by Marina Slayton, and Influencer Marketing for Dummies

6. Journal 2x

Home Management Goals:

7. Work on our budget

8. Clean up and organize Elisabeth’s Play-Doh area

Business Goals:

9. Shoot at least one new video for our family YouTube channel

10. Edit & upload at least one new video for my YouTube channel

Here are my goals for this week:

Family/Mothering Goals:

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

2. Plan a fun family day

Personal Goals:

3. Start working on a Family Vision for our family

4. Walk a total of 80 minutes on the treadmill

5. Read at least 5 pages from each of these books: Toward a Growing Marriage by Gary Chapman, Be the Best Mom You Can Be by Marina Slayton, and Influencer Marketing for Dummies

6. Journal 2x

Home Management Goals:

7. List an item to sell

8. Catch up on all the laundry — After two weeks without a working dryer, we should finally have a new one installed tomorrow. Yay! I will have help catching up on the laundry because my husband, son, and daughter all pitch in in this area. Together, we’ll get it done.

Business Goals:

9. Shoot at least one new video for our family YouTube channel

10. Edit & upload at least one new video for my YouTube channel

What are your goals for this week?

P.S. If you’re keeping up with up our radon updates, I got the kit in the mail last week and got it set up in the basement right away. It’s been down there long enough (we purchased a short term radon kit), and tomorrow I’ll be mailing it back to the company for results. I should have them by next week’s update!

Since I missed writing a goals post last week, I’m going to start fresh again this week.

Here are my goals for the week:

Family/Mothering Goals:

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

2. Go on a fun family outing — I think I’m going to vlog this day because we’re going to a Give Kids the World Family Reunion and it should be a lot of fun for the kids. I’m not sure that there’s been a “GKTW Family Reunion” in the Chicago area in the past, but this will be our first time going to one and we can’t wait. We stayed at Give Kids the World Village in Florida for David’s Make-A-Wish trip. 🙂

Personal Goals:

3. Research home school curriculum

4. Walk a total of 60 minutes on the treadmill

5. Read at least 5 pages from each of these books: Toward a Growing Marriage by Gary Chapman, Be the Best Mom You Can Be by Marina Slayton, and Influencer Marketing for Dummies

6. Journal 2x

Home Management Goals:

7. Work on our budget

8. Clean up and organize Elisabeth’s Play-Doh area

Business Goals:

9. Shoot at least one new video for our family YouTube channel

10. Edit & upload at least one new video for my YouTube channel

What are your goals for this week?

P.S. For anyone that’s following along, we ordered a radon test kit this week and will start testing as soon as it gets here! I’ll update you guys with the results when we have them.

Well, since my last goals post update, we’re doing much better.

We’re feeling better, and life is pretty much back to normal. We haven’t tested for radon yet, but we’re hoping to get that done soon. It turns out that here in Illinois, it’s not our landlord’s responsibility to test for radon. They are only responsible for disclosing high radon levels to tenants IF they CHOOSE to test.

So, if we want to know whether or not we have high radon levels in our home, we have to test and then let our landlord know if we find out that there are indeed high radon levels in the basement. And then at that point, our landlord would be responsible for (hopefully) making the situation safe by hiring something to fix the potential radon gas problem.

If they choose not to fix the problem, then we’ll just see what we end up doing from there, but they would be responsible for disclosing the high level of radon to any future tenants at that point.

Let’s hope that when we test that there aren’t high levels and we haven’t been exposing ourselves to radon gas for over two years now. I’m hoping that’s the case. But if there are high levels, I feel like that would answer some questions about some health issues we’ve had associated to the air quality in the basement.

Anyway, if you’re still reading, I’ve been researching companies and finding out about different kits that we can buy, and I’ve settled on one. I’m planning on ordering it soon to get the ball rolling. 🙂

As for my goals, I’m starting fresh this week since I missed writing a goals post last week.

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 fun family outing — I’m planning on vlogging this day.

Personal Goals:

3. Make smoothies at least 3 times

4. Walk a total of 60 minutes on the treadmill

5. Read at least 5 pages from each of these books: Toward a Growing Marriage by Gary Chapman, Be the Best Mom You Can Be by Marina Slayton, and Influencer Marketing for Dummies

6. Journal 2x

Home Management Goals:

7. Clean the bathrooms

8. List one thing for sale on ebay

Business Goals:

9. Shoot, edit & upload at least one new video to our family YouTube channel

10. Shoot, edit & upload at least one new video to my YouTube channel

What are your goals for this week?

Life has been a roller coaster lately, and I’m ready for things to get back to normal.

But I guess they’re not going to just yet because I woke up to a child vomiting again this morning. 🙁

The craziness started last Monday night with a carbon monoxide leak that sent our whole family to the emergency room. Praise the Lord that our carbon monoxide detectors went off, and we realized why we were feeling sick and got out of the house and to safety before it was too late.

The fire department and gas company came out and confirmed a leak that they thought was coming from the basement. We were told that the house wasn’t safe to live in, so we spent one night in a hotel and the rest of the time we stayed with my mom.

Our landlord finally got someone out to inspect and make repairs and we were able to return home on Friday morning.

But guess what? On Friday morning, Elisabeth woke up sick and was throwing up about every 20 to 25 minutes. Then by Friday night, we were ALL sick. Ruben and I were cleaning up vomit left and right, and trying to keep it together because we weren’t feeling well either.

Saturday was a day of complete and utter exhaustion…and more throwing up. On Sunday, things started to look a little better, but we were still sick and exhausted and there was more throwing up. Laundry has been endless.

Monday was a bit better than Sunday, and we were mostly dealing with upset stomachs and fatigue.

But this morning (Tuesday), Elisabeth woke up throwing up again, and I just want all of this to end now. But since it’s not over, we’re going to keep taking it easy and pray we’re all well soon.

And so, because life hasn’t been normal lately, I haven’t been keeping up with my weekly goals, but I’m going to attempt to this week and see how it goes. 🙂

Here are my goals for this week:

Family/Mothering Goals:

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

2. Work on a Father’s day gift with the kids

Personal Goals:

3. Wake up by 7:00 AM at least 4 days

4. Walk a total of 30 minutes on the treadmill

5. Read at least 5 pages from each of these books: Toward a Growing Marriage by Gary Chapman, Be the Best Mom You Can Be by Marina Slayton, and Influencer Marketing for Dummies

6. Journal 2x

Home Management Goals:

7. Update the list of books the older kids have read through this year

8. Fill a bag with items to donate

Business Goals:

9. Shoot, edit, & upload at least one new video to our family YouTube channel

10. Return emails

What are your goals for this week?