Goals

It’s September, and October is right around the corner…how did that happen so quickly?

I’m not ready for summer to end. It’s my favorite season, and I want the longer days and warmer weather to stay around as long as possible. I’m not ready for chilly weather and winter…but, oh well! It’ll be here before we know it.

Maybe, if the Lord wills, someday we’ll move to Florida, where we can enjoy the sunshine much longer. I don’t know. I love Illinois, but as I get older, I don’t love the cold weather. I do appreciate it, though. I love that it sends the bugs back into hiding. You don’t get that in Florida. Bugs, gators, snakes, and more abound there.

So maybe we’ll stay in Illinois after all. 🙂

Here are my goals:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Finish planning for our upcoming weekend away as a family and print hotel reservations, etc…

2. Do driving lessons with Breanna

Personal Goals:

3. Lift hand weights 3 times

4. Walk at least 180 minutes — I plan to do this by walking on the treadmill and taking family walks outside.

5. Read Bible

6. Journal twice

Home Management Goals:

7. Fill a bag with items to donate

8. Wipe down the banisters

Business Goals:

9. Go through 5 business emails

10. Live stream a video to my YouTube channel — I’m currently live streaming my weight loss journey and giving other tips and ideas for how to lose weight and feel full eating 1,000 calories a day when you’re in the weight loss phase of this lifestyle.

What are your goals for this week?

Wow! August snuck up on us.

It seems like it was just the beginning of June and now here we are two months later and planning for back to homeschool.

I’m planning on getting the kids started back to school in early September, and, over the summer, I’ve been enjoying finding out about new resources to use in our homeschool. I’m looking forward to trying out some new curricula, books, and online resources. I want to incorporate more audiobooks this year, too. I think I’m going to get a subscription to Scribd and see how that works out for us.

Do you have kids going back to school? How is the planning/shopping going?

I still have more planning and purchasing to do before we get started so I’ve added that to my goals for the next week or so. 🙂

Here are my goals:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Spend time planning for a family weekend away

2. Do driving lessons with Breanna

Personal Goals:

3. Lift hand weights 3 times

4. Walk at least 180 minutes — I plan to do this by walking on the treadmill and taking family walks outside.

5. Read Bible

6. Journal twice

Home Management Goals:

7. Fill a bag with items to donate

8. Work on homeschool plans for the upcoming school year and purchase books we’ll use

Business Goals:

9. Go through 5 business emails

10. Live stream a video to my YouTube channel — I’m currently live streaming my weight loss journey and giving other tips and ideas for how to lose weight and feel full eating 1,000 calories a day when you’re in the weight loss phase of this lifestyle.

What are your goals for this week?

Life certainly got busy this past month so I didn’t get around to writing another goals post until now.

That’s okay, though. We’ve been doing a lot of great things as a family and making many memories in the process. We finally experienced our “Illinois Staycation” and that was so much fun.

We visited new places and some places that my husband and I have been to as kids or in the past but our kids haven’t had the opportunity to experience. It was all fun and I have more to share in a future blog post. I want to share lots of pictures because I tried to capture as much as I could while not taking away from our time together as a family. But I’ll share those in a dedicated staycation post later. Stay tuned. 🙂

Here are my goals for the next week or so:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Take David out for a special meal — My husband and I started taking one of our kids out to eat for a special meal each week throughout the holidays and we’ve decided to continue through 2022. 

2. Do driving lessons with Breanna at least twice – She’s driven to our library downtown and back home a couple of times. New achievements.

Personal Goals:

3. Lift hand weights 3 times

4. Walk at least 180 minutes — I plan to do this by walking on the treadmill and taking family walks outside.

5. Read Bible

6. Journal twice

Home Management Goals:

7. Fill a bag with items to donate

8. Clean upstairs bathroom

Business Goals:

9. Go through 5 business emails

10. Film, edit, and upload a video to my YouTube channel — This next video will be a vlog. I haven’t filmed a vlog in ages but I plan on making one of our time together at a waterpark.

What are your goals for this week?

Well, it’s time for another goals post. I’m shocking myself a bit by how much I’ve been able to blog this year.

I’m no great blogger, that’s for sure, but I feel like I’ve kept a pretty good pace with my blog this first half of the year. I’m hoping to keep it up for the rest of 2022.

What are you up to this spring/summer? We’ve enjoyed going on family walks and my husband has our garden going. Sadly, one of our apple trees died so we’ll have to replace it at some point. We purchased a twisted apple tree a couple of years ago from a local nursery.

I had no idea twisted apple trees were a thing and I can’t say I’d purchase them again in the future now that one has died, but, basically, we bought a Honeycrisp and a McIntosh apple tree that were “twisted” together so that they could pollinate each other. Here are our trees when they were in bloom this year. Beautiful, right?

Well, the thinner of the two trees was totally dead a few weeks later. 🙁

I don’t know whether it’s the Honeycrisp or the McIntosh that died. We’ll find out once we figure out what type of apples are growing on the tree that is left. The bright side of this story is that the stronger tree that’s left is producing apples this year when we didn’t get a single apple from either tree last year.

Anyway, if you have any good apple tree recommendations I’d love to hear them. If you’re gardening, how are things coming along for you?

Here are my goals for the next week or so:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Take Nathan out for a special meal — My husband and I started taking one of our kids out to eat for a special meal each week throughout the holidays and we’ve decided to continue through 2022. Nathan wants to go to Buona Beef. I think that’s a great choice because I love their chopped salad. It’s filling and delicious. The salad below is from City Barbeque where we went to eat with Breanna. I like their salads, too, but I prefer Buona’s chopped salad.

2. Do driving lessons with Breanna at least twice – We recently had her drive a bit further away from our neighborhood and she did a good job.

Personal Goals:

3. Lift hand weights 3 times

4. Walk at least 180 minutes — I plan to do this by walking on the treadmill and taking family walks outside.

5. Read Bible

6. Journal twice

Home Management Goals:

7. Fill a bag with items to donate

8. Clean downstairs bathroom

Business Goals:

9. Go through 5 business emails

10. Film, edit, and upload a video to my YouTube channel — I finally started publishing to YouTube again and, hopefully, I’ll keep it up.

What are your goals for this week?