Goals

Last week was special.

I mentioned that I won a family giveaway, but I wanted to wait to share exactly what I’d won.

Well, I’m ready to spill the details now. 😉

I entered and won a giveaway for a trip to Chicago to attend the PlayCHIC fashion show, the Toy and Game Inventor of the Year Awards, and the Chicago Toy and Game Fair. I was already planning on attending the Chicago Toy and Game fair with my family on Saturday, November 22nd, for a media and blogger breakfast. We wanted to go last year as a family, but David was in the hospital at that time.

That being said, when we won this year’s giveaway, we ended up getting to attend more than just that event!

ChiTAG VIP Weekend Giveaway

We technically won a trip to Chicago which included travel and a 3-night hotel stay. However, because we live in the suburbs of Chicago, we didn’t end up having any of the travel expenses covered. That was a bummer because parking at the hotel was expensive.

It was nice to be able to spend a couple of nights in Chicago, though. 🙂

Along with the hotel stay, we were given tickets to attend the PlayCHIC fashion show, and I was thankful that they ended up giving us enough tickets for our entire family to attend. It was a fun, light-hearted fashion show that even my kids enjoyed. Truthfully, they liked the experience much more than I thought they would!

The fashion show was on Thursday night, and for the following night, we had four tickets to attend the Toy and Game Inventor of the Year Awards (also known as the TAGIE Awards). Because we only had four tickets to this elegant dinner ceremony, we decided that Ruben would go with our three older kids while I stayed with our two youngest ones.

As a blogger, I’ve been blessed to attend lots of fun and even fancy dinners/events. I wanted Ruben and the kids to go to the TAGIE Awards and have a great time! And from what I heard afterwards, they did!

On Saturday, we went over to Navy Pier for the ChiTAG media and blogger breakfast, and then subsequently had a fun time exploring the ChiTAG fair. There was a lot to see and experience at the fair, and my kids loved it!

Once we’d finished walking around the fair, we went back to the hotel and ate lunch. And then Ruben and I looked at each other and decided that it was time to pack our things and head back home. We weren’t planning on going back to the fair on Sunday, and all the meals out and parking fees were adding up. So we checked out of the hotel on Saturday afternoon instead of on Sunday morning and headed home.

It was exciting to win the ChiTAG Giveaway. It was certainly a blessing. And going together as a whole family this year was a reminder of just how far David has come.

All I can say is: Praise the Lord!

As for my goals, I had added them to my Google Calendar and was able to get most of them crossed off.

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 shopping for dressy clothes we need for a family event later this week — We won a family giveaway. More to come on that later.

Personal Goals:

3. Do resistance band exercises 3x

4. Walk a total of 75 minutes on the treadmill

5. Read 20 pages of The Most Important Place on Earth (affiliate link) by Robert Wolgemuth

6. Wake up by 7:00am every day — I was up by 7:00am four times last week. That’s a big improvement! I’m thankful to now have an accountability partner to help me make getting up before my children a habit.

Home Management Goals:

7. Plan out Thanksgiving menu — We’re keeping things pretty simple. I live with picky eaters, and I’m going to make dishes that they like. I’m skipping the ones I’d end up eating all by myself. I’m sure the scale will thank me later. 😉

8. Clean upstairs bathroom

Business Goals:

9. Edit and post the DIY video on how to make homemade hair conditioner — The video has been edited and uploaded to YouTube, but I didn’t get around to posting it here on the blog just yet.

10. Photograph a product that’ll be featured in an upcoming blog post

Here are my goals for this week:

Family/Mothering Goals:

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

2. Take time as a family to tell each other what we’re thankful for

Personal Goals:

3. Do resistance band exercises 3x

4. Walk a total of 90 minutes on the treadmill

5. Read 20 pages of The Most Important Place on Earth (affiliate link) by Robert Wolgemuth

6. Wake up by 7:00am

Home Management Goals:

7. Vacuum upstairs

8. List one thing to sell on ebay

Business Goals:

9. Post the DIY video on how to make homemade hair conditioner

10. Photograph a product that’ll be featured in an upcoming blog post

What are your goals for this week?

Last week was busier than usual, so I didn’t get to a lot of my goals.

I can’t say I’m not disappointed. 😉

But it’s a new week. And because we have even more planned this week than the previous week, I’m going to keep my goals simple and doable.

Here’s what I accomplished last week:

Family/Mothering Goals:

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

2. Try a new science experiment with the kids and record it

Personal Goals:

3. Do resistance band exercises 3x

4. Walk a total of 75 minutes on the treadmill

5. Read 20 pages of The Most Important Place on Earth (affiliate link) by Robert Wolgemuth

6. Find an accountability program/group/person/something that’ll help me to start waking up earlier

Home Management Goals:

7. De-clutter the living room — My husband and kids helped with this and did a great job! We ended up buying a piece of furniture from IKEA to help organize the toys in the living room. Now the toys are in bins that are easy to pull out and put back when they’re finished.

8. Organize and clean Elisabeth’s play area — My son ended up getting this done for me.

Business Goals:

9. Edit and post the DIY video on how to make homemade hair conditioner

10. Photograph a product that’ll be featured in an upcoming blog post

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 shopping for dressy clothes we need for a family event later this week — We won a family giveaway. More to come on that later. 🙂

Personal Goals:

3. Do resistance band exercises 3x

4. Walk a total of 75 minutes on the treadmill

5. Read 20 pages of The Most Important Place on Earth (affiliate link) by Robert Wolgemuth

6. Wake up by 7:00am every day — So far, so good! I was up at 7:00am today!

Home Management Goals:

7. Plan out Thanksgiving menu

8. Clean upstairs bathroom

Business Goals:

9. Edit and post the DIY video on how to make homemade hair conditioner

10. Photograph a product that’ll be featured in an upcoming blog post

What are your goals for this week?

Okay, I give up trying to wake up before my kids every day.

That is, at least until I find a way to keep myself accountable.

My husband offered to help. But I know he’d be too forgiving, and things wouldn’t change much. 😉

So instead of having a goal to wake up by a certain time this week, I’m going to make an effort to find a way to keep myself accountable so that I can try again next week.

Besides struggling to wake up when my alarm clock went off, we didn’t try a new science experiment, and the light wasn’t right to take photos for a work assignment…

Here’s what I did get accomplished last week:

Family/Mothering Goals:

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

2. Try a new science experiment with the kids — We’re hoping to try an exciting experiment this week and record it!

Personal Goals:

3. Do resistance band exercises 3x

4. Walk a total of 75 minutes on the treadmill

5. Read 20 pages of The Most Important Place on Earth (affiliate link) by Robert Wolgemuth

6. Get up by 7:00am every morning — I was up by 7:00am only once last week.

Home Management Goals:

7. Go through a small pile of old mail that needs attention

8. Order photographs from Walgreens

Business Goals:

9. Shoot a DIY video on how to make homemade hair conditioner

10. Photograph a product that’ll be featured in an upcoming blog post

Here are my goals for this week:

Family/Mothering Goals:

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

2. Try a new science experiment with the kids and record it

Personal Goals:

3. Do resistance band exercises 3x

4. Walk a total of 75 minutes on the treadmill

5. Read 20 pages of The Most Important Place on Earth (affiliate link) by Robert Wolgemuth

6. Find an accountability program/group/person/something that’ll help me to start waking up earlier

Home Management Goals:

7. De-clutter the living room

8. Organize and clean Elisabeth’s play area

Business Goals:

9. Edit and post the DIY video on how to make homemade hair conditioner

10. Photograph a product that’ll be featured in an upcoming blog post

What are your goals for this week?

It seems that since I’m no longer sick, I’m having trouble getting to bed early and waking up before my kids… again.

This of course means that I did a terrible job of actually getting up before most of my children were awake and needing me.

But I’m not giving up!

I WILL make getting up early a habit.

I think I just need an accountability partner or something. 😉

Along with sleeping later than I’d planned, I put off breaking out the juicer, too. But I did well getting everything else crossed off my list.

Here’s what I accomplished last week:

Family/Mothering Goals:

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

2. Try a science experiment with the kids

Personal Goals:

3. Do resistance band exercises 3x

4. Walk a total of 75 minutes on the treadmill

5. Read 20 pages of The Most Important Place on Earth (affiliate link) by Robert Wolgemuth

6. Get up by 7:00am every morning — Now that I’m feeling better, I’m struggling in this area again.

Home Management Goals:

7. Juice the fruits and veggies in the refrigerator

8. Go through and organize the things on my desk that need attention

Business Goals:

9. Post DIY video

10. Write and post a review and giveaway of Door to Door Organics

Here are my goals for this week:

Family/Mothering Goals:

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

2. Try a new science experiment with the kids

Personal Goals:

3. Do resistance band exercises 3x

4. Walk a total of 75 minutes on the treadmill

5. Read 20 pages of The Most Important Place on Earth (affiliate link) by Robert Wolgemuth

6. Get up by 7:00am every morning

Home Management Goals:

7. Go through a small pile of old mail that needs attention

8. Order photographs from Walgreens

Business Goals:

9. Shoot a DIY video on how to make homemade hair conditioner

10. Photograph a product that’ll be featured in an upcoming blog post

What are your goals for this week?