Goals

The last few weeks have been interesting. We managed to pack up most of our home, go on a family vacation to Disney World, then come back to rent a moving truck and close on our house with the new buyer.

After the closing, we finished packing (it seemed like we’d never finish), and drove away from the house that was our home for the past eight months. We arrived back in Illinois on Sunday, January 13, and here we are.

We are extremely happy to be back home in Illinois. I couldn’t stop smiling as we drove on familiar streets and past familiar places on the way to my mom’s house, where we’ve been staying as we search for a new home to rent.

I’ll be honest and say that I do miss the house that was our home in Georgia. It was a great house, and I miss it. But I’m thrilled to be living back in Illinois, and the Lord has provided a great rental home for our family. We get to move in at the end of this week.

Anyway, I’ll post more on the adventure of the last few weeks very soon, but in the meantime, here are my goals for this week:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Read to the children

2. Pray with each child daily

Personal Goals:

3. Keep up with an online Bible study

4. Read 10 pages of the book, Desperate

5. Pray about homeschooling (now that we are moving into the realm of having four children that’ll be doing school at home…I need some additional prayer and help)

Home Management Goals:

6. Unpack as many boxes as possible over the weekend in our new home (we should get the keys on Friday)

7. Clean areas that need it in our new home

Business Goals:

8. Work on client project

9. Write 3 blog posts

10. Work on answering emails quickly

What are your goals for this week?

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. We had a day filled with family, food, and gifts. We started by thanking the Lord for His most precious gift, Jesus, and then the kids opened their gifts. They received lots of LEGO sets, which they were extremely happy about. 🙂

Tomorrow, we start packing all over again. We’ve packed a good amount so far, but we have a lot to go. I’ve made a plan as to which rooms will get packed on certain days, and we have to stick to that plan. So I’ll be keeping my goals pretty simple and centered around our upcoming move back to Illinois.

But first, here’s how I did with last week’s goals:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Keep up with adding one ornament to the Christmas tree everyday until Christmas — We didn’t do this perfectly, but when we missed a day, we’d just do it the next time we added ornaments.

2. Make Christmas cookies! — We made Christmas cookies twice, and I definitely want to share the recipe I used here on the blog. They turned out so delicious!

Personal Goals:

3. Juice at least 2 days this week

4. Pray — And continuing to pray…

5. Walk on the treadmill 4 days this week — I never ended up getting on the treadmill, but I did spent extra time walking around a few stores. That counts as exercise, right? 😉 I also spent lots of time on my feet, cooking and baking in the kitchen.

We decided to purchase an Ergo baby carrier for Elisabeth, so I’m hoping that I’m be able ‘wear’ Elisabeth in the carrier while I walk on the treadmill. It should get here on Wednesday, and I’m super excited! I’ve used baby wraps in the past, but for quite some time Elisabeth hasn’t liked the moby wrap I had been using with her.

She likes to be held a ton, and my arms and hands are actually starting to bother me when I carry her now. I think the combination of carrying her and using the computer is starting to affect me physically. Not good. But I’m hoping she’ll love the Ergo, and I can use that to carry her around the house.

Home Management Goals:

6. Plan an activity for our little family Christmas party

7. Pack

Business Goals:

8. Work on client projects

9. Write 3 blog posts

10. Create one video

And now for this week’s goals:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Help the kids pack up their rooms

2. Go out for a family lunch

Personal Goals:

3. Juice at least 3 days this week

4. Pray about moving, the closing, and a family trip

5. Walk on the treadmill 3 days this week

Home Management Goals:

6. Follow our packing plan

7. Clean, clean, clean

Business Goals:

8. Work on client project

9. Write 3 blog posts

10. Take extra time off of working

What are your goals for this week?

I’ve been thinking about setting goals for the new year, and I want to set goals differently this year than I’ve done in the past. I’m going to set two big goals for the different areas of my life, then work as hard as I can at accomplishing those goals throughout the year. I’m hoping that this will help me to focus more on my goals and make more progress than I did in 2012.

Here are my goals for 2013:

Spiritual Goals

Read through the Bible in a year

Pray diligently for my family and others

Personal Goals

Lose 40 lbs. by juicing, eating healthy, and exercising

Start waking up by 5:00am every morning. I’m going to start working at this goal in February when we should, Lord willing, be finished moving and living in a new place.

Marriage Goals

Read at least 3 books on marriage

Schedule at least one home date night each month

Family Goals

Have regular family devotions

Take lots of pictures

Homeschooling Goals

Concentrate and put forth a diligent effort in doing an excellent job of homeschooling our four older children

Read to the children often

Business & Blogging Goals

Grow our YouTube channels’ subscribers (both my channel and our family LEGO review channel)

Increase my blogging income by creating great content for my readers

Those are my goals for the new year. Have you set goals for 2013? I’d love to hear them!

Time is going by so quickly lately. We are in the middle of a major life change right now that I’m sure is making it feel like time is zooming by. I will post soon here on the blog about the change I’m talking about.

For now, here’s how I did with last week’s goals:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Keep up with adding one ornament to the Christmas tree everyday until Christmas

2. Make Christmas cookies! — I decided to wait to make Christmas cookies, because my daughter’s birthday was last week. We ended up getting a Disney cake for her, which for some reason was twice the size we normally get our cakes. My husband went in and ordered it, and he said the gal he was placing the order with never asked him what size he wanted. So we ended up with 1/2 sheet cake for our family of seven. Um, yeah. It is a delicious cake, and we’re still enjoying it!

Personal Goals:

3. Juice at least 3 days this week — We never got around to juicing. Things always seemed to come up.

4. Pray

5. Walk on the treadmill two days this week

Home Management Goals:

6. Create a menu for a little family Christmas party

7. Find a place where we can donate Elisabeth’s swing

Business Goals:

8. Work on client project

9. Write two blog posts

10. Hug my computer.

Here are my goals for this week:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Keep up with adding one ornament to the Christmas tree everyday until Christmas

2. Make Christmas cookies!

Personal Goals:

3. Juice at least 2 days this week

4. Pray

5. Walk on the treadmill 4 days this week

Home Management Goals:

6. Plan an activity for our little family Christmas party

7. Pack

Business Goals:

8. Work on client projects

9. Write 3 blog posts

10. Create one video

What are your goals for this week?