Goals

Last week was a pretty good week. I accomplished some of my goals, and I feel like I worked toward my goals more than I have in the past.

Here’s how I did:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Start a regular family worship time again (this usually involves singing one song, a brief Bible time, singing another song, and then prayer) – We didn’t do this exactly, but we did have a time of worship followed by watching a Bible message for Ruben and I while the kids watched a Bible DVD.

2. Make banana bread & banana ice cream with Breanna (the ice cream is simply frozen bananas in the food processor with perhaps some rice milk or vanilla protein drink mixed in with a little vanilla extract) – We made 2 loaves of banana bread, but we didn’t get around to making the banana ice cream.

Personal Goals:

3. Juice (as we haven’t been for the past 4 days or so) – We juiced.

4. Finish reading the ebook, Tell Your Time  (affiliate link) by Amy Lynn Andrews – (still not done) – I will finish this book someday. I just haven’t been making the effort I need to.

5. Walk on the treadmill at least 2 days this week – I didn’t do this, BUT I’ve already been on the treadmill today. 🙂

Home Management Goals:

6. Clean the downstairs bathroom – Done

7. Organize the bookshelf in the school room – Done.

Business Goals:

8. Attend at least 2 webinars that I’ve signed up for – Done.

9. Revise some of the content on the pages of our business website – Done. 

10. Create a sponsorship page for The Sensible Mom – Not quite. I created a page for advertising, but not yet for sponsorship. I would LOVE to be sponsored for a blog conference in the future. I’ve been blogging for 3 years and have never been to a blog conference.

And now for this week’s goals:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Continue working toward making family worship time a habit

2. Make banana ice cream with Breanna

Personal Goals:

3. Juice at least 4 days this week

4. Finish reading the ebook, Tell Your Time  (affiliate link) by Amy Lynn Andrews

5. Walk on the treadmill at least 2 days this week

Home Management Goals:

6. Unpack 2 boxes from the garage

7. Help the kids organize their room

Business Goals:

8. Attend 1 webinar

9. Apply for a blog sponsorship

10. Create a sponsorship page for The Sensible Mom

What are your goals for the week?

Life with 5 kids, I love it, but it’s tough, too. Lately, it has been stressful, and I’m looking for advice on how to make life ‘work’ while we run a business from home in the middle of breakfast, lunch, dinner, homeschooling, attitudes, wild boys, and cheerios on the floor.

But God. He is in control of it all.

I’m thankful for this, and I’m thankful that He has given us wisdom to set goals for ourselves to be better, wiser.

Here are my 10 goals for the week:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Start a regular family worship time again (this usually involves singing one song, a brief Bible time, singing another song, and then prayer)

2. Make banana bread & banana ice cream with Breanna (the ice cream is simply frozen bananas in the food processor with perhaps some rice milk or vanilla protein drink mixed in with a little vanilla extract)

Personal Goals:

3. Juice (as we haven’t been for the past 4 days or so)

4. Finish reading the ebook, Tell Your Time  (affiliate link) by Amy Lynn Andrews – (still not done)

5. Walk on the treadmill at least 2 days this week

Home Management Goals:

6. Clean the downstairs bathroom

7. Organize the bookshelf in the school room

Business Goals:

8. Attend at least 2 webinars that I’ve signed up for

9. Revise some of the content on the pages of our business website

10. Create a sponsorship page for The Sensible Mom

What are your goals for the week?

Last week was fun and memorable. My mom was visiting, and she got to see the way we do life here in Georgia.

The sweetness and the craziness.

She witnessed it all…in raw form.

Oh, the stories she’ll tell! 🙂

Really, I don’t have words to explain what it meant to have my mom here with us. We talked, went to the zoo, talked, visited the library, talked, and took the kids swimming.

Oh yeah, and we talked. A lot. I learned things about my mom I never knew.

I love that. I loved that I learned new things about my mom and our family that I can share with my kids.

My mom also got to witness first hand that changes we are making in our diet. She tasted delicious new recipes and the juices we’ve been making, too.

She watched documentaries and doctors talking about health and went home fully indoctrinated. I am sure my family at home in IL appreciates that. 😉

Anyway, I had a fantastic week last week, and I even managed to tackle some of my goals…

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Create a more structured homeschooling plan for Nathan & Breanna – Done. I decided to try out a method where we use blocks of time for the different school areas they have to accomplish, much like what is mentioned in the Tell Your Time  ebook. So far so good.

2. Fix and write in baby books – I fixed the books after David had made a bit of a mess of them, but I didn’t write in them.

Personal Goals:

3. Juice everyday this week – We didn’t juice everyday, but we did okay. We are off to a good start this week, though. We all (including the kids) had juice today, and I have some ready to go in the fridge. We stumbled upon a delicious lemonade recipe that the kids like. It’s simply apples and lemon in the juicer. That’s it. It tastes great, and we pour it over ice.

4. Start reading the ebook, Tell Your Time  (affiliate link) by Amy Lynn Andrews – Done.

5. Work on speaking more gently to my children and giving them focused attention when they are talking to me – This is a work in progress…

Home Management Goals:

6. Unpack 1 box from the garage – Done. 

7. De-clutter kitchen counter – Half-way done. I have some paper clutter that still needs to be removed.

Business Goals:

8. Post one blog post each day and start my regular posting schedule! – Not done, but I’m hoping for a better week! 

9. Return email/messages I’m behind on – Done.

10. Create graphics for new topics I’ll be posting here on The Sensible Mom – Done! Finally!

And now for this week’s goals:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Read 10 books to the kids

2. Write in baby books

Personal Goals:

3. Juice everyday this week

4. Finish reading the ebook, Tell Your Time  (affiliate link) by Amy Lynn Andrews

5. Cut down my coffee consumption to 1 cup per day

Home Management Goals:

6. Unpack 5 boxes from the garage

7. Organize master bedroom closet

Business Goals:

8. Post one blog post each day and start my regular posting schedule!

9. Redesign/update my design business website. I’ve been wanting to do this for a while now.

10. Use google docs to create new design questionnaires.

What are your goals for the week?

 

Hi guys! I know I haven’t been around at all in the last 2 weeks….I’ve been busy working on a couple of projects that pretty much consumed my blogging time. We’ve also been taking time to learn more about nutrition, and we are transitioning our family’s diet to a mostly whole foods plant based diet, which includes very little dairy and animal products.

I feel like all the changes we’ve been making for the last 1.5 years since we began learning a healthier way of eating has brought us here. For the longterm, we are eliminating meat from our diet, except for rare exceptions (holidays, vacation, visiting family, & the occasional Chick-fil-A :-)), and we are going to try to cut down our dairy consumption to only a small portion of our diet.

I’ll talk more about the diet changes we are making in other blog posts, onto this week’s goals!

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Create a more structured homeschooling plan for Nathan & Breanna

2. Fix and write in baby books

Personal Goals:

3. Juice everyday this week

4. Start reading the ebook, Tell Your Time  (affiliate link) by Amy Lynn Andrews * I never got to this last time I mentioned it *

5. Work on speaking more gently to my children and giving them focused attention when they are talking to me

Home Management Goals:

6. Unpack 1 box from the garage

7. De-clutter kitchen counter

Business Goals:

8. Post one blog post each day and start my regular posting schedule!

9. Return email/messages I’m behind on

10. Create graphics for new topics I’ll be posting here on The Sensible Mom

What are your goals for the week?