Goals

I didn’t get this posted on Monday, but since the older kids are playing with Legos and the baby is sleeping soundly in my arms (Yes, I can type, nurse, and cradle a baby at the same time. Skillz!), I thought I’d tackle this post. 🙂

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Continue reading through the book of Proverbs with the kids – Done, although we only read Proverbs one day last week. We have been getting together regularly to pray before bed, though. I want to work on getting back to a regular evening Bible time as a family.

2. Make homemade eye-makeup remover and deodorant with Breanna – Done! Breanna did a great job of making both the homemade eye-makeup remover and the deodorant. I haven’t had a chance to try out the eye-makeup remover (since I haven’t been wearing much makeup lately), but I have been using the deodorant, and it’s been working great. I’ll post more on both of these DIY projects later.

Personal Goals:

3. Juice everyday this week – Almost, we missed juicing on Wednesday and Sunday.

4. Start reading the ebook, Tell Your Time  (affiliate link) by Amy Lynn Andrews – I didn’t start this at all. I’ve been trying to finish up an important design project.

5. Start counting my calories again – I never made it an entire day of calorie counting, and I’m giving this goal up for now. I’ll try again when life feels a little less cluttered.

Home Management Goals:

6. Finish organizing and unpacking the master bathroom – Done! We can see the sink!

7. Unpack the 3-4 boxes upstairs and remove the clutter that has accumulated around my desk – I did unpack the boxes (whew!), but my desk is a clutter magnet…..bills, papers, coupons, notebooks, random items without homes….It would be embarrassing to show you what the floor around my desk looks like right now. I’ll spare you the pictures. 😉

Business Goals:

8. Post one blog post each day and start my regular posting schedule – Not done. I’m working on it, though. I had Ruben get my large dry-erase calendar up on the wall and my dry-erase board, which should go a long way toward progress with our design business and blog posting.

9. FINISH client project – this is a BIG goal, because this is a big project – Not done, but lots of progress was made.

10. Create graphics for new topics I’ll be posting on – Not done….

And now for this week’s goals:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Start a regular family Bible time and keep reading through Proverbs

2. Spend more focused time with each child

Personal Goals:

3. Juice everyday this week

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

5. Get back on the treadmill

Home Management Goals:

6. Help the younger kids organize their bedroom

7. Clear the clutter from around my desk and clean up the floor area around my desk

Business Goals:

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

9. Finish client project and return emails

10. Create graphics for new topics I’ll be posting on

What are your goals for the week?

Last week simply flew by. I think it’s because we were busy trying to get some of the final things we needed to get done ‘within 30 days of moving to Georgia.’ We had to make a second trip to the Georgia Dept. of Driver’s Services (we call it the DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles) in Illinois), because on our first trip only my husband was able to get his license switched from Illinois to Georgia. The reason being is that I didn’t bring my marriage license with me (only my birth certificate and proof of address) showing how my lastname had changed from my maiden name on my birth certificate to my married name on my Illinois driver’s license.

Ruben was fine to get his license, because he’s always had the same lastname. He didn’t need the marriage license. I’m not sure why they didn’t mention on their website that you need to bring your marriage license if you are a married women…..this information would have been helpful.

We also had to get new Georgia “tags” for our car. This is also known as a license plate & sticker in Illinois. Saying “tags” for these is so weird to me. 🙂

Nathan and Breanna started home schooling, too. We went over the laws for home schooling in Georgia, which are a bit more restrictive than in Illinois, but still totally doable.

We visited our new library. That was fun! The kids enjoyed it, and we are learning how to use their system. I love that the library is less than 2 miles away from us.

For my goals? I did okay. Here’s a recap…

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Start reading through the book of Proverbs with the kids – Done. We did this as a family, and we’ll definitely be keeping it up.

2. Cook with Breanna. I’m trying to have Breanna help me in the kitchen a lot more often now that she’s 9.5 yrs. old. We are focusing on having her look at and follow recipes on her own. She’s enjoying it. – Done. Breanna made 3 delicious recipes last week! This week we are focusing on doing DIY projects (our bathroom scale will thank me later :-)). After we moved in, I had Breanna made a double batch of homemade hand soap, and on the agenda for this week will be homemade makeup remover (for me) and homemade deodorant. I’ll definitely be posting about our progress.

Personal Goals:

3. Juice everyday this week – We missed juicing one day during the week, and then we didn’t juice at all over the weekend, but other than that, we juiced! We went to Publix and stocked up on veggies and fruits to juice for this week.

4. Pay Bills. – I paid some of the bills online, and then remembered that I needed to order checks for those I don’t pay online! I’ve ordered the checks, and when they get here, I can send checks out for the rest of the bills.

5. Start counting my calories again – I started counting my calories a couple of days, but then didn’t keep track.

Home Management Goals:

6. Organize and unpack the master bathroom – We are definitely getting close to the finish line here, but there’s still some unpacking that needs to be done to finish. My sweet husband did about 95% of the cleaning, organizing, and unpacking for me.

7. Unpack the 6-7 boxes upstairs – I unpacked all of the boxes in my office, and it’s starting to look so much better. I’ll post pictures later. We still have one box in our bedroom to unpack and then I forgot about the 2-3 boxes in Breanna’s room that need to be unpacked.

Business Goals:

8. Post one blog post each day – I’m still struggling to start my regular posting schedule that I had planned, but I’m hoping for a MUCH better week this week. 

9. Work on client project that I’m behind on – Done, but not done with the project. I did put a lot of work into it last week, and I can’t wait to show you guys when it’s finished!

10. Create graphics for new topics I’ll be posting on – I didn’t get to this goal at all. 

And now for this week’s goals:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Continue reading through the book of Proverbs with the kids

2. Make homemade eye-makeup remover and deodorant with Breanna

Personal Goals:

3. Juice everyday this week

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

5. Start counting my calories again

Home Management Goals:

6. Finish organizing and unpacking the master bathroom

7. Unpack the 3-4 boxes upstairs and remove the clutter that has accumulated around my desk

Business Goals:

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

9. FINISH client project – this is a BIG goal, because this is a big project

10. Create graphics for new topics I’ll be posting on

What are your goals for the week?

 

Last week went by so quickly. We did make some pretty good progress as far as unpacking goes, and Ruben was able to build everything that needed to be put together. So we are all sleeping in beds and not mattresses on the floor. That’s always good! And we even have a place to put our clothes, because the dressers are now built.

We’re down to one box unpacked downstairs (not counting the boxes in the garage that have things we don’t urgently need), and we have around 6-7 boxes to unpack upstairs. It will be my goal to go through these boxes this week.

Here’s how I did with all of my goals last week:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Spend more time talking with the kids and less time “doing” even though we have lots to do – Done.

2. Cook with Breanna – Done – We made “No Bake” Cookies following a recipe from the Deliciously Organic website. They turned out very good, and I’m freezing a couple bags of them so that we don’t devour them all in two days.

Personal Goals:

3. Continue drinking at least one homemade juice a day. We purchased a Breville Juicer before we left Illinois and started using it a few days ago. It works fantastic! And the juices are delicious. We had carrot pear juice today – just carrots, pears, and a little water in the juicer. I also made fresh apple juice for Breanna, which she says is her favorite so far. It was just 3 green apples, juiced. Nothing else added. – I didn’t end up making any juice over the weekend, and I really missed it. We’re looking forward to getting back to juicing today! Ruben is planning on doing a 2-day juice fast. I will drink it throughout the day with a normal diet, since I’m breastfeeding.

4. Organize my desk – Done

5. Start counting my calories again – I didn’t get around to counting my calories, but I’m going to try to start this week.

Home Management Goals:

6. Where should I start? Okay, I think I’ll focus on organizing and getting our master bathroom unpacked. – I WISH I would have gotten to this, but I didn’t. I definitely need to organize and unpack the master bathroom. 

7. Unpack the boxes and remove the clutter from the school room – Done

Business Goals:

8. Post one blog post each day – Because I was behind on a website project, and we were continuing to try to make the downstairs areas more ‘livable,’ I didn’t post as I wanted, but I’m planning on it this week. 

9. Work on client project that I’m behind on – Done

10. Create graphics for new topics I’ll be posting on – Not done

And now for this week’s goals:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Start reading through the book of Proverbs with the kids

2. Cook with Breanna. I’m trying to have Breanna help me in the kitchen a lot more often now that she’s 9.5 yrs. old. We are focusing on having her look at and follow recipes on her own. She’s enjoying it.

Personal Goals:

3. Juice everyday this week

4. Pay Bills. This is a pretty boring goal, but I need to force myself to gather up the bills and pay them. I think I mostly have them all in one place now. As you can imagine, we were getting ‘final bills’ in the mail from our old home in Illinois, and new bills have been coming in. They need to be tended to.

5. Start counting my calories again

Home Management Goals:

6. Organize and unpack the master bathroom

7. Unpack the 6-7 boxes upstairs

Business Goals:

8. Post one blog post each day

9. Work on client project that I’m behind on

10. Create graphics for new topics I’ll be posting on

What are your goals for the week?

I’m going to jump right in, since dinner is in the oven, and I have limited time to write this post. 🙂

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Spend more time talking with the kids and less time “doing” – even though we have lots to do

2. Cook with Breanna

Personal Goals:

3. Continue drinking at least one homemade juice a day. We purchased a Breville Juicer before we left Illinois and started using it a few days ago. It works fantastic! And the juices are delicious. We had carrot pear juice today – just carrots, pears, and a little water in the juicer. I also made fresh apple juice for Breanna, which she says is her favorite so far. It was just 3 green apples, juiced. Nothing else added.

4. Organize my desk

5. Start counting my calories again

Home Management Goals:

6. Where should I start? Okay, I think I’ll focus on organizing and getting our master bathroom unpacked.

7. Unpack the boxes and remove the clutter from the school room

Business Goals:

8. Post one blog post each day

9. Work on client project that I’m behind on

10. Create graphics for new topics I’ll be posting on

What are your goals for the week?