Goals

I hope you had a nice holiday weekend. We enjoyed the weather and my husband grilled hamburgers, bratwurst, and skirt steak for us.

At night, we went outside with glow sticks and lit sparklers while we watched our neighbors’ fireworks. There was no need to leave the house. LOL

Many neighbors supplied the fireworks entertainment. 🙂

Here are my goals for this week:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Make plant-based chocolate chip cookies for family time

2. List things on ebay for one of my children

Personal Goals:

3. Email a friend

4. Walk at least 200 minutes between the treadmill and walking outside with my family

5. Bible: Read through 2 Thessalonians

6. Journal twice

Home Management Goals:

7. Write out a meal plan for the rest of the week

8. Fill a bag with items to donate

Business Goals:

9. Return emails

10. Edit and upload a video to my YouTube channel

What are your goals for this week?

Thanks to Zenni Optical for partnering with me on this blog post.

It’s been about a month since I’ve shared a goals post and I want to get back to it.

The reason I stopped sharing was partly that I’ve been focused on getting our family to a better place with our food choices and eating habits. We’ve decided as a family to move back to a whole food plant-based diet for the most part.

So we’ve been watching a lot of videos on nutrition and I’ve been checking out lots of books from the library to get ideas for foods my family can enjoy eating. My kids are all on board, and I think we’re all doing pretty great. We’re not eating plant-based 100% of the time since we still have lots of meats and foods in our freezer and pantry that are not whole food plant-based, but we are eating that way much of the time.

We’re seeing results, too. 🙂

I’m finally losing weight and we’re getting healthier as a family. I’m thinking about blogging more about weight loss. Maybe I could do an update once a month…we’ll see.

Here are my goals for this week:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Make healthy “ice cream” with the kids

2. Work on Spanish with the kids — We use the Whistlefritz Spanish program loosely. It’s a fantastic program that you can adapt to your family’s needs. You can go fast-paced with the program or slow. We’re taking things slow with lots of repetition and that’s helped make it easier for the kids to retain what they’ve learned.

Personal Goals:

3. Start wearing my new Zenni Optical prescription glasses so that my eyes get used to them — This is my second pair of Zenni Optical glasses, and I love the color and style of them. I bought my first pair online many years ago and was impressed with the quality. Those glasses lasted me a LONG time. I think the new pair Zenni sent me is going to be even better.

4. Walk at least 200 minutes on the treadmill

5. Bible: Finish reading through Mark

6. Journal 2x

Home Management Goals:

7. Wipe down the baseboards going up the stairway

8. Fill a bag with items to donate

Business Goals:

9. Film a new video for YouTube

10. Upload a new “What I bought in a week” video to my YouTube channel

What are your goals for this week?

I know I didn’t update on my goals last week, so I’m going to go ahead and do it this week. 🙂

Here’s what I accomplished:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Do life lesson with Breanna — This week I think we’re going to work on Breanna’s taxes. I’ve talked to her about taxes but she’s never had to file them before. Now that she has regular income from her YouTube channel, she has to file so I told her we’d be working on them in the near future.

2. Work on Spanish with the kids — We use the Whistlefritz Spanish program loosely. It’s a fantastic program that you can adapt to your family’s needs. You can go fast paced with the program or slow. We’re taking things slow with lots of repetition and that’s helped make it easier for the kids to retain what they’ve learned.

Personal Goals:

3. Lift small handheld weights 4x

4. Walk at least 200 minutes on the treadmill

5. Bible: Finish reading through Isaiah

6. Journal 2x

Home Management Goals:

7. Call insurance company to update payment method — I tried to do this online but it didn’t work out. So now I have to make a dreaded phone call. LOL

8. Fill a bag with items to donate

Business Goals:

9. Look into getting a new smartphone. — While I did look into the new phones available online and then went to the T-Mobile store to see phones in person, I still haven’t made a decision. It’s so hard to choose a new phone. They’re expensive and many of them have bad reviews. LOL Why can’t phone companies make better phones? If you have any recommendations, I’d love to hear about them in the comments.

10. Shoot, edit, & upload at least one new video to my YouTube channel — I finally uploaded a couple of videos, and I have one ready to edit and upload this week!

Here are my goals for this week:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Do life lesson with Breanna — This week, I’m showing her how to create her own Google Calendar and use it to stay organized and remember things.

2. Work on Spanish with the kids — We use the Whistlefritz Spanish program loosely. It’s a fantastic program that you can adapt to your family’s needs. You can go fast paced with the program or slow. We’re taking things slow with lots of repetition and that’s helped make it easier for the kids to retain what they’ve learned.

Personal Goals:

3. Lift small handheld weights 4x

4. Walk at least 200 minutes on the treadmill

5. Bible: Finish reading through Matthew

6. Journal 2x

Home Management Goals:

7. Call LG about fridge water filter reimbursement — LG gives us 50% of the amount we pay for a new water filter for our refrigerator. It’s part of the the 3-year warranty program we have with them on our fridge and we’ve taken advantage of the reimbursement several times over the past few years. I just hate that I have to call every time we need to get reimbursed. The customer service rep. on the phone simply starts the process and then the rest is done via email/mail. I wish they had an option to start the process online instead. Today, I waited on hold around 15-20 minutes before I hung up and decided to try again tomorrow. Oh well! It’s worth it in the end.

8. Fill a bag with items to donate

Business Goals:

9. Finish taxes

10. Edit & upload at least one new video to my YouTube channel 

What are your goals for this week?