Goals

What a weird year it’s been, huh? You hear a lot of people say that this has been the worst year of their lives, and while that’s definitely not the case for me (my worst year was in 2013 when my son was sick with an extremely rare disease), I can understand why people believe that 2020 is the worst year ever.

Let’s hope for much better in 2021, which happens to be right around the corner. While we wait to cross over into a new year, I want to get a few things done and I know setting goals will help make that happen.

So here are my goals for this week:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Shop for the items we need to celebrate David’s 7th “Transplant Birthday”

2. Work on Spanish with the kids

Personal Goals:

3. Lift small handheld weights 4x

4. Walk at least 200 minutes on the treadmill

5. Drink apple cider vinegar 4x

6. Journal 2x

Home Management Goals:

7. Touch up paint on the ceiling — not the whole ceiling, just certain areas

8. Fill a bag with items to donate

Business Goals:

9. Publish at least two blog posts

10. Shoot, edit, & upload at least one new video to my YouTube channel

What are your goals for this week?

Helllllooooo! It’s been a long time since I’ve written a blog post and I feel like I want to get back to blogging. I know there probably aren’t many of you that actually visit my blog regularly anymore (why would you?) but maybe I can get something started here again.

I felt the desire to start writing here once more after I made a recent update to my blog’s PHP (a scripting language my blog runs on). You see, these days, I rarely visit my own blog but I did the other day. And while I was updating things on the backend, I saw a message that I needed to update my blog’s PHP if I wanted all of my plugins to work correctly.

No problem, I thought. I had updated a friend’s PHP on her website a few months ago, with no issues at all. I could quickly log into my web host and update my PHP to a newer version and be good to go in minutes. No sweat.

Then I broke my blog. 😮

Yes, I followed a set of quick instructions I’d found online on how to update my PHP in HostGator (my web host) and when I subsequently refreshed my blog, I received the dreaded white screen with an error message. My blog was “gone.”

Okay, it wasn’t really “gone,” but it was no longer displaying because there was now an error created by the PHP update that needed to be dealt with in order to fix my blog.

Also, I decided to make this update around 1:00 AM. Why did I do this??? 😛

Now a year or two ago, if this would have happened in the middle of the night, I might have panicked. This time, I didn’t. I wondered if I should just shut down my blog and forget about it. I actually considered this and thought maybe I would just be done with my blog. Maybe it was over and I felt okay about that…for a moment.

Then I decided that I’d try to fix my blog and see if I could figure out my problem. If I could fix it, great. If not, maybe it was time to end it all. So I got to work. I started trying things and deleting files that I thought might be causing the error.

And after about an hour or so, my blog was back up and running! I’d found the problem files and actually made my blog better in the process because I deleted a bunch of clunky files on my web host that didn’t need to be there.

And guess what? In the process of trying to figure out how to get my blog back up, something happened. I felt a desire to start writing here again. It was an unexpected feeling but welcome. I found out that I miss blogging and I want to get back to it. But this time, I’m going to hold back less.

I’m going to write about whatever I want to write about and not simply what is ‘safe’ in the world of blogging. I’m going to be less politically correct and write about whatever I want. I hope you don’t mind. 🙂

Today, I’m going to start with something simple, my goals.

Here are my goals for this week:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Make a fall treat with the kids

2. Work on Spanish with the kids

Personal Goals:

3. Lift small handheld weights 4x

4. Walk at least 200 minutes on the treadmill

5. Drink apple cider vinegar 4x

6. Journal 2x

Home Management Goals:

7. Wipe small marks on the walls with a Magic Eraser

8. Fill a bag with items to donate

Business Goals:

9. Publish at least two blog posts

10. Shoot, edit, & upload at least one new video to my YouTube channel

What are your goals for this week?

I hope your week is off to a good start. It’s been a long time since I published a goals post and I feel like it today, so here goes! 🙂

Goals for this week:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Continue with Spanish lessons for the kids — We’re using a program that was sent to me called Whistlefritz and we’re enjoying it. It’s an immersive program which I like because that’s how I learned Spanish growing up. I was immersed in it and had no other choice but to learn to speak the language to communicate with my Mexican family members while we spent summers in Mexico for months at a time.

2. Read the Bible with the kids 3x

Personal Goals:

3. Do arm weight exercises 4x

4. Walk a total of 200 minutes on the treadmill

5. Read through the book of Hebrews in the New Testament

6. Journal 2x

Home Management Goals:

7. Wipe small marks on the walls with a Magic Eraser

8. Fill a bag with items to donate

Business Goals:

9. Return emails

10. Finish editing & upload one new video to my YouTube channel

What are your goals for this week?

Summer is flying by and I can hardly believe that school starts again this month! We homeschool so I get to choose which day we officially start, but I think my kids want to push that day off as long as possible. 😉

I’m planning on getting started around August 26th. When do your kids start?

In the meantime, I’m planning on working on my goals. 🙂

Here are my goals for this week:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Continue reading lessons with Elisabeth

2. Read the Bible with the kids 3x

Personal Goals:

3. Do arm weight exercises 4x

4. Walk a total of 200 minutes on the treadmill

5. Read 1 Corinthians in the New Testament and finish reading through Psalms in the Old Testament

6. Journal 2x

Home Management Goals:

7. Paint the banisters

8. Fill a bag with items to donate

Business Goals:

9. Shoot, edit, & upload at least one new video to our family YouTube channel

10. Shoot, edit, & upload at least one new video to my YouTube channel

What are your goals for this week?