Goals

Well, it’s been a while since I’ve shared a goals post but I’m hoping that someday I’ll make updating each week a habit. 😉

Anyway, here are my goals for this week:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Work on family travel plans — We’d like to visit Florida before the year is over. We love it there and right now it’s our second favorite place to be outside of our home state of Illinois.

2. Read the Bible with the kids at least 4x

Personal Goals:

3. Email a friend

4. Walk a total of 120 minutes on the treadmill

5. Finish reading the book of Hebrews in the New Testament and read Psalms 66 to 75 in the Old Testament

6. Journal 2x

Home Management Goals:

7. Unpack 1 box in the garage

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?

Well, so much for updating my goals each week! I’m still going to work on it, though.

I just need to still down and get this post written on either Sunday night or Monday, but there’s life and cooking and cleaning and distractions that call my attention…

Oh, well! We’ll see how next week goes. 🙂

Hopefully, I’ll update and make new goals before 3 weeks go by again.

Here’s what I accomplished since my last update:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Take my oldest son to pick out new frames and order glasses — He has his new glasses and they’ve worked out well. We ordered them from the Walmart Vision Center.

2. Go outside with the kids at least 4 days this week — I’ve consistently been getting outside with the kids at least 5 days or more each week. Sadly, today we had thunderstorms going on, so we weren’t able to get outside this evening but we did squeeze in a little time outdoors earlier today in between the rainstorms.

Personal Goals:

3. Email a friend

4. Walk a total of 120 minutes on the treadmill

5. Finish reading the book of Philippians in the New Testament and read Psalms 35 to 53 in the Old Testament

6. Journal 2x

Home Management Goals:

7. Unpack 2 boxes — We have our essentials all unpacked so I need to work on unpacking more of the boxes we took out of our storage unit. Thankfully, we were able to get everything in our storage unit moved over to our new home last month and we’re no longer paying for storage. Yay! For now, we put things from the storage unit in our garage, and I’m working on getting it put away, organized or donated from there.

8. Fill a bag with items to donate

Business Goals:

9. Shoot, edit, & upload at least one new video to our family YouTube channel — I want to get this channel sort of “restarted” soon and plan on filming a video this week.

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

Here are my goals for this week:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Visit our new local library and get library cards

2. Read the Bible with the kids at least 4x

Personal Goals:

3. Email a friend

4. Walk a total of 120 minutes on the treadmill

5. Finish reading books 1 Timothy and 2 Timothy in the New Testament and read Psalms 54 to 65 in the Old Testament

6. Journal 2x

Home Management Goals:

7. Unpack 2 boxes

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?

Well, the past few weeks have been rough. I ended up getting sick and that sickness turned into the worst bronchitis I’ve ever experienced. It was horrible, and I’m still not over the coughing portion of it. But, I’m feeling much better overall and finally feel mostly like my old self again…other than my cough that’s the worst in the morning and at night.

I’ve eaten around 100 cough drops, diffused essential oils, and generally just tried to survive with the help of my family. Thankfully, by God’s grace, I made it through this illness and hope to never go through anything like it again. It was awful! 😮

Now that I’m feeling better and we’re pretty settled into our new home, I want to get back to setting goals and working toward them each week. I’m hoping to make updating my goals a weekly habit. We’ll see how it goes! 🙂

Here are my goals for this week:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Take my oldest son to pick out new frames and order glasses

2. Go outside with the kids at least 4 days this week

Personal Goals:

3. Email a friend

4. Walk a total of 120 minutes on the treadmill — We finally have a treadmill again! I’m so excited! It arrived in a huge box last Friday and my husband put it together that night. The kids have already started walking on it regularly without my prompting. We loved our old treadmill and literally used it to death. I’m glad to finally have a replacement.

5. Finish reading the book of Philippians in the New Testament and read Psalms 35 to 53 in the Old Testament

6. Journal 2x

Home Management Goals:

7. Unpack 2 boxes — We have our essentials all unpacked so I need to work on unpacking more of the boxes we took out of our storage unit. Thankfully, we were able to get everything in our storage unit moved over to our new home last month and we’re no longer paying for storage. Yay! For now, we put things from the storage unit in our garage, and I’m working on getting it put away, organized or donated from there.

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?

Last week was one of those weeks where things really didn’t turn out as planned, and I’m still trying to catch up. Thankfully, it’s a new week…

Here’s what I accomplished:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Do Bible devotions with the kids 4x

2. Visit the library — The library has been an invaluable resource this school year, and I know we’ve saved so much money by utilizing our local libraries more now than we ever did in the past. It’s nice to buy books and have shelves full of books in your home, but then again, in most cases, it’s nicer to be able to check out books for free and return them when you’re done.

Personal Goals:

3. Work on April budget

4. Exercise with dumbbells 3x

5. Read the book of Luke in the New Testament and read Psalms 3 to 34 in the Old Testament — I’m not finished reading through Luke so I’ll work on reading the rest of the way through this week.

6. Journal 2x

Home Management Goals:

7. Clean up and organize the table where Elisabeth plays

8. Fill one bag with items to donate and drop it off

Business Goals:

9. Return emails

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

Here are my goals for this week:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Read the resurrection story of Jesus to the kids

2. Take the younger kids to Easter egg hunts — I signed our younger kids up for egg hunts through our local park district, and they’re just for fun. Our kids know we truly celebrate Easter because of Jesus’ resurrection from the dead. They know that He is risen and is our only hope for salvation in this world.

Personal Goals:

3. Meet with a friend

4. Exercise with dumbbells 3x

5. Finish reading the book of Luke in the New Testament

6. Journal 2x

Home Management Goals:

7. Clean up and organize the table where Elisabeth plays

8. Fill one bag with items to donate and drop it off

Business Goals:

9. Finish writing a sponsored blog post

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

What are your goals for this week?