The Sensible Mom

Wow. Last week was an amazing week. So amazing and jam-packed because of the Savvy Blogging conference I attended that I was completely wiped-out on Sunday.

I didn’t even open my computer all day. Crazy, I know.

After we said goodbye to my sister at the airport on Sunday :-(, I came home and tried to be ‘normal’ but my body wouldn’t let me. I was so tired after the conference.

I think it was all the walking, standing with a baby, pushing her in the stroller, etc… that pushed my body over the edge. I was seriously exhausted and laying down every chance I could get.

In the afternoon, I was finally able to get in a nice long nap with Elisabeth and woke up feeling so much better. I finished the night out just hanging out with my family, and then got into bed before 9:30pm.

I was so inspired at the conference to start executing the things that I learned when I got home, and I know the only way that is going to happen (and allow me to stay sane) is if I start waking up before the kids.

It’s as simple as that.

I’m going to do it. I have to be in bed between 9:30pm – 10:00pm each night and wake up by 5:00am each morning. This is going to be a new goal for me this week.

Here’s how I did with last week’s goals:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Create reading goals for the kids. The three oldest will be doing the BookIt! Program.

2. Read to the kids

Personal Goals:

3. Buy a new dress – I haven’t worn a dress in over 10 years, so this should be an experience. I’m hoping to find a dress that costs less than $25 and that fits me well. I know that may be asking for a lot.

4. Read my bible everyday this week – Sadly, no, but I am confident that waking up before the kids will allow me to spend ample more time in God’s Word.

5. Exercise with the kids – Oh, yeah! My legs and arms got major workouts at the conference holding Elisabeth. Not that no one wanted to help carry her. So many wonderful ladies spoke to Elisabeth and wanted to hold her, but she wouldn’t have it. She is what is known as ‘attached.’ She won’t even let family members that she doesn’t see day in and day out carry her, which means Sarah couldn’t carry her, either. My husband was able to take her off my hands each day for a few hours, though, which helped SO much. 🙂

Home Management Goals:

6. Make more body scrub

7. Tidy up the house for my sister’s visit this week

Business Goals:

8. Go over the upcoming blog conference schedule with Ruben and make a plan for how we’ll work things – Ruben was able to keep Elisabeth with him in the evenings during the last conference, which freed me up to attend the evening functions, network and chat with my sister.

9. Attend a blog conference and network with other bloggers

10. Continue working on a project in progress

Here are this week’s goals:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Take at least 40 pictures of the kids this week

2. Go to the library and spend even more time reading to the kids

Personal Goals:

3. Juice at least 3 days this week – The food at the conference was so delicious. Wow. It was seriously good, and all the meals were included (along with all the coffee we could drink), and I ended up 2.5 lbs. heavier. I’m okay with that. 🙂 But I do want to get back to my normal eating habits and continue working on my weight loss goals.

But again, the food at the conference, fabulous! The coffee was supplied by International Delight, and we had like 12 choices of which type of cream to add to our coffee! Everyday. I don’t normally add sweet creamers to my coffee anymore, but I was at a blog conference, so I went for it. Mmmm….hazelnut.

4. Read my bible everyday this week

5. Wake up by 5:00am every morning

Home Management Goals:

6. Make more body scrub

7. Make a menu for what we’ll eat this week

Business Goals:

8. Start executing the things I learned at the conference

9. Blog about the conference

10. Continue working on a project in progress

What goals do you have for this week? 

Well, last week I didn’t get a whole lot accomplished as far as my goals went. I went to a blog conference, which was a lot of fun, but it didn’t help me to get much crossed off my list. 🙂

Here’s how I did with last week’s goals:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Create reading goals for the kids. The three oldest will be doing the BookIt! Program.

2. Be off the computer from 8-9pm when the kids are getting ready for bed (working on making this a habit)

Personal Goals:

3. Go to bed by 11:30pm

4. Read my bible everyday this week

5. Exercise with the kids – I’m counting this as all the times I walked around carrying Elisabeth at the conference or walking with her in the stroller. I got quite a bit of walking in last week.

Home Management Goals:

6. Make more conditioner and body scrub

7. Clean and wipe down the bathroom and kitchen sinks

Business Goals:

8. Go over the upcoming blog conference schedule with Ruben and make a plan for how we’ll work things

9. Attend a blog conference and network with other bloggers (After almost 4 years as a blogger, I’m going to my very first conference. So exciting!)

10. Blog at least 5 times this week

So as you can see, I didn’t get a whole lot done, and I’m thankful for fresh a new week! But it does involve another blog conference, so I’m going to try to keep my goals more doable this time.

Here are this week’s goals:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Create reading goals for the kids. The three oldest will be doing the BookIt! Program.

2. Read to the kids

Personal Goals:

3. Buy a new dress – I haven’t worn a dress in over 10 years, so this should be an experience. I’m hoping to find a dress that costs less than $25 and that fits me well. I know that may be asking for a lot. 😉

4. Read my bible everyday this week

5. Exercise with the kids

Home Management Goals:

6. Make more body scrub

7. Tidy up the house for my sister’s visit this week

Business Goals:

8. Go over the upcoming blog conference schedule with Ruben and make a plan for how we’ll work things – Ruben was able to keep Elisabeth with him in the evenings during the last conference, which freed me up to attend the evening functions, network and chat with my sister.

I’m hoping we can somehow do the same thing this week…although, it’ll be harder because we aren’t staying in a nearby hotel. Our house is about 50 minutes away from the conference hotel, so we obviously don’t want to get a hotel room and would rather save money by sleeping at home. But then there’s no local place for Ruben to hang out with 5 kids while I attend the conference in the evenings. We’ll see how things work out.

9. Attend a blog conference and network with other bloggers

10. Continue working on a project in progress

What goals do you have for this week? 

P.S. For those interested, I’m going to be posting short posts of the things I gleaned from last week’s Bloggy Conference. I’m hoping to get my first update post up today.

Last week was an interesting, out-of-the-ordinary week, with the book launch. It was fun, though, and I managed to work on projects and get some of my goals accomplished in the midst of it.

Here’s how I did:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Memorize the first two of the Ten Commandments (you shall have no other gods before Me, and you shall not make unto yourselves any graven image)

2. Be off the computer from 8-9pm when the kids are getting ready for bed (working on making this a habit) – I started the week well, but on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, I ended up being on the computer at some point during 8-9pm for work. I wasn’t on for the whole hour, maybe 15-20 minutes to check on some things. I’m going to back to being off the computer during this time, though.

Personal Goals:

3. Drink juice at least 2 days this week

4. Read my bible everyday this week – There was at least one day where I didn’t open a physical bible to read it, but having this as a goal has been very positive, overall.

5. Exercise with the kids

Home Management Goals:

6. Help the kids get a handle on the LEGO mess in their room.

7. Work on child-proofing, because Elisabeth is officially mobile.

Business Goals:

8. Decide whether or not to sign up to do Kindle Select for my ebook (basically, the ebook is exclusively available on Kindle for 90 days and Amazon offers some perks)

9. Fill out my author page on Amazon

10. Blog at least 4 times this week

And now for this week’s goals:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Create reading goals for the kids. The three oldest will be doing the BookIt! Program.

2. Be off the computer from 8-9pm when the kids are getting ready for bed (working on making this a habit)

Personal Goals:

3. Go to bed by 11:30pm

4. Read my bible everyday this week

5. Exercise with the kids

Home Management Goals:

6. Make more conditioner and body scrub

7. Clean and wipe down the bathroom and kitchen sinks

Business Goals:

8. Go over the upcoming blog conference schedule with Ruben and make a plan for how we’ll work things

9. Attend a blog conference and network with other bloggers (After almost 4 years as a blogger, I’m going to my very first conference. So exciting!)

10. Blog at least 5 times this week

What goals do you have for this week?