The Sensible Mom

Wow, where did April go?

Last month seems to have come and gone in a flash! I can’t say I’m sad about it. I’m glad it’s May and summer is near.

We have a fun staycation planned for later this month that we’re all looking forward to, and maybe I’ll share some of it in a future YouTube video. We’ll see. 🙂

Anyway, here are my goals for the next week or so:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Take David out for a special meal — My husband and I started taking one of our kids out to eat for a special meal each week throughout the holidays and we’ve decided to continue in 2022.

2. Do driving lessons with Breanna at least twice – She’s making good progress and driving around our neighborhood. We’re at the point where we don’t have to switch spots. She starts out driving and ends the lesson when she parks back in our driveway.

Personal Goals:

3. Lift hand weights 3 times

4. Walk at least 180 minutes — I plan to do this by walking on the treadmill and taking family walks outside on days when the weather is nice. The weather hasn’t been very nice this spring and I’m hoping a change is just around the corner. It snowed twice in April.

5. Read Bible

6. Journal twice

Home Management Goals:

7. Help Elisabeth go through her clothes and take out the items that can be donated

8. Work on our staycation itinerary

Business Goals:

9. Write a weight loss update blog post

10. Film, edit and upload a video to my YouTube channel — I think I may be ready to start uploading to my YouTube channel again, and I’m planning on possibly starting things back up with a classic Costco shopping video.

What are your goals for this week?

Hello, April!

Is this year flying by or what? I like it, though. I’m looking forward to sunny days and warmer weather.

In our garage, my husband has already started planting and growing seeds for the garden. He has a nice set up with grow lights and he takes care of getting the plants started so that when the time comes, they can be transplanted outside to the garden beds. We’re going to try to grow Japanese sweet potatoes this year, which is pretty exciting!

I’m also looking forward to all the cucumbers, and we’re going to grow Brandywine tomatoes, which we’ve never grown in the past. But I heard from a mom on YouTube that they’re quite good so we’re going to give them a try.

Do you have a garden or are you growing anything this year? Even if it’s flowers, I’d love to hear about it in the comments below.

In addition to the vegetables, we also grow annual flowers like marigolds, and we have several types of perennials in our landscaping that we’re looking forward to coming back as well. We probably have at least 7 or 8 rose bushes, and they are my absolute favorites! They’re gorgeous and bloom all summer long.

Anyway, here are my goals for the next week or so:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Take Isaac out for a special meal — My husband and I started taking one of our kids out to eat for a special meal each week throughout the holidays and we’ve decided to continue in 2022. Isaac wants to go to City Barbeque. I typically get a kid’s meal that comes with a small drink, a sausage in a Texas toast bun, and a kids-sized portion of fries for $5. I really enjoy this meal and it’s enough food.

However, I want to get something healthier the next time we go, so I think I’m going to get either a side salad with a lite dressing and a Texas toast bun to go with it (no sausage!) for around $4.50 OR I may get their “Pick 3 sides” meal where I get to pick three sides for about $8. My three sides would be TWO side salads with lite dressing and ONE order of fries. I guess I’ll decide based on my appetite that day. 🙂

  

2. Do driving lessons with Breanna at least twice – She’s making good progress and driving around our neighborhood now. On her last lessons, she did all the driving.

Personal Goals:

3. Lift hand weights 3 times

4. Walk at least 180 minutes — I plan to do this by walking on the treadmill and taking family walks outside on days when the weather is nice. The weather has been cold, windy, and gloomy lately and we even got snow over the weekend. LOL – Hopefully, it’ll start to warm up and rain less so that we can start getting outside more.

5. Read Bible

6. Journal twice

Home Management Goals:

7. Help Elisabeth organize her room

8. Fill a bag with items to donate

Business Goals:

9. Write a blog post

10. Edit and upload a video to my YouTube channel — Someday, I’d like to start sharing again on my YouTube channel. I’m honestly not in a rush but I still want to keep this as a goal for now. This is because I have a video that I have partially edited and I really need to finish it and just publish it.

What are your goals for this week?

Well, we had some beautiful spring weather earlier this week but, today, it’s dreary and cloudy.

I’m looking forward to this weekend when at least the sun will be out even though temps are going to hang out around 35 degrees. Oh well! At least it’s spring and lasting warmer weather is on the way.

Anyway, here are my goals for the next week or so:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Take Elisabeth out for a special meal — My husband and I started taking one of our kids out to eat for a special meal each week throughout the holidays and we’ve decided to continue in 2022. Elisabeth wants to go to Portillo’s. They have the best Italian beef sandwiches there and the proper way to order it is “dipped” so it’s nice and juicy. I’ll probably end up getting their gravy bread with an order of fries for myself. The gravy bread is basically the french bread dipped in juice without any meat in it. I ordered this the last time we went to Portillo’s with Elisabeth and I enjoyed it. So I’m still going to have a treat meal but it’s not as bad as it could be. 🙂

2. Do driving lessons with Breanna at least twice – She’s making good progress and driving around our neighborhood now. On her last lessons, she did all the driving.

Personal Goals:

3. Lift hand weights 3 times

4. Walk at least 180 minutes — I plan to do this by walking on the treadmill and talking family walks outside on days when the weather is nice. We’ve already had the chance to take several family walks and it’s been lovely.

5. Read Bible

6. Journal twice

Home Management Goals:

7. Deep clean the upstairs bathroom

8. Fill a bag with items to donate

Business Goals:

9. Write a blog post

10. Edit and upload a video to my YouTube channel — Someday, I’d like to start sharing again on my YouTube channel. I’m honestly not in a rush but I still want to keep this as a goal for now. This is because I have a video that I have partially edited and I really need to finish it and just publish it.

What are your goals? What’s the spring weather like in your area?