Goals for the Week

Last week's goals:

Spiritual Health

Finish reading the book of Romans.

 Marriage

Cook a special dinner and eat in candlelight with Josiah after the kids are in bed.

I was hoping it would happen on the weekend, but it didn't work out, hopefully this week it will!

Children

Work on fall chore schedules.

Homemaking

Pull out my autumn decorations and decorate the house.

Hospitality/Friendship

Mail a few packages off to friends who recently had babies.

 

Fitness

Jog 1x, do Pilates once, and bike 20 miles.

Jogged once and biked 10 miles.

 Minimalist Living

De-clutter my sewing stuff and my vase cabinet.

Work

Study hand motions for the Timeline Song and history chants.

 

 

 

This week's goals:

 

Spiritual Health

Read half of the book of Luke and ponder the things I've learned over the last several months of our pastor's sermons on Luke.

Marriage

Cook a special dinner and eat in candlelight with Josiah after the kids are in bed.

Children

Plan a "Movie Date" in the living room with them where we have special snacks and watch a fun family movie together.  This is something they keep asking to do and we've haven't gotten around to.

Homemaking

Put summer stuff in the shed (fan, coolers, swim toys, etc.)

Hospitality/Friendship

Take a birthday gift to a friend having a birthday this week.

 

 

Fitness

Jog 3x to get ready for a 5K coming up.

Minimalist Living

De-clutter my vase cabinet and take a load to the thrift store.

Work

Prepare for a Senior Photo Shoot I'll be doing this month.

Goals for the Week

 

Once or twice a week we visit a nearby canyon to play in the river and hang out with friends.

 

 

Last Week's Goals:

 

 

Spiritual Health

Finish reading the book of Romans.

Marriage

 Play Skip-Bo with Josiah one evening.

Children

Figure out math lessons for the kids.

After last week's practice run, I realized we need to change up our math.

We're going to try oral math lessons led by me, and we're also going to try Life of Fred math books.

 

Update:  LOVE Life of Fred books so far!

Homemaking

Shampoo the living room carpet.

Hospitality/Friendship

Take "Back to School" pics of my kids and my friends' kids.

Fitness

Jog 1x and bike 20 miles.

Jogged once, biked 10 miles, and went on another bike ride pulling kids.

Minimalist Living

Put all the boys' things in their room in the shed or out of reach.

After watching them procrastinate for 7 hours, refusing to work on their room even though it meant skipping a few meals, to clean up a room that would have taken 10 minutes to clean had they been motivated, I decided they aren't capable of having books, toys, legos, etc. in their room.

Work

Do a practice run of Week #1's Classical Conversations lessons so I'm ready to tutor next week when it starts.

 

 

 

Goals for this week:

Spiritual Health

Finish reading the book of Romans.

 

Marriage

Cook a special dinner and eat in candlelight with Josiah after the kids are in bed.

Children

Work on fall chore schedules.

Homemaking

Pull out my autumn decorations and decorate the house.

Hospitality/Friendship

Mail a few packages off to friends who recently had babies.

Fitness

Jog 1x, do Pilates once, and bike 20 miles.

 

Minimalist Living

De-clutter my sewing stuff and my vase cabinet.

 

Work

Study hand motions for the Timeline Song and history chants.

Goals for the Week

 

Last week I took a break from making and reaching goals so I could have some time to unwind after a busy summer.  I'm feeling refreshed and ready to "jump back on the horse" with goals.  I'm reading an INCREDIBLE book right now called The ONE Thing by Gary Kellar, and it has inspired me to pick just ONE thing to focus on in each area for greater success and simplicity of purpose.

I highly, highly recommend you read this book!  It's one of my favorite reads this year!

 

 

Spiritual Health

Read the book of Romans.

 

Marriage

Enjoy a date weekend with my hubby as my mom takes the kids camping at the lake for a couple of days.  Time without the kids?  RARE!  AMAZING!

Children

Begin doing 1-2 hours of school today this week in preparation for our "real" start of school next Monday.

Homemaking

Catch up on laundry.

Hospitality/Friendship

 

Take a gift to a friend who just had a baby.

Fitness

Bike 30 miles on my stationary bike.

 

Minimalist Living

Sell some things on the local Mom Swap Page.

Work

 

Do a practice run of Week #1's Classical Conversations lessons so I'm ready to tutor next week when it starts.

 

Goals for the Week

Last Week's Goals

Spiritual Health

1. Read through the book of Acts

Finished a little over half of the book.

2. Catch up on Bible Study chapters/homework.

3. Study theology in prep for a couple of different discussions with friends, for fun!

 

Marriage

 

4. Give my husband a really nice massage with essential oils as he's been having shoulder pain.

Children

3. Finish our read-aloud this week.

4. Have the kids deep-clean their bedrooms which look like the sites of a bean-bag explosion and a bead tornado.

 

Homemaking

5. Wash all the sleeping bags and laundry from our camping trip.

6. Clean the guest room out when company leaves.

Hospitality/Friendship

7. Visit a cousin and her sweet kids in another town, a fun "summer get-together" both of our kids requested this year.

8. Write to our sponsored child, Worke.

9. Water my mom's garden for her while she's out of town.

Ended up not needing to do this, since my Dad, who was supposed to do it, actually did it!

Fitness

9. Be in bed every night at 11pm.

Most nights, but not all!

 

10. Do Pilates 1x, go for two 20-30 min. walks, jog 1x

 

Only jogged once!  I was pretty tired and not feeling 100% this week so exercise got put off.

Minimalist Living

11. Delete 2,000 photos.

I got on a roll and deleted at least 10,000 photos. 

But still hundreds of thousands more to go!

 

12. Re-organize the homeschool closet.

Came away with another apple-box full of stuff to get rid of.

 

Other

13. Wrap Justus' birthday gift and prepare birthday meals/decorations for his family party on Friday.

14. Tally my receipts and figure out my monthly budget.

 

 

 

 

This week's goal:

 

 

Have fun!!!

 

After 3 straight weeks of hosting company and being as busy as bees, I'm taking a week of Sabbath to be refreshed before we begin the rigors of academics again.  So, my goal for this week is to rest, relax, enjoy the kids, read a lot of fun books to them, play some board games with them, have lots of playdates and try to beat the heat as it is supposed to be 95 every day this week.  Of course, as a Mom, I'm never truly "off duty" and there will be plenty of things I need to do, like the never-ending mountain of laundry, but I'm going to have a week of calm and rest insofar as I'm able!