We didn't get to do Violet's surprise party tonight because she still has the flu. :( And I've had to spend all of my computer time hunting down the right house at the right price in the right neighborhood and we think we have. We made an offer on one tonight. All of my other goals are on hold right now.
Co-op starts on Monday, so getting prepared is a little stressful with everything else that's going on. Praying that we make the right choices with everything. Scatter-brained, scatter-brained. And so tired. I'll be back tomorrow--even if it's only a few lines!
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Wednesday January 19
Okay, so I've done very poorly today. No exercise. No housework apart from a few loads of laundry and some light kitchen cleaning. Ate a lot of leftover cornbread and had Red Lobster for dinner--Ranch dressing, fried stuff, and dessert. Spent most of the day searching the MLS and making notes. We got our loan approval today, so I'm chomping at the bit to view more houses. We'll get to go Saturday afternoon.
Went to the American Girl store to get Kit for Violet's birthday. She chose to have that over the traditional birthday hotel night with Mom, going out for dinner, and/or having a party. I told her I'd have to talk to her dad about it and we'd let her know Saturday night. Her birthday is next Tuesday, but on Saturday night, I'm throwing her a little party at our next door neighbor's. Violet drew a picture of her "pretend" birthday party and I'm going to try to recreate her picture, right down to the cake, the fireworks, the color of the giftwrap, and the Christmas stocking hanging on the cake table. ;) Our neighbors have frequent bonfires and the girls love to go, so she will be so surprised when she finds out it's for her. Can't wait! That's assuming that she is well by then. I had to reschedule my interview with the pregnancy crisis center (as a volunteer!) so I can take her to the doctor tomorrow. She's had fever that she hasn't been able to shake for a few days and she's coughing up a storm. Pretty sure it's turned into an infection by now.
We got home late, so I didn't do our bible reading and prayer with the girls, which made us all sad. Violet coughs through so much of it, though, that she's happier in bed.
I am SO excited at the prospect of having another house. If you think I'm neurotic now, wait till you see me with a fresh, empty house. We are going to move in VERY slowly, so there are no boxes and no STUFF piled up ANYWHERE! As soon as anything comes into the house, it will go to its home.
So I failed at my goals today, but wanted to make sure I made it here and I did. See you tomorrow. :)
Went to the American Girl store to get Kit for Violet's birthday. She chose to have that over the traditional birthday hotel night with Mom, going out for dinner, and/or having a party. I told her I'd have to talk to her dad about it and we'd let her know Saturday night. Her birthday is next Tuesday, but on Saturday night, I'm throwing her a little party at our next door neighbor's. Violet drew a picture of her "pretend" birthday party and I'm going to try to recreate her picture, right down to the cake, the fireworks, the color of the giftwrap, and the Christmas stocking hanging on the cake table. ;) Our neighbors have frequent bonfires and the girls love to go, so she will be so surprised when she finds out it's for her. Can't wait! That's assuming that she is well by then. I had to reschedule my interview with the pregnancy crisis center (as a volunteer!) so I can take her to the doctor tomorrow. She's had fever that she hasn't been able to shake for a few days and she's coughing up a storm. Pretty sure it's turned into an infection by now.
We got home late, so I didn't do our bible reading and prayer with the girls, which made us all sad. Violet coughs through so much of it, though, that she's happier in bed.
I am SO excited at the prospect of having another house. If you think I'm neurotic now, wait till you see me with a fresh, empty house. We are going to move in VERY slowly, so there are no boxes and no STUFF piled up ANYWHERE! As soon as anything comes into the house, it will go to its home.
So I failed at my goals today, but wanted to make sure I made it here and I did. See you tomorrow. :)
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Tuesday January 18
Psalm 94:19
When the cares of my heart are many,
your consolations cheer my soul.
I'm hoping that by the end of the year, I'll come to these January posts and see that I have come a long way. By the end of the year, I'd like to be settled into a house that's organized and that allows us to have guests and parties. I'd like to have lost at least 50 pounds. I'd like for our schooling to be running smoothly. I'd like to be spending a lot of time at home taking care of my home and family. I'd like to have deepened my walk with the Lord and to have begun to show my kids what a godly wife and mother looks like.
Today was a little better in only a couple of ways, but at least it was something.
When the cares of my heart are many,
your consolations cheer my soul.
I'm hoping that by the end of the year, I'll come to these January posts and see that I have come a long way. By the end of the year, I'd like to be settled into a house that's organized and that allows us to have guests and parties. I'd like to have lost at least 50 pounds. I'd like for our schooling to be running smoothly. I'd like to be spending a lot of time at home taking care of my home and family. I'd like to have deepened my walk with the Lord and to have begun to show my kids what a godly wife and mother looks like.
Today was a little better in only a couple of ways, but at least it was something.
- Get out of bed and get dressed to shoes by 9:AM each day and make sure that the kids do the same.
- Got up at 11:45.
- Drink a minimum of 8 glasses a water a day.
- 3
- Take a multi-vitamin daily.
- Yes.
- Make better, much healthier eating choices for myself and my family.
- Today I had a fruit strip, a GoLean Kashi bar, a mini peppermint patty, 2 bowls of red beans & lentils with rice and 4 cornbread muffins. I shouldn't cook things that I can't resist! At 4:30 am, I had a Clementine orange and a small Chobani that has chocolate sauce on the bottom. (Earnie still gets up for a bottle at 4:30!
- Walk a minimum of one mile each day.
- I did my 5 minutes of exercise.
- Cook dinner 5 days a week.
- Beans & Lentils w/ Rice and Cornbread
- Read from the bible to the kids daily.
- We read Job 18-19
- Pray alone and with the kids daily.
- Done!
- Spend a minimum of 15 minutes a day working on any part of the house.
- Spent that time looking up houses. Did 4 loads of laundry and re-cleaned the kitchen (twice, after the kids' attempts).
- I will seek out the joy and contentment that is always in my life, but that I can't always see...AND
- when I'm feeling just regular, I'll smile just for fun.
- I remembered once today. It feels nice. :)
Monday, January 17, 2011
Monday January 17 Prioritizing
James 1:22-25
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.
I've decided to attend to my blog after dinner and before TV to make sure that I don't get too tired and/or am not having to wrestle Earnie. No excuses for not blogging.
There's been so much going on in my head that I feel like I'm caught in a hurricane. I've not been letting good habits develop and have been dropping back into my bad habits as a way of pushing through external changes--not that I've actually gotten rid of my bad habits. Earnie, Violet, and Lillian have been sick. Friday, I slammed the back of my new van into the front of the Expedition. I've been researching and viewing houses that Daniel and I are considering buying. The more I think about getting out of this house, the more difficult it becomes to be in this house and the more difficult it is to motivate myself to do anything in the house.
Tomorrow, my goals are to do tons of laundry, to clear off the school table in my room so the girls can do their work there, and to get the kitchen cleaned back up and make dinner. I am still praying for my friends!
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.
I've decided to attend to my blog after dinner and before TV to make sure that I don't get too tired and/or am not having to wrestle Earnie. No excuses for not blogging.
There's been so much going on in my head that I feel like I'm caught in a hurricane. I've not been letting good habits develop and have been dropping back into my bad habits as a way of pushing through external changes--not that I've actually gotten rid of my bad habits. Earnie, Violet, and Lillian have been sick. Friday, I slammed the back of my new van into the front of the Expedition. I've been researching and viewing houses that Daniel and I are considering buying. The more I think about getting out of this house, the more difficult it becomes to be in this house and the more difficult it is to motivate myself to do anything in the house.
Tomorrow, my goals are to do tons of laundry, to clear off the school table in my room so the girls can do their work there, and to get the kitchen cleaned back up and make dinner. I am still praying for my friends!
- Get out of bed and get dressed to shoes by 9:AM each day and make sure that the kids do the same.
- Got up at 12:30.
- Drink a minimum of 8 glasses a water a day.
- 4
- Take a multi-vitamin daily.
- Yes.
- Make better, much healthier eating choices for myself and my family.
- Nope. Had several slices of frozen pizza. I don't think I ate anything else. Oh, a mini peppermint patty.
- Lose two pounds a week.
- Haven't been back to site since I signed up and I haven't checked my weight, but there is no reason that I would have lost any. I'm going to try to ease into the program with their "Simply Filling" foods as a means of building up to doing the points system. I have done no exercise, but I will try harder tomorrow.
- Walk a minimum of one mile each day.
- No walking at all today. :(
- Cook dinner 5 days a week.
- I haven't cooked since last Thursday. I will try harder to cook and eat here.
- School consistently for a minimum of 4 days per week throughout the entire year so that we can get caught up.
- Still light work.
- Read from the bible to the kids daily.
- We read Job 16-18.
- Pray alone and with the kids daily.
- Done!
- Spend a minimum of 15 minutes a day working on any part of the house.
- Worked on bathroom and bedroom.
- Volunteer as a client advocate at the Christian pregnancy crisis center in Greenville.
- I have an interview at 9:00 on Thursday morning.
- I will seek out the joy and contentment that is always in my life, but that I can't always see...AND
- when I'm feeling just regular, I'll smile just for fun.
- Sadly, I've been forgetting to do this.
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Saturday January 15
This post is just to say that I have 3 sick kids and have been house shopping the last few days. We're thinking about buying a house in Rowlett (maybe) instead of putting a Palm Harbor on the property. We're still going to keep the Farmersville property, though, and finish fixing up the house.
Oh, and yesterday I slammed the back of my new minivan into the front of our Expedition. It's ugly. :( Anyway, haven't been getting much sleep. Was good with water today, but not food or exercise.
Will share more later. Just wanted to get myself back on here.
Oh, and yesterday I slammed the back of my new minivan into the front of our Expedition. It's ugly. :( Anyway, haven't been getting much sleep. Was good with water today, but not food or exercise.
Will share more later. Just wanted to get myself back on here.
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Day 12 Try Again Tomorrow?
Galatians 6:9
And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.
Sick kids have a way of tossing plans out the window, but that's okay. I love taking care of my kids when they're sick. I love taking time out to nurse and comfort. Truth be told, I'm the one who tosses the plans when a kid is sick. I could work around it, but I don't want to. If a kid has to be miserable, isn't it so much nicer if he also has his mom's arms around him, getting her kisses and full attention while they watch cartoons together all day?
Two hours later:
It's almost 4:30 am now and I've finally gotten Earnie to sleep, so I'm going to sleep. Man, I really wish I could get my act together. I wish I could push myself. Why is this so hard?
And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.
Sick kids have a way of tossing plans out the window, but that's okay. I love taking care of my kids when they're sick. I love taking time out to nurse and comfort. Truth be told, I'm the one who tosses the plans when a kid is sick. I could work around it, but I don't want to. If a kid has to be miserable, isn't it so much nicer if he also has his mom's arms around him, getting her kisses and full attention while they watch cartoons together all day?
Two hours later:
It's almost 4:30 am now and I've finally gotten Earnie to sleep, so I'm going to sleep. Man, I really wish I could get my act together. I wish I could push myself. Why is this so hard?
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Day 11 Two Baby Steps Forward, One Baby Step Back
Today was not the big rush of changes that I hoped it would be, so I'm going to tweak my entries a bit. Inspired by a friend and beginning tomorrow, I'll begin posting when I get up, when I get dressed, and everything that I eat each day. My hope is that these true confessions will shame me into trying harder. I need to be pushed, not coddled. Keep praying for me and let me know how I can pray for you! Better yet, get a blog so we can keep track of each other!
No water; 5 minutes of exercise (don't laugh--I have to start somewhere); 2 loads of laundry, ran a couple of errands; ate chicken fried chicken at Black-Eyed Pea; read Job 11-12 and 3 chapters of the Corrie ten Boom story and prayed with the girls
My goals for tomorrow are:
House:
finish the laundry (is that really possible?)
Re-Clean the kitchen and dining area (The kids and I have very different definitions of clean.)
Clear off the school table in my bedroom
Clean my bedroom
Food:
Not ready to count points yet, but my goal for tomorrow is to re-think every food choice and reach for something healthy each time I eat and to write down everything that I eat
Cook dinner
Drink water as often as I can
Other:
Job 13-14
Finish Corrie ten Boom book
Pray alone
Pray with kids
Exercise for 5 minutes (I said don't laugh!)
Be completely dressed by noon!
No water; 5 minutes of exercise (don't laugh--I have to start somewhere); 2 loads of laundry, ran a couple of errands; ate chicken fried chicken at Black-Eyed Pea; read Job 11-12 and 3 chapters of the Corrie ten Boom story and prayed with the girls
My goals for tomorrow are:
House:
finish the laundry (is that really possible?)
Re-Clean the kitchen and dining area (The kids and I have very different definitions of clean.)
Clear off the school table in my bedroom
Clean my bedroom
Food:
Not ready to count points yet, but my goal for tomorrow is to re-think every food choice and reach for something healthy each time I eat and to write down everything that I eat
Cook dinner
Drink water as often as I can
Other:
Job 13-14
Finish Corrie ten Boom book
Pray alone
Pray with kids
Exercise for 5 minutes (I said don't laugh!)
Be completely dressed by noon!
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