Day 3 Baby Steps

Romans 12:12
Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.

Happy Birthday, Emily!

Okay, I tend to want everything to be perfect right away, but rarely does my life actually even come close.  So I'm going to push through this increasingly annoying migraine and share my progress, the baby steps that my sweet friends and family encourage me to take.

• No more excuses.  Find and eliminate the catalysts for my excuse-making.
• Making progress.  I called the doctor's office and set up an appointment for Thursday morning to discuss my prescriptions and fatigue.
• Get out of bed and get dressed to shoes by 9:AM each day and make sure that the kids do the same.
• Turned off my alarm without thinking and didn't wake up until Earnie did at 11:00.  This will be one of my most difficult challenges--it has been all my life.
• Drink a minimum of 8 glasses a water a day.
• Only 2 glasses today.  Will do better tomorrow.
• Take a multi-vitamin daily.
• Keep forgetting.  Going to print my list tonight and keep it with me and hang it up about the house.
• Make better, much healthier eating choices for myself and my family.
• Not perfect, but better.  I really want to sign up for WW online, but it doesn't support Chrome, so I'm sure if I would use it as much as I need to.  Still mulling it over.  Asked my mom if she wants to do it with me, but she's rather noncommittal.  Going to ask Daniel, too.  I'll start reporting my points when I start the program.  Ordered a scale today.
• Lose two pounds a week.
• I really want this to happen, so I'm going to have to get better with eating and walking.
• Walk a minimum of one mile each day.
• No walking at all today.  :(
• Cook dinner 5 days a week.
• I cooked tonight!  Chicken and veggie stir-fry w/ brown rice.
• Stick to the household budget that Daniel and I have agreed upon.
• Still working that out....
• School consistently for a minimum of 4 days per week throughout the entire year so that we can get caught up.
• Starting the Farmersville co-op Friday and starting home school on Monday.
• Read from the bible to the kids daily.
• We read Job 1-2.
• Pray alone and with the kids daily.
• I sort of pray throughout the day, but I will pray more later and I did pray with the kids tonight after our bible reading and our missionary biography reading.  Corrie ten Boom this time.
• Spend a minimum of 15 minutes a day working on any part of the house.
• Did 7 loads of laundry and a little work in the living room.
• Volunteer as a client advocate at the Christian pregnancy crisis center in Greenville.
• Planning to call Weds.  Didn't want to call the first Monday after the holidays.
• 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.

That's all I have today.  Just trying to report even when I don't want to!

Praying for E and D.  Let me know if and how I can pray for you!