Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand; do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.
Okay, first my idea--I want my friends who are also struggling with keeping their resolutions and who are trying to discipline themselves to make their own blogs so that we can have a blog ring to encourage and challenge each other. You don't have to consider yourself a "writer" to do it--you can even just have a list that you daily check off or fill in. It's really so easy to set up the blog. I couldn't believe how easy. I was reading another blog and there was a link to make my own blog. I filled in a short, quick registration, picked a name that wasn't taken, picked a background, then clinked on "New Post" which just brought up a text box. I type the text, click on Preview to see how it looks, then click Publish Post. SO EASY! Who's in? I'll even set up the account for you!
Now, I've had a pretty good weekend. Yesterday, I didn't get up early to walk. My new wonderdrug is making it difficult to get to sleep at night, but I'm hoping that will wear off. (Last night was better.) We cleaned the church, went to lunch with friends, went to Lowe's for paint, ran another errand, then home. We got home around 6:30 and Violet went right to bed in her clothes--for the second night in a row! I didn't read and pray with the girls last night. I did drink my minimum water goal.
We went to bed last night pretty sure wee wouldn't be able to go to church because of the weather and we were right. When I got up at 7, everything was covered in a layer of ice and it was still coming down, so we went back to bed. :) By 10:00, we were in a real snowstorm! We got at least 4 inches today. The girls spent a good while outside and Daniel, Earnie, and I spent the day in bed watching football. It was pretty nice!
I'm going to try to get some areas of the living room and kitchen painted this week--that's what the trip to Lowe's was for. I'm praying that I stay motivated. I'm just really antsy right now to have some order in my life! And now on to today's stats:
- Get out of bed and get dressed to shoes by 9:AM each day and make sure that the kids do the same.
- Snow days don't count! ;)
- Drink a minimum of 8 glasses a water a day.
- 10!
- Take a multi-vitamin daily.
- Did it!
- Make better, much healthier eating choices for myself and my family.
- Not a great job today. I made good choices with the yogurt and fruit strips and bad choices with the bag of chips and the candy.
- Lose two pounds a week.
- I finally signed up for Weight Watchers Online today and I'm so scared of failing. Or succeeding. I honestly don't know which, but I am anxious. I will try very hard to start tomorrow. Sundays will be my "weigh" days.
- Walk a minimum of one mile each day.
- No walking at all today. :(
- Cook dinner 5 days a week.
- I made a mini-Thanksgiving meal today for fun--roast turkey breast, cornbread stuffing, gravy, mashed sweet potatoes, and sweet peas with pumpkin pie for dessert. Oh, and I also just happened to have a can of cranberry sauce. :P
- Stick to the household budget that Daniel and I have agreed upon.
- Will begin that Jan 14th.
- School consistently for a minimum of 4 days per week throughout the entire year so that we can get caught up.
- We're starting up with light work this week (1) to ease into it again and (2) so I can have a little extra time to do some painting.
- Read from the bible to the kids daily.
- We read Job 9-10.
- Pray alone and with the kids daily.
- Done!
- Spend a minimum of 15 minutes a day working on any part of the house.
- None today. I get Sundays off.
- Volunteer as a client advocate at the Christian pregnancy crisis center in Greenville.
- The paperwork is filled out and ready to mail.
- 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.
- Who doesn't smile on a snow day? :)
Alright, sweet friends, now start blogging! I will daily pray for any friend who joins me! With this I am faithful!
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