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!

• 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.