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.

• 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.  :)