How good it feels to have two days in a week that are good days, again. It's been almost a month since I've felt this accomplished. I'm excited to keep moving from here. Everything got "let go" from the beginning of the month, to the beginning of this week. And doing the work to get my family back on track feels really good.
Last night before I went to bed I wrote down the six most important things I had to do today.
Exercise was first
Laundry was second
those are my two main priorities right now, as I've made clear. And notice I said "was".......'cause they're done!!!
Third through Fifth are things for my business, and I've accomplished the first two-I'll have to wait to do the last until the kids cooperate (read: "take a nap!")
Sixth is a cost estimate I have to put together for my big project I'm working on for my mom. I'm gonna try to work on that next.
I've also kept the kids happy, fed, engaged in learning and entertained.
Today, I'm supper mom!
Up, up and away!
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Monday, January 28, 2013
Getting back on the ...... great balancing act.
Life is such a balancing act.
I have to admit my balance has been terrible this month. I burnt out right at the beginning of the month, just after my last post. Spent the next few weeks "hiding" from myself and my life, and the last week and a half buried in a project I took on that I was way optimistic about my ability to do speedily. I gave myself an unrealistic deadline, and the project is done, but it's been rough on my family (specifically on my kids and husband). I'm hoping to get back on the horse/wagon/etc, now that the project is "finished"
( though it's the type of project that could take me months, truthfully, with revisions and changes and edits...I'm helping my mom with blueprints for a house she's hoping to get built. Pray for her, if you have time, she's found a program that MAY help her to get a loan to rebuild, since her current home is falling down. And if you're feeling generous check out this site)
I worked out today. First time this year. My end of year goal is 500+ "miles". I have the Leslie Sansone "Walk at Home" DVDs and I LOVE them. The cool thing is she has free "sample" videos on her web site, so you don't have to buy the dvds to actually use her program. You walk in place in your front room to the rhythm of the music, and after a certain time she tells you you've gone a mile, two miles, etc. No treadmill, no fancy gym membership. Just me and my little girl and my TV. Awesome. I hope this is the start of a beautiful phase of my life. I want to have the energy to accomplish my goals, and the only way I'll be able to do that is if I regain my strength. That means working out.
"What about my laundry?", you say. It's a work in progress. It's worse than ever, right now, but I did get a load in today. Here's to reaffirming my habits and working on making them more permanant.
One load each day,
One mile each day-until I can do more than that, and then we'll make it more.
I wish you all luck in your endeavors, too!
I have to admit my balance has been terrible this month. I burnt out right at the beginning of the month, just after my last post. Spent the next few weeks "hiding" from myself and my life, and the last week and a half buried in a project I took on that I was way optimistic about my ability to do speedily. I gave myself an unrealistic deadline, and the project is done, but it's been rough on my family (specifically on my kids and husband). I'm hoping to get back on the horse/wagon/etc, now that the project is "finished"
( though it's the type of project that could take me months, truthfully, with revisions and changes and edits...I'm helping my mom with blueprints for a house she's hoping to get built. Pray for her, if you have time, she's found a program that MAY help her to get a loan to rebuild, since her current home is falling down. And if you're feeling generous check out this site)
I worked out today. First time this year. My end of year goal is 500+ "miles". I have the Leslie Sansone "Walk at Home" DVDs and I LOVE them. The cool thing is she has free "sample" videos on her web site, so you don't have to buy the dvds to actually use her program. You walk in place in your front room to the rhythm of the music, and after a certain time she tells you you've gone a mile, two miles, etc. No treadmill, no fancy gym membership. Just me and my little girl and my TV. Awesome. I hope this is the start of a beautiful phase of my life. I want to have the energy to accomplish my goals, and the only way I'll be able to do that is if I regain my strength. That means working out.
"What about my laundry?", you say. It's a work in progress. It's worse than ever, right now, but I did get a load in today. Here's to reaffirming my habits and working on making them more permanant.
One load each day,
One mile each day-until I can do more than that, and then we'll make it more.
I wish you all luck in your endeavors, too!
Thursday, January 10, 2013
A week in the life....
It's been a CRAZY week. We got our cooking for the month done on Saturday with a small bit of work left over on Sunday. Once again, I DIDN'T do the prep work the night before, so if I had, we'd have been done on Saturday. I'm also getting less than happy with the once a month mom website. The first month was great, the second month and last month the menus had SO many errors. But I've liked a lot of the recipes so far. I think we'll be ending our membership with them soon, though. Especially as we've made a lot of progress on our own software. Not as much progress as I wanted (blasted migraines!) but some good progress.
I've managed to get so much done this week, but not spaced out each day like I want to, but in big clumps of effort followed by days of tired....which defeats the point of trying to establish new habits. I've been so busy, it's been hard to maintain my habits. But I've gotten about three or four loads of laundry washed and dried today, and half of them folded -(I plan to get the other half tomorrow!)- which is more than I've done since Christmas (we were getting pretty naked, not that my husband minds.....but the neighbors.....I'm sure they would!).
Tuesday I spent the day at the University with a rented vendor table and was able to get 11 new bookings for my Mary Kay business, so excited! (It was a much smaller result than I had hoped for, so I've had to talk myself into being excited, but I am, it's a good start!)
I've gotten cleaning and laundry and Mary Kay and some organization done this week....and yesterday I crashed hard. Today I got back on the horse, but my house still looks like I took a month off..... oh well. I'll do more tomorrow, and hopefully I'll be able to report new bookings, better laundry habits, and more feelings of self joy.
I have to say, I feel like I am making progress at being more responsible. Maybe not at doing my habits EVERY day, regularly, but at actually being cognizant of the need to get them done, and steadily (several times a week) getting it done. It's more than I've done for years of my life, and I think that's a start. Someday, I hope to look back at this blog and say to myself, look how far you've come. And I think I will be able to. I keep telling myself I will.
I've managed to get so much done this week, but not spaced out each day like I want to, but in big clumps of effort followed by days of tired....which defeats the point of trying to establish new habits. I've been so busy, it's been hard to maintain my habits. But I've gotten about three or four loads of laundry washed and dried today, and half of them folded -(I plan to get the other half tomorrow!)- which is more than I've done since Christmas (we were getting pretty naked, not that my husband minds.....but the neighbors.....I'm sure they would!).
Tuesday I spent the day at the University with a rented vendor table and was able to get 11 new bookings for my Mary Kay business, so excited! (It was a much smaller result than I had hoped for, so I've had to talk myself into being excited, but I am, it's a good start!)
I've gotten cleaning and laundry and Mary Kay and some organization done this week....and yesterday I crashed hard. Today I got back on the horse, but my house still looks like I took a month off..... oh well. I'll do more tomorrow, and hopefully I'll be able to report new bookings, better laundry habits, and more feelings of self joy.
I have to say, I feel like I am making progress at being more responsible. Maybe not at doing my habits EVERY day, regularly, but at actually being cognizant of the need to get them done, and steadily (several times a week) getting it done. It's more than I've done for years of my life, and I think that's a start. Someday, I hope to look back at this blog and say to myself, look how far you've come. And I think I will be able to. I keep telling myself I will.
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
The New Year Re-Boot!
It's the New Year Re-Boot! So exciting. I'm glad I got a jump start on my goals by starting last month instead of waiting to get started this week. It's been both a brutal and a great week. Recovering from the holidays and how busy we were, having two really terrible migraines, spending some down time with my dear hubby and my kids, and buying new furniture. Some really great highs and some really great lows. This weekend Mike and I are sending the kids to the grandparents for the day and doing, together, our once a month cooking day. I'm really excited. Having him in the kitchen with me, and having the kids off to grandma's for the day should really speed things up, big time! He got me a deep freeze for Christmas, so we're going to have even more freezer space than normal, and I'm going to start stockpiling the infant food, and the instant toddler type recipes, also! So excited to do this, again. Last month didn't go well in the kitchen, and we didn't end up liking the recipes that were on the menu, so there's still a lot of things in the freezer that are....eat once in a while meals, not eat once a week meals. Next months menu looks much better. AND we're almost ready to start alpha testing our new freezer meal software. We've been working on it since Christmas, as much as possible, and it's looking really pretty.
I'm on my way to the basement to load up a load of laundry on the eight hour delay, and I'll finish it up in the morning. Today I also deep cleaned our family room, so it's ready for our new sofa and love seat to be delivered on Friday.
I'm so glad I'm progressing towards new goals.
Here's my short term goal for this week.
Get back on the laundry wagon (I fell of during Christmas, go figure!)
And once I manage to get laundry done each of the next three days, take Sunday off per the commandments, and get to next Monday, I'm then going to add 30 minutes of exercise to my list.
One Complete load of Laundry
and Thirty minutes of exercise.
I can do it!
I'm on my way to the basement to load up a load of laundry on the eight hour delay, and I'll finish it up in the morning. Today I also deep cleaned our family room, so it's ready for our new sofa and love seat to be delivered on Friday.
I'm so glad I'm progressing towards new goals.
Here's my short term goal for this week.
Get back on the laundry wagon (I fell of during Christmas, go figure!)
And once I manage to get laundry done each of the next three days, take Sunday off per the commandments, and get to next Monday, I'm then going to add 30 minutes of exercise to my list.
One Complete load of Laundry
and Thirty minutes of exercise.
I can do it!
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