2008 Goals

Maggie — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:50:00 -0700

This blog is well overdue. John and I set up goals for 2008 and I wanted to share them with you.

1. Not to miss a day spent in the Word and prayer. Some days this may be just 5 minutes reading a Psalm, other days it’ll be a bit more, but I want this to be something that takes me through life I want to grow a passion for God’s Word and the best way to do that is to be in it.

2. For us to each lose 40 lbs. That’s less than a pound a week and we could both use it. To help me I’m using this website. It is designed for pregnant moms and a way to modify it for nursing. It tracks my calories and nutritional info and exercise. They also have another site here for those not pregnant or nursing (men can use this one too). This has helped me make sure I’m getting in all the food I need and I lost 4 lbs the first week! One of the greatest things about it is it’s free!

3. Homeschooling. We both want our children to be homeschooled, but I have not been diligent to make it happen. Granted our oldest is only 3, it won’t be long before she’ll need some more structured schooling. So we’re starting preschool today! I purchased this curriculum and printed out the appropriate worksheets and purchased some craft supplies.

4. I desire to have a better working cleaning/organizing system for keeping our home in order, this has also been one of the biggest pit falls for me to homeschool and many other things that I would like to do. I’m going to give FlyLady another shot.

5. We have a few financial goals as well. My part of them is to work on spending less money on groceries and household items. So I’m going to try my hand at couponing and bargain hunting. I’ve found some great resources here. This is exciting for me as I’ve always felt like I spent too much money on our groceries, but also felt like I wasn’t being extravagant and I was trying to shop the sales, so I’m going to give coupons a good 3 months to see if it’s worth my time. I think it will.

6. This isn’t a top goal, but I would also like to re-do my blog, maybe even get a different site for it and write regularly. But for now all of you will just have to put up with my sporadic posts about random things as the other goals are taking top priority.

PS I am going to be going through previous posts and using different names for our girls. The oldest will be referred to as Princess Olive and the baby will be Princess Peach. We want to protect them as much as possible and so this will be our new standard.

"2008 Goals" by Melissa (Hazeleyessue)

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:59:34 -0700

Hi Maggie! Kimm left me a message on my blog about you, so I decided to check out your blog. How old is your baby? My little boy is just over 10 weeks old. He was born on November 7th. Kimm said you had your baby about the same time. I am trying to loose 40 lbs too! I'm going to check out babyfit.com and see how that can help me! Stop by my blog anytime. I hope you are able to comment next time (Kimm said that wasn't working). One question though: are you finding time to exercise on a regular basis, and if so, how?1?

"2008 Goals" by kimm

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:13:54 -0700

My friend started a blog about her persuit to lose 40 lbs. I think your babies are right about the same age. click on hazeleyedsue on my m.o.l. list if you are interested.

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2008 Goals

"2008 Goals" by Melissa (Hazeleyessue)

"2008 Goals" by kimm