Courageous Joy

Fitness goals for the week:
I will get that ticker for bike riding up to 200 miles by Sat. evening.

I will continue with 8 minutes in the a.m. and add weights as needed.

I will continue to eat food that enshrines the temple rather than vandalizes the temple. {G}

I will hopefully see the weight loss ticker move up to 20 lbs by weigh in next Tuesday. I doubt anything good happened this week as I only made it out for one bike ride this past week. Everyone seems to be doing well this week.

Education Goals for the week:
Move to summer schedule with Nolan, Arielle and Jared. This means that I will begin more concentrated phonics and speech with Nolan. I will make sure that Arielle continues with her language arts programs.

We’ll do some family math at least twice this week.

I’ll read *Toothpaste Millionaire* to Nolan and Arielle.

We’ll continue reading *The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe* to all the children/young adults.

I’ll make sure that Jared and Jamin have time to WRITE on their books.

Josiah and Jamin have 1 or 2 more weeks to wrap up their school year. They’ve been keeping things all year for their portfolios and I’ll begin making sure all is recorded to send to North Atlantic Regional Schools.

I’ll make myself read the pile of rough drafts on my night stand so that the boys can begin polishing them for a final grade.

Gatekeeper goals for the week:
We’ll continue to rework “Our Family’s 24 Ways”. This continues to bless our family. We have the old classic flip chart….I may need to spend some time investigating the NEW children’s coloring book…since Nolan and Arielle have been making notebooks…that might be less mess if I order 3 of them (Zander too); the older ones don’t mind the refresher course but have no desire to make a family way notebook. {G}

I’ll be on the lookout for teachable moments for both the children and myself.

I’ll pray for and with each child, daily.

I’ll look for meaningful ways (to THEM) to enter my children’s lives. (Don’t laugh this is a challenge with 5 young men in the home. I’m now lifting weights, riding bikes, discussing economics, trying to learn about channel catfish, trying to work up to being able to ride my bike to ABILENE, playing dinosaurs, playing :::shudder::: board games and playing killer whale at the pool. It was much easier to do lunch and shopping with the girls. {bg}.)

I’ll continue to offer healthy food choices and not freak when the children choose to live on toast, apples and carrot sticks. I won’t take the jokes about “dog treats” and “honey flavored cardboard” personally. They know not what they do.

I’ll be sure to take time each day to help Mike unwind from his busy schedule.

I’ll pay the bills and send off some offerings this week so that the heart of my husband can continue to trust in me.

I’ll bake “cookie dough” cookies and “skedaddle” (fiddle faddle) sometime this week.

I’ll dehydrate nectarines.

I’ll dehydrate more apples for the office.

I’ll give the house a good “weekly cleaning” and begin “deep cleaning” one room a week next week. I will NOT sign up for fly lady – she irritates me.

I’ll continue my private Bible study…realizing that God called me to THAT before any other study and quit putting it on the back burner for group studies I’m involved in. This ministry down time should not be squandered. God told me to study through the whole Bible and that needs to be my priority. But why can’t God set weekly assignment guidelines like groups do. {bg}

I’ll continue to lovingly and consistently deal with Stacia’s new temper tantrums.

I’ll be diligent in watching Zander’s food intake and lovingly and consistently training his strong will as well.

OK, I will lovingly and consistently DISCIPLE all my children this week (but those two have specific needs I’ve noted – not that I’m going to be the mama from h*ll to the other children).

MISC Goals – what are these anyway???
I’ll get the van in to Robert Lee (45 min) for them to see if they can figure out why it continues to die. Our dodge had 160K miles on it and didn’t die. Why does the new Ford die all the time? Mike suspects they need to replace the computer that controls the whole thing….

I’ll get my produce co-op order in to Heather.

I’ll get the SAGE June Splits email out.

I’ll get the SAGE newsletter out.

I’ll pick up the renewal for my thyroid meds from the clinic. It works best if you do that.

PLAYING GOALS:
How sad am I that I have to write play down…..

We’ll make it to the pool at least three times this week.

We’ll try to have a play date with at least one group of family friends if we don’t make it to the park.

I’ll be sure to have some cool movie here that all the kids will enjoy for Friday night.

I’ll continue to read during my down time.

I’ll make one phone call to an out of town friend….see I always MEAN to call all my friends and forget the time changes and don’t do it – but it is so refreshing to catch up on each other. Surely, I can get ONE in this week.

And they say that these are the “lazy days of summer”????? I guess I better make some daily goals but I plan to simply post this list on the fridge and cross one or two things from each category off each day. That should work.