Whew! It’s been a very full month of traveling and, while the trips were wonderful, I’m so thankful to have them behind me so we can get back to more normal life around here. I love quiet days at home!
Due to the extra tasks involved with the trips, I didn’t fare too well on my goals list last week. In fact, I ran a whopping total of two miles and only read one book.
But I did finish my talk and PowerPoint for the MomLife Bootcamp, host a reader meet-up in Texas, and enjoy two days of encouragement and fun at the MomLife Bootcamp. So that made up for it!
Last week’s goals:
Family/Mothering Goals
1. Finish reading Nate Saint plus read three chapters of Quest for Truth:Taken aloud to the children.
2. Continue our Countdown to Easter study as a family.
3. Write a love note to Jesse.Personal Goals
4. Finish reading One of Us Must Be Crazy and I’m Pretty Sure It’s You, Unshaken: Rising From the Ruins of Haiti’s Hotel Montana, and
Dawn of a Thousand Nights.
5. Complete week 8 of the Couch to 5K program.
6. Listen to at least one more hour of The 10 Habits of Happy Mothers.
7. Make a plan for Spring Cleaning our house.
Home Management
8. Clean out and organize all our homeschool stuff.Business Goals
9. Host a reader meet-up in Texas
10. Finish my talk & Powerpoint for the MomLife Bootcamp at the end of this week.
This week’s goals:
Family/Mothering Goals
1. Read five chapters of Quest for Truth:Taken aloud to the children.
2. Continue our Countdown to Easter study as a family.
3. Write a love note to Jesse.
4. Grow Easter Grass with children.
Personal Goals
5. Finish reading One of Us Must Be Crazy and I’m Pretty Sure It’s You and Unshaken: Rising From the Ruins of Haiti’s Hotel Montana.
6. Complete week 8 of the Couch to 5K program.
7. Listen to at least one more hour of The 10 Habits of Happy Mothers.
Home Management
8. Clean out our bathroom drawers.
Business Goals
9. Finalize the details for the live webcast next week.
10. Start working on my talks for the Midwest Homeschool Convention.
How did you do on last week’s goals? What are your goals for this week? I’d love to have you share your progress on last week’s goals and your goals for this coming week in the comments. Of, if you’ve blogged about it, leave your direct link below. Let’s cheer each other on to live purposeful and productive lives!
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angel says
Wow, you were busy!
I feel like I “Spring Clean” my house 10 times a year! I look forward to seeing what you have planned.
I’m going to check out the 10 Habits of Happy Mothers….sounds so intriguing!
My weekly goals are progress on my monthly goals.
I linked my March results.
Thank you for all you do and the opportunity to “meet” all of these incredible people.
Nicole says
What a busy month for you! While it is fun to travel, there truly is no place like home, is there?
Betsy @ Romance on a Dime says
Hello! You have had a busy month!
I accidentally hit the enter button on my cell phone. Link number 19 is a mistake. I linked up again #20, but I can’t see a way to delete #19. Can you do that for me?
Thanks!
Carolynn @ mylittlebitoflife.com says
Can’t wait to hear about MomLife Bootcamp! This week, I’d like to at least touch and accomplish something when it comes to the house, that’s the area I’ve really let go of these past few weeks! 🙂
Denise says
I’d love to hear how the Nate Saint book was and what your kids thought of it too if you have a few spare seconds sometime!
Crystal says
We really enjoyed it, though everyone was so sad about the ending.
Carol@simple_catholic says
I was off the goal setting (and keeping!) for a couple of weeks but doing my best to get back on track this week.
Thanks for hosting this link-up each week, Crystal. Even when I don’t get my goals posted, reading everyone’s goals inspires and encourages me to keep at it!
God bless.
Amanda B says
I am so glad that you made it safe and sound. I went to the DR many years ago and my eyes were really opened when I saw where they live. And yet, the nicest people you could ever meet!
Jessica says
Link number 3 takes you to some “health income” website 🙁
I clicked because it is also my son’s name- an unusual spelling.
Crystal says
Deleted. Thanks for alerting me to that!
Sally says
Crystal, you are so good at making time to read great books. I too am a busy homeschool mom and I just have to ask, when do you find time to read so much? I’d love to get through even one book a week…
Crystal L. says
For me, getting a Kindle definitely helped in the book reading department! It’s so easy to take it anywhere and just pick up on any book I want (which is great, since I have a bad habit of reading six of them at once lol). I easily read twice as many books now that I have an e-reader.
cher says
You are a real inspiration. I love learning from you! Thank you and God bless!
Karen says
I loved the book “Unshaken.” I stayed up way too late and finished in 2 days. I hope you enjoy it as well!
My biggest goal for the week: stay on this crazy, super regimented diet I’m on. Week 3 and it’s getting REALLY hard!
Lydia says
I need to get myself running this week. Getting off a little earlier and enjoying the sun should help!
Esther says
I always feel that when I write down my goals and don’t complete them I’m left so frustrated and it drives me crazy. Instead I end up not writing them down and also not completing them lol. I’m single and I don’t have children so I feel that I don’t have any excuse not to achieve all of my goals. After seeing your goals from last month, it made me feel like I could start writing my goals down again. It’s OK if I don’t achieve everything on my list.
Crystal L. says
I’m the same way Esther! Damned if you do, damned if you don’t! lol. It was especially bad before I had kids. I look back on that time period and can’t figure out for the life of me how I still never got anything done lol.
Laurie G says
I am glad I am not the only one who gets so upset about this. I have decided that apparently I try to accomplish too many things and that Crystal is indeed Superwoman. She gets so much done on top of her cleaning and schooling the kids. I am exhausted just homeschooling my 3 that are at home and getting my one with disabilities off to his class at public school. After that I am scrambling to get my house work finished. Never mind if something comes up or we have an appointment. It is so difficult to carve out time for extra cleaning or projects.
I think maybe my goal should be to have fewer goals. 🙂 Maybe I should start with fewer things for the week and see if I can get those done and move on?
FWIW, my hubby talk about when he was single too and how little he got done. I think when time is so prevalent, it is easy to fritter it away. I try to tell my children that, but I think you sort of just have to live that and figure it out?
Crystal says
Please remember that I have a team of people who work for me. I could never do what I do without them!
You have a LOT on your plate; give yourself grace, pace yourself, and just focus on what you are able to accomplish–not on what all you can’t seem to get done!
{Hugs!} to you!
Laurie G says
My last few weeks have been awful. Not getting nearly so much done as I want. But I did get through our homeschool stuff. That was funny when I saw it on your list last week, since it was on mine. I also took my oldest to get her learners permit. Yes, I am screaming, can you hear it? : ) I also got the front flower beds weeded, which was a job.
I wanted to ask and didn’t know where if anyone has any ideas for how to overcome the time change challenge. Each time it changes I am thrown for a loop and especially this spring forward several weeks ago – I have not been the same. Literally I cannot get my groove back yet for my getting up goal. I have almost given up and decided I will stay at the time I am now since in the fall it will be the time I wanted. Sigh.
I have tried moving my time back 15 minutes every few days, but it is like my body is on strike. I am still going to bed as early (an hour earlier since the time changed), but I cannot get up. It is darker now and that probably adds to it. If anyone else has a suggestion, please give it. Or if you can commiserate, please do that! I am feeling like a goal-meeting failure. Seriously, accomplishing that getting up and going to bed thing was like a miracle for me in my adult life and now it is gone. : (
Sara says
I seem to drag for weeks after the Spring time change! I cannot believe the one hour makes so much difference. I am starting to get back into my groove, but it seems to take forever! A lady at the park (who maybe saw me dragging after my kids) told me it takes two weeks for the average person to adjust to a time change….maybe we are just above average! 🙂
Stephanie says
So THAT’S what’s wrong with me….I’ve been in such a funk lately!
Jennifer says
You inspire me to keep running. I start and then I stop – have been doing it for years now! You have weeks where you run a lot and weeks where you hardly run at all – yet every week your goals included running. I have been very sick the past 8 days and haven’t been able to run. It would be so easy to stop and not pick it back up. But regardless of how long it has been it is still good for me and I need to keep doing it. I will try to remember to tell myself that!
Wendy says
I notice you always include “write a love note to Jesse.” Is it just a short note—-an “I think you’re wonderful” type deal or is it like a one page note. I’m just wondering. My husband is wonderful, but I think I wouldn’t know what else to say after a couple of weeks. 🙂
Crystal says
I am always amazed by how much you read. I used to before kids. Maybe one day…
Brynn says
You reach so many readers, I am so thankful that your goals involve top priorities like writing love notes to your husband and reading aloud to your children!!! I discovered several years ago that when I write, “Get down on the floor and play with the kids” on my to-do list, I would actually do it…sounds silly, but I am not the greatest at doing that, and yet they love it when I do 🙂
Crystal L. says
Hi Brynn,
I have to remind myself that too. It’s so easy to put other things first, even though this is more important. I think I’m going to add it to my to-do list too. 🙂
Victoria @Snail Pace Transformations says
My biggest goal of this week is to run 20 miles tomorrow for my upcoming marathon in April. This is the biggest run on the training schedule. I am already preparing for it today! Looks like I am going to have nice weather for the 4 hours I will be out there!
Diane says
Have fun! What marathon are you running? I’ve run 13 of them so far, every one is special and I have a 50 miler I’m planning to train for soon.
Brandy @ The Prudent Homemaker says
My top goal this week: Have a baby.
And there’s a very good chance that I won’t accomplish that goal until next week 🙂
Need A Nap2 says
Hope you reach your goal! Nice goal to have but timing can be unpredictable! 🙂
Brandy @ The Prudent Homemaker says
This is my 7th baby in 10 years. I always go 42-44 weeks, so there is a chance it could be this week . . .
But if not, that’s okay, too! I’m used to waiting!
Anna says
Love the Cranberry Almond Granola I found on your site. Very easy to make!
Wishing you a wonderful birth to both of you!
Mackenzie says
Definitely hitting my goal this month of wearing my pedometer every day! I am walking more steps and I have even lost a few pounds so far 🙂
Need A Nap2 says
Can’t wait to meet you at Cinci at the Homeschool Convention. Our whole family is going, first time to have all 4 of our kids in the kids’ program.
Tammy Skipper (@Tammy_Skipper) says
I’ve been a little frustrated with my progress but I’m determined to keep working this week towards my monthly goals. I’m curious about the book you mentioned, “One of us must be crazy…”
Mandy says
So glad you’re home safe and sound! What a big month for you guys! 😀 I’m so glad you got to meet my sweet friend Laura- she said she had the best time at the reader meet-up!! Hope you have a great and restful week! 😀
Crystal says
She was so wonderful to meet. Next time, I must meet you, though. 🙂