Monday Motivation

(with photos from my new CAMERA!  YAY!!!)

 

Monday Motivation Review

10 Goals for January 30-Feb 5

Prayer and Community

1. Read the daily Mass readings 3x this week.

2. Pray a decade of the Rosary with the children. Did and we were able to pray for all the intentions of the B family, since we have a monthly family rosary intentions with Steven's dad's extended family.

3. Set up our house blessing with Fr. Bill and invite a few families.  Set this up for next Saturday!  Invited one family who can't come, so we need to ask some others!

 

Health

4. Do 2 exercise videos on Netflix.  Actually did one video and then one Zumba class on Saturday.

5. Take a nature walk with the children.

6. Plan weekly meals 

Mon-Creamy pasta with leftover grilled chicken and sundried tomatoes/salad, Tue-Spaghetti/salad bake bread, Wed-Enchiladas (chicken in crockpot), Thur-Pasta bake (w/ leftover meat sauce from Mon), Fri-pizza, Sat-My Birthday-OUT!, Sun-grill? 

 

Home Management and Homeschool

7. Sort SJ's clothes and donate/resale all the clothes we don't use.

8. Finish hanging artwork on walls.  Did a lot of this yesterday, still working on a few frames and such, but hung some shelves and making the living room look much more homey!

 

Here's a shelf I put up in the schoolroom to keep all the supplies out of the reach of a certain toddler!

 

And we put up the black shelf for a few of our instruments and such in the front piano room.

9. Get in 4 mornings of homeschool and Classical Conversations.  Also went on a field trip to the museum, it was a full week!

10.  Make new files for bills.  Definitely need to work on this ASAP!

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Monday Motivation

10 Goals for Feb 6-12

Prayer and Community

1. Read the daily Mass readings 3x this week.

2. Pray a decade of the Rosary with the children.

3. Prepare for our house blessing this Saturday!  Make a menu, invite some fellow parishioners, and clean the house!!!

 

Health

4. Attend 2 Zumba classes.  I joined a weight-loss challenge that last 6 weeks and includes 12 classes.  So this should help me stick with my exercise and eating goals!

5. Take a nature walk with the children.

6. Plan weekly meals 

Mon-Grilled steak, baked potatoes and green beans. Tues-Creamy pasta with leftover grilled chicken and sundried tomatoes, broccoli, salad, Tue-Quesadillas with grilled chicken/steak or grilled chicken salad, Wed-Pizza, Thur-baked chicken, Fri-breakfast for dinner, Sat-house blessing-plan menu!, Sun-grill? 

 

Home Management and Homeschool

7. Sort and prepare clothes for donate/resale (have these in 2 large baskets but need to iron and find out resale store's policies)

 

All the clothes we don't need, feels so good to purge!

8. Finish hanging artwork on walls and start at least one sewing project on my list (bunting-see here for example, camera case, stockings, bedskirt, pillowcases, girl skirts)

Here's the living room progress.  Still planning to hang several pictures and a clock on the star wall, and figure out a very inexpensive rug option!

9. Get in 4 mornings of homeschool, Classical Conversations, and Valentine-Making (buy supplies) at homeschool Friday play day.

 

 Kids "supposed" to be doing schoolwork, they're actually coloring.  But I should be working with them, and instead I'm blogging while baby sleeps.  Oops!

10.  Make new files for bills.