Monday Motivation

Quick note: I ran out of photo space on my blog so I need to figure that out (I think I have to pay a $5/year fee).  Hopefully I'll have some more reflective posts this week since I may not be able to post photos for a few days! 

 

Second note: Our dear friends the G family welcomed their fifth baby on Friday and first DAUGHTER!  Congratulations to Veronica, Enrique, and their boys....and WELCOME, PRECIOUS MIRIAM EVA!  Can't wait to meet her!

 

And guess what?  It let me load this photo, so maybe I do still have some space for uploading?

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Monday Motivation Review

10 Goals for Feb 20-26

 

 Prayer and Community

1. Prepare for the Lenten season and decide on personal commitments.  Also considering a family commitment/sacrifice to help the children to be successful.  The ideas they came up with at dinner tonight were rather lofty, so I think we might try a similar plan to last year's:

   Mon-No screen time
   Tues-No treats- this includes fruit snacks, candy, cookies, etc.
   Weds-Go to Daily Mass as a family or read the daily mass readings
   Thurs-Learn about a new Saint
   Fri-Pray the Stations of the Cross, or at least a few
   Sat-Pray a Rosary
   Sun-Nothing- Sunday is always a day of celebration!

Decided on commitments but didn't follow through on all of them.  Will work on that this week.

2. Read the daily mass readings 3x this week. 

3. Plan a mom's night for our homeschool group.

Health 

4. Attend 2 Zumba classes.  My pants are starting to feel too big and I'm fitting into one size smaller bottoms!  Praise God that maybe Zumba is helping me to not look pregnant anymore!

5. Go to bed by 11pm and set my alarm for 6:45am!!!  I did pretty well at getting to bed but not so good at waking up before 7.

6. Plan weekly meals and serve them!  Also do some "pinning" of meatless dishes for Lent.

Mon-Pasta bake, Tues-Leftovers (grilled chicken), Ash Weds-potato soup, Thurs-Baked chicken, Fri-(Stations and potluck at church?) Caprese pasta or Macaroni & cheese, Sat-chicken sandwiches, Sun-grill

Home Management and Homeschool

7.  Sort and prepare kid clothes for resale/donate  one of these days I'll get these off the dryer and to the resale store!

8.  Start one more sewing project on my list (camera case, stockings, pillow covers, skirts, quilts for kids' beds).  I started embroidering their initial on their stockings tonight while watching a Ken Burns WWII documentary with Steven :)

9.  Start getting kids ready for bed at 8:30, lights out at 9pm!

10. Read books with the boys once a day, finish Robert E Lee book with MC, and find a new family chapter book to start.

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Monday Motivation

10 Goals for Feb 27-Mar 4

 

 Prayer and Community

1. Focus on our Lenten daily offerings and personal prayer time this week:

   Mon-No screen time
   Tues-No treats
   Weds-Daily Mass as a family or read and discuss daily mass readings
   Thurs-Learn about a new Saint/discuss saint presentation for girls' Pickwick next week
   Fri-Pray the Stations of the Cross, or at least a few (This Fri will probably be First Friday Mass and Potluck at church)
   Sat-Pray a Rosary
   Sun-Nothing-a day of celebration!

2. Start brainstorming about a St. Patrick's Day celebration.

3. Plan a mom's night for our homeschool group.

Health 

4. Attend 2 Zumba classes.

5. Go to bed by 11pm and set my alarm for 6:45am!!!  

6. Plan weekly meals and serve them! 

Mon-Steven will grill steak and chicken, Tues-Leftovers, Weds-spaghetti, Thurs-pasta bake, Fri-Church fish fry/bring mac n cheese?, Sat-chicken sandwiches, Sun-grill

Home Management and Homeschool (let's try this again!)

7.  Sort and prepare kid clothes for resale/donate

8.  Start one more sewing project on my list (camera case, stockings, pillow covers, skirts, quilts for kids' beds) and work with Ellie on finishing sewing her doll things for next week.

9.  Start getting kids ready for bed at 8:30, lights out at 9pm!

10. Read books with the boys once a day, finish Robert E Lee book with MC, and start the Civil War and Abraham Lincoln books