Wake up before kids and exercise (Ideally 5:30)- 6:30 but I got 4 loads of laundry and all of the bins back in storage before 8 am which was impressive for me
Eat Breakfast (shake)
Drink 100 oz of water
Play with Nate one on one (normally I play with him once D is asleep)
Play with David one on one (before Chris and Nate woke up)
Outside Playtime
Set Timer on phone and Read Scriptures
Organize or reorganize something (picking up toys counts for today)
Make a to-do for the next dayCall or Email a Family Member
Not Bake something (We have a relief society activity tonight so I have to make something)
Take Vitamins/oils
Read part of a Book (A year of living biblically and Lean in)
Follow a schedule with the boys (the schedule changed slightly because Nate took a nap but we have been really good and they are watching a show for the first time while i bake and cook dinner)
Have Dinner done when Chris is home-WAHOO it is 3:30 and it is done for the night-we have home teachers coming over at 5:30 and then the activity Chris is helping watch kids at after
Have a Date Night (Chris did decide to take saturday off so we can have a family day even though he will be losing hours-not complaining :)
Plan/Prep/or have Family Home Evening we missed it Monday because we fed missionaries so we are having a little thought tonight.
Family Scripture Study and Prayer
Brush the boys teeth morning and night
Prepare Lesson for Sunday
Listen to a Conference Talk
Write in Journal (more like a jounal email entry but it was something)
Only check phone for non text/intentional things 3x a day-
Bed by 9:30 (10 at latest)
Intentionally Serve Someone: prepare treat for activity
I have actually been doing pretty well at being accountable to myself. I lost my planner....Well I am pretty sure nate put it somewhere so I hate writing stuff down on random papers but hopefully I will find it soon.
Thursday, August 14, 2014
Thursday, August 7, 2014
Thursday 8-7-2014
Wake up before kids and exercise (Ideally 5:30)
Eat Breakfast
Drink 100 oz of water
Play with Nate one on one
Play with David one on one
Outside Playtime
Set Timer on phone and Read Scriptures
Organize or reorganize something (picking up toys counts for today)
Make a to-do for the next day
Call or Email a Family Member
Not Bake something (pending my actions after writing this post)
Take Vitamins/oils
Read part of a Book ( I watched Divergent with a friend last night and then proceeded to re-read it all today)-anyone read the second and third one is it worth it?
Follow a schedule with the boys
Have Dinner done when Chris is home
Have a Date Night
Plan/Prep/or have Family Home Evening
Family Scripture Study and Prayer
Brush the boys teeth morning and night
Prepare Lesson for Sunday
Listen to a Conference Talk
Write in Journal (a few sentences but it is a start)
Only check phone for non text/intentional things 3x a day-I might have done this but It was I was so distracted reading a book which defeats my purpose of trying to be less distracted and more focused on just enjoying the moment.
Bed by 9:30 (10 at latest)
Intentionally Serve Someone (David and I got to really connect today and it was great)
Rough day but starting to get better. Nate only took 3 hours to fall asleep tonight so I had a little more down time to actually get on the computer and update this blog but hopefully still be in bed in the next 20 minutes. Or I might make chocolate toffee cookies....Decisions, decisions. I also added one more thing to the bottom of my list-Intentionally serve someone. That can be one of my boys or Chris or obviously a friend outside/neighbor/stranger outside the home but I just have to be intentional.
Eat Breakfast
Drink 100 oz of water
Play with Nate one on one
Play with David one on one
Outside Playtime
Set Timer on phone and Read Scriptures
Organize or reorganize something (picking up toys counts for today)
Make a to-do for the next day
Call or Email a Family Member
Not Bake something (pending my actions after writing this post)
Take Vitamins/oils
Read part of a Book ( I watched Divergent with a friend last night and then proceeded to re-read it all today)-anyone read the second and third one is it worth it?
Follow a schedule with the boys
Have Dinner done when Chris is home
Have a Date Night
Plan/Prep/or have Family Home Evening
Family Scripture Study and Prayer
Brush the boys teeth morning and night
Prepare Lesson for Sunday
Listen to a Conference Talk
Write in Journal (a few sentences but it is a start)
Only check phone for non text/intentional things 3x a day-I might have done this but It was I was so distracted reading a book which defeats my purpose of trying to be less distracted and more focused on just enjoying the moment.
Bed by 9:30 (10 at latest)
Intentionally Serve Someone (David and I got to really connect today and it was great)
Rough day but starting to get better. Nate only took 3 hours to fall asleep tonight so I had a little more down time to actually get on the computer and update this blog but hopefully still be in bed in the next 20 minutes. Or I might make chocolate toffee cookies....Decisions, decisions. I also added one more thing to the bottom of my list-Intentionally serve someone. That can be one of my boys or Chris or obviously a friend outside/neighbor/stranger outside the home but I just have to be intentional.
Monday (8-4-2014)
Wake up before kids and exercise (Ideally 5:30)
Eat Breakfast
Drink 100 oz of water
Play with Nate one on one
Play with David one on one
Outside Playtime
Set Timer on phone and Read Scriptures
Organize or reorganize something
Make a to-do for the next day
Call or Email a Family Member
Not Bake something
Take Vitamins/oils
Read part of a Book
Follow a schedule with the boys
Have Dinner done when Chris is home
Have a Date Night
Plan/Prep/or have Family Home Evening
Family Scripture Study and Prayer
Brush the boys teeth morning and night
Prepare Lesson for Sunday
Listen to a Conference Talk
Write in Journal
Only check phone for non text/intentional things 3x a day
Bed by 9:30 (10 at latest)
Monday was pretty good. I just forgot to post.That night was horrible and led to my next 2 days being zombie horrible.
Eat Breakfast
Drink 100 oz of water
Play with Nate one on one
Play with David one on one
Outside Playtime
Set Timer on phone and Read Scriptures
Organize or reorganize something
Make a to-do for the next day
Call or Email a Family Member
Not Bake something
Take Vitamins/oils
Read part of a Book
Follow a schedule with the boys
Have Dinner done when Chris is home
Have a Date Night
Plan/Prep/or have Family Home Evening
Family Scripture Study and Prayer
Brush the boys teeth morning and night
Prepare Lesson for Sunday
Listen to a Conference Talk
Write in Journal
Only check phone for non text/intentional things 3x a day
Bed by 9:30 (10 at latest)
Monday was pretty good. I just forgot to post.That night was horrible and led to my next 2 days being zombie horrible.
Monday, August 4, 2014
Sunday (8-3-2014)
Wake up before kids and exercise (Ideally 5:30)
Eat Breakfast
Drink 100 oz of water
Play with Nate one on one
Play with David one on one
Outside Playtime (family walk)
Set Timer on phone and Read Scriptures
Organize or reorganize something
Make a to-do for the next day
Call or Email a Family Member
Not Bake something
Take Vitamins/oils
Read part of a Book
Follow a schedule with the boys
Have Dinner done when Chris is home
Have a Date Night
Plan/Prep/or have Family Home Evening
Family Scripture Study and Prayer
Brush the boys teeth morning and night
Prepare Lesson for Sunday
Listen to a Conference Talk
Write in Journal
Only check phone for non text/intentional things 3x a day
Bed by 9:30 (10 at latest)
If it is in bold I did it. Sunday's are always weird but it was a good family day. We went for a walk. We talked with both of our parents (and corey Chris' brother and my siblings still at home).
Eat Breakfast
Drink 100 oz of water
Play with Nate one on one
Play with David one on one
Outside Playtime (family walk)
Set Timer on phone and Read Scriptures
Organize or reorganize something
Make a to-do for the next day
Call or Email a Family Member
Not Bake something
Take Vitamins/oils
Read part of a Book
Follow a schedule with the boys
Have Dinner done when Chris is home
Have a Date Night
Plan/Prep/or have Family Home Evening
Family Scripture Study and Prayer
Brush the boys teeth morning and night
Prepare Lesson for Sunday
Listen to a Conference Talk
Write in Journal
Only check phone for non text/intentional things 3x a day
Bed by 9:30 (10 at latest)
If it is in bold I did it. Sunday's are always weird but it was a good family day. We went for a walk. We talked with both of our parents (and corey Chris' brother and my siblings still at home).
Saturday, August 2, 2014
The Perfect Day
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Matthew 6:21
I have always liked having a to-do list, I just got a new planner (I was using a free one they gave Chris for school) but it finished up in June so it has been awhile since I have used one. I have also noticed I have not been as good about "getting stuff done" the last little while and I attribute it to not having it written down or being accountable for what I am doing. A friend from our ward started a "perfect month of accountability" blog where she is has made a list of all the things she wants to get done every day and while she doesn't get them all done because life happens she still reports to herself if nothing else what she did and didn't do. So with that brief introduction I'll introduce my new blog about learning to be accountable to myself if nothing else. I have created an excel spread sheet of what I am going to do and made it easy to access from my phone (because lets be real) I spend way to much time on that thing anyways so by having this list in place I will hopefully be a little more motivated to at least "check off" what I have or have not done.
Oh and about the scripture- I once had an old leadership adviser talk about writing down tasks and schedules and how she always included stuff she was doing with/for her family. At least for me, I often exclude those things because it just made the page/list fill up faster but her point was "where your treasure is there will your heart be also." If I am only looking and thinking about a list of things that NEED to get done but that list doesn't include all the stuff I am doing for my family, my heart can't be in the right place. Love is spelled time, and I better be giving myself credit on my lists for all the stuff I am doing for my own family even if that love is shown by changing diapers for a total of almost an hour in a 24 hour period. Plus I have found when I include that stuff on my list I get a lot less frustrated at myself throughout the day because I know at some point I will be asked to stop and read books or play trains or whatever it is.
So here it is-my perfect day of the stuff I haven't mastered well enough on my own (I haven't watched a tv show in almost 3 months woot, woot).
***disclaimer-I also, for the first time in awhile, am not being physically exhausted by anybody but myself-no nursing, no newborn, no pregnancy so this is my ideal because I don't have as many outside pressures-I am also no longer a student or nannying twice a week so my schedule is truly at my command give or take my little munchkins. :)***
Wake up before kids and exercise (Ideally 5:30)
Eat Breakfast
Drink 100 oz of water
Play with Nate one on one
Play with David one on one
Outside Playtime
Set Timer on phone and Read Scriptures
Organize or reorganize something
Make a to-do for the next day
Call or Email a Family Member
Not Bake something
Take Vitamins/oils
Read part of a Book
Follow a schedule with the boys
Have Dinner done when Chris is home
Have a Date Night
Plan/Prep/or have Family Home Evening
Family Scripture Study and Prayer
Brush the boys teeth morning and night
Prepare Lesson for Sunday
Listen to a Conference Talk
Write in Journal
Only check phone for non text/intentional things 3x a day
Bed by 9:30 (10 at latest)
Some of these I won't be doing daily but this is my ideal so I am at least thinking about them and not having to crunch last minute.
Now to undertake my big project of reorganizing the kids clothes bins....
I have always liked having a to-do list, I just got a new planner (I was using a free one they gave Chris for school) but it finished up in June so it has been awhile since I have used one. I have also noticed I have not been as good about "getting stuff done" the last little while and I attribute it to not having it written down or being accountable for what I am doing. A friend from our ward started a "perfect month of accountability" blog where she is has made a list of all the things she wants to get done every day and while she doesn't get them all done because life happens she still reports to herself if nothing else what she did and didn't do. So with that brief introduction I'll introduce my new blog about learning to be accountable to myself if nothing else. I have created an excel spread sheet of what I am going to do and made it easy to access from my phone (because lets be real) I spend way to much time on that thing anyways so by having this list in place I will hopefully be a little more motivated to at least "check off" what I have or have not done.
Oh and about the scripture- I once had an old leadership adviser talk about writing down tasks and schedules and how she always included stuff she was doing with/for her family. At least for me, I often exclude those things because it just made the page/list fill up faster but her point was "where your treasure is there will your heart be also." If I am only looking and thinking about a list of things that NEED to get done but that list doesn't include all the stuff I am doing for my family, my heart can't be in the right place. Love is spelled time, and I better be giving myself credit on my lists for all the stuff I am doing for my own family even if that love is shown by changing diapers for a total of almost an hour in a 24 hour period. Plus I have found when I include that stuff on my list I get a lot less frustrated at myself throughout the day because I know at some point I will be asked to stop and read books or play trains or whatever it is.
So here it is-my perfect day of the stuff I haven't mastered well enough on my own (I haven't watched a tv show in almost 3 months woot, woot).
***disclaimer-I also, for the first time in awhile, am not being physically exhausted by anybody but myself-no nursing, no newborn, no pregnancy so this is my ideal because I don't have as many outside pressures-I am also no longer a student or nannying twice a week so my schedule is truly at my command give or take my little munchkins. :)***
Wake up before kids and exercise (Ideally 5:30)
Eat Breakfast
Drink 100 oz of water
Play with Nate one on one
Play with David one on one
Outside Playtime
Set Timer on phone and Read Scriptures
Organize or reorganize something
Make a to-do for the next day
Call or Email a Family Member
Not Bake something
Take Vitamins/oils
Read part of a Book
Follow a schedule with the boys
Have Dinner done when Chris is home
Have a Date Night
Plan/Prep/or have Family Home Evening
Family Scripture Study and Prayer
Brush the boys teeth morning and night
Prepare Lesson for Sunday
Listen to a Conference Talk
Write in Journal
Only check phone for non text/intentional things 3x a day
Bed by 9:30 (10 at latest)
Some of these I won't be doing daily but this is my ideal so I am at least thinking about them and not having to crunch last minute.
Now to undertake my big project of reorganizing the kids clothes bins....
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