Resolutions Upate

It's been three weeks since the resolutions were made and in an attempt not to go completely off track in my resolutions, I'm going to be updating my progress on them.


1. Daily Bible Study with Paul.

We are doing pretty well on this. We're following along with a group on Facebook and this is keeping up fairly honest and motivated. Somehow, we've never done the readings on Fridays or Saturdays, and I'm really not sure why, but we are behind on those days. We also have gotten behind on a few other days, but only by one week. We're endeavoring this week to catch up completely.

2. Daily prayer for my family, friends and church - create a specific prayer list

Why is it so hard to remember to pray? We do pray everyday, but it is so easy to just dash of a "thanks for the food" prayer and feel like you've done your job. We started a specific prayer list, and after spending the first couple of weeks at the bottom of the filing pile, it is finally in an easily visible place on the refrigerator. We are getting better about specific prayer, but definitely need some work to make this a daily habit.

3. Gratitude Posts - Daily!

I was doing really well with this for the first two weeks. Then, I missed a day and my perfectionist nature wouldn't let me do the next day til I caught up and I just keep missing days. Well, I'm back on track again. I decided not to try to fill in the missing days, but rather pick up from here. 

4. Be a good Keeper at Home - find a cleaning schedule and create a sanctuary for our family

Surprisingly, I am having the most success with this goal. It's remarkably easy to keep a clean house clean! And, those days when I don't get a chance to straighten up don't have too big of an impact on the next day's work. One reason for this success is that I have a deadline (surprise! I'm not an internally motivated person!). In March, I start babysitting for Brooke again, and I want to have my house "Spring Cleaning" clean before then. As I said before, it's easy to keep a clean house clean. So, I'm taking one area per week, with two weeks left at the end, and I'm doing a deep, purge-style, clean. The only rules are that I 1) have to keep up daily chores like laundry and dishes, 2) do as much work each day as I can/Timothy will let me (if I miss a day, no feeling guilty), and 3) stop an area when the week is over. Whatever didn't get finished can be revisited in the last two weeks. Maybe this is my "nesting", huh?

Week 1: Week of Jan 8: The Nursery

Week 2: Week of Jan 15: The Hallway (closets), Laundry Room and Bathrooms

Week 3: Week of Jan 22: The Master Bedroom

Week 4: Week of Jan 29: The Kitchen

Week 5: Week of Feb 5: The Studio

Week 6: Week of Feb 12: The Living Room

Weeks 7 & 8: Weeks of Feb 19 & 26: Finishing weeks/prep for babysitting

5. Tell Paul each day how much I love him and how thankful I am for him

Check. :-) (But I probably could tell him a bit more each day...)

6. Daily walks - weather permitting

Ugh. I don't wanna talk about it. Suffice it to say, most days, the weather is very permitting....

I'm trying to do better every day.