Weekly Goals/Plans

How's this for accountability...

My plans for the week, and my goals for the week.

Plans
Monday-
Tuesday- Scentsy visit, PLL
Wednesday- Lenten service at LIUMC (Food Pantry discussion)
Thursday- Dallas Elementary Expo
Friday- 
Saturday- Visit with friends, out to see Hidden Drive
Sunday- Teach Sunday School and LIYF

I'm about 90% positive I missed some things.

Goals
-Wake up by 6:45, following MSM's Early to Rise Challenge
-Finish "Leading on Empty"
-Write Parent newsletter for LIYF
-Walk on treadmill 10 minutes per day
-Follow daily cleaning schedule
-Watch Weigh Down video one, start workbook
-Figure out a Bible reading schedule that works (since following the CCV plan isn't)

Check back in to see how it goes

Early to Rise Challenge

I'm taking part in MoneySavingMom's Early to Rise Challenge. Basically, wake up earlier, start your day off better, achieve more.

Sounds perfect.

I've actually woken up by 7 each day so far.
Ideally, I'd wake up around 6:15.
I've been waking up at 7:30, so at least I'm making progress.

The challenge is also following along with a book, which I will share that information at a later date.

I'm officially a Scentsy Independent Sales Consultant, which rocks, cause I looooove the stuff.
I had my launch party over the weekend, and it was a huge success :)

I hope to share more over the next week or so...

-Zeteo
-Sunday School
-LIYF
-Scentsy
-Waking up early
-Goals update...

Check back tomorrow :)

Goals and life

I still would love to follow my goal plan for this year. But it isn't working. I have too many things requiring attention in my life, that I don't have time to focus on my priorities.

It's driving me nuts.

Things are slowly falling in to place, so that's at least helpful. They are goals for the year, not all things need to happen immediately ( even though it'd be nice )

I'm also enjoying work a little more now. Always a plus.

I'll have to write about zeteo soon.

2013 Goals

This is a pretty comprehensive list of my priorities and goals for 2013. I have the lists I based mine off of referenced at the bottom. I may break some of these down over the next couple weeks to explain more in detail how I plan on achieving them.

My main word for the year will be faith. All of my other goals and priorities will be based off of faith. My marriage and health will be my 2nd and 3rd priorities.

Feel free to share your goals and priorities for 2013 in the comments below :)

2013 Goals -Google Docs Link

http://thefrugalhomemaker.com/2013/01/02/2013-goals/
http://moneysavingmom.com/2010/11/time-management-101-determine-what-your-priorities-are.html

2013

Goals.

Personal.

Financial.

Spiritual.

Marriage/Family.

Homemaking.

I'm not making resolutions, I'm making plans.

Come back for more over the weekend. I've been working on them, and I keep working on them, and I will keep working on them.

Cupp Of Coffee is back. (Guess what one of my goals is?!)

<3

Lucky Tails

One early Sunday morning in June, and by early I mean about 1:30 AM, the wonderful husband of mine calls and says he has a German Shepherd puppy in the back of my jeep.

Wide awake now...

We posted found ads, told everyone we knew, called the SPCA. By Wednesday, he was ours. We named him Lucky. He peed a LOT. I pretty much carried a mop around with me those first few weeks. He had so much energy and loved to lick. I am not going to say I was enjoying this.

(Cannot believe he was this small not that long ago)

Yeah, we had a Golden Retriever (our golden child) but this was a puppy. A puppy with no bladder (figuratively speaking). Our wonderful friends that raise German Shepherds gave us some toys, food, and a crate. Boy, were we thankful for that. 

Next stop, the vet.
The Vet guessed he was anywhere from 3-4 months, had a heart murmur and a hernia. Along with being at least 20 lbs under weight. He had probably been on his own outside for over 2 months. Heart murmurs and hernias are apparently common in GSD (German shepherd dogs). The vet said it was very possible the hernia would heal and he would grow out of the heart murmur (Let's pray).

We scheduled neutering and hernia repair for early August. His bladder was improving drastically. Still loved licking. The day arrived, and Bill dropped him off at the vet. Within two hours, the vet called.

"Lucky still has his heart murmur, if we go through with this, he has a 20% chance of surviving the surgery"
Bill went and picked him up. He may be a pain, but he's like a child to us.

The vet said to wait 2 more months to see if he grows out of it, because as of October he should definitely be 6 months old. If at that time he still has the heart murmur, we were referred to a dog cardiologist (I kid you not, they do exist!...for $600 an appointment).

We can barely afford all the dog food we are running through, let alone a $600 dog cardio appt.

So last Monday, October 8, was the big day. Would the heart murmur be gone? Can we go ahead with the neuter and hernia repair?

YES! He is gaining weight as needed, growing as needed, has the right amount of energy, he's doing great! He has his surgery scheduled for the first week of December.

Here he is just this past week, as big, if not bigger than our full size Golden.

Dogs may be expensive, may be a pain and a big responsibility, but our children have four paws. 
(As i'm yelling at them to share their toys with each other)

I'm BACK!

So apparently I decided to take the summer off.

I actually didn't, I just had other things to do. 

I love blogging, I really do, but I also love sitting on the porch and spending time with family and friends. Haven't seen me lately? COME VISIT! :)

I promised pictures in this post (according to my post 3 months ago). Check out my Pinterest-TONS of pictures ;)

Back to why I originally started this blog. The church has too many taboo topics, that the Bible actually talks about. Submission, Sex, Love, Marriage, the way you live your life, obedience, the list goes on.

Yeah, I'm going there. Check out To Love, Honor, and Vacuum. Seriously. 29 days to great sex challenge. This is for you, Christian married women! Ugh, are brains are so full of how BAD sex is before marriage that  half (probably more) of us don't even enjoy it when we are married.

Better yet, read her article on submission isn't abuse. The comments as well. Wow. What Submission Isn't

My list goes on and on about what I want to talk about. and my BIGGEST concern is that I might not be right. That what I say might not be in line with God's vision for us. 

But I am trusting that God is leading me to these thought-provoking articles for a reason. That he gives me such strong ideas because he wants me to share them with you.

I want to go there, because not many people do, and we are just hiding behind our "Christian" label, when we should be shouting it to the world. I feel there are too many people out there showing off their "Christian" label and making us all look BAD. Why don't we start showing off how AWESOME and WONDERFUL it is. How God loves us and wants us to love, obey, and follow Him.

We can do it. We should do it. We are called to do it.

Let's start talking.