Mission of the Month: March 2012 {and Feb Accomplishments}

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February Mission Update: My mission for February was quite extensive. But, it stemmed from the goals that my husband and I prayed about and committed to for 2012. Here is how I did:

Personal:

1. Commit to daily quiet time (Bible reading & prayer) each morning. I’ve been doing this one…still need to work on getting up earlier though!

2. Finish reading Eat That Frog! I haven’t finished this one, but it is full of LOTS of great nuggets for getting more done in less time and avoiding procrastination!

3. Finish reading Organized Simplicity.  DONE!!! This book not only inspired me to do a whole-house purge, but to totally change around the rooms (furniture) in our house so that they better suit our needs!

4. Complete 10 scrapbook pages. I am over 5 years behind! I’ve got a lot of catching up to do!

Marriage:

5. Find and begin a couples devotional. Rather than selecting a couples devo, we have put a night of the calendar each week to go over what our pastor taught on the previous Sunday.

6. Flirt with my hubby everyday. This was harder than I thought it was going to be because I kept forgetting. But, I am working on a little something to help me remember!! {wink, wink}

Parenting:

7. Decide on and begin a weekly family devotional. We decided on the downloadable family devotions that go along with The Hands-On Bible and we are LOVING them!

8. Gather scriptures so that I can discipline consistently with The Word. I didn’t have to come up with the scriptures for this one because we discovered The Child-Training Bible!!! What an incredible tool for disciplining with The Word! (I have a review coming up this month!)

9. Find a feasible way to have one-on-one time with each child daily. This one is a work in progress. I feel like I struggle with this one because I want to have structured, planned one-on-one time when the reality of the situation is that the kids just want my undivided attention…whether it is planned or not…even if we are just talking and folding laundry together! 

Homeschooling:

10. Read The Toothpaste Millionaire aloud to the kids. The kids LOVED this book. In fact, they want to try making toothpaste!

11. Read/watch Hans Brinker and take the kids ice skating. We ended up watching the movie, Hans Brinker…. and the kids had a blast ice skating!

12. Find and begin a new daily devotional with the kids. I decided on Long Story Short to use with the kids daily…well Monday through Friday, before we start our schoolwork. We still incorporate our Grapevine Studies, but they are part of our “schoolwork.” We LOVED Grapevine Studies, but I am not sure if Long Story Short is going to work for us. We plan to continue plugging away at it to see if it will be a good fit or not.

Homemaking:

13. Finish completely re-organizing the furniture to suit our needs. I can’t begin to tell you how great it feels to now have my home organized! Once we started thinking outside the box, we were able to come up with some pretty ingenious ways to create more space!

14. Finish purging each room in the house. Again, thanks to Organized Simplicity, I was inspired to completely purge our home (and my hubby was TOTALLY on board)! We cleared out TONS of stuff and it felt great to be able to bless someone else with it! But, due to my surgery, I have not quite finished…but we are almost there!

15. Start up SHE Method again. Why oh why do I stop using this system? It works so well for me and I am glad to be back with it! It keeps me from having to think about every little thing that needs to be done to maintain my home!

Ministry/Friendships/Extended Family:

16. Write 2 letters.

17. Start sending birthday cards to extended family & friends again.

Financial:

18. Gather documents for tax preparation. Still working on this one…

Blogging/Online Activity:

19. Begin writing and scheduling blog posts @ least 1 week in advance. I truly enjoy blogging, but I don’t love the pressure of “needing” to post something! Writing and planning my posts ahead of time relieves me of that pressure so that I can truly enjoy blogging and blog about what I enjoy! I even created a printable planning form to help with blog planning and scheduling. But, life has thrown me a few curveballs and I have not yet been able to get ahead and begin scheduling like I want to.

20. Stick with my new schedule for online activity. The computer can really suck away valuable time if you are not careful…and that is what was happening to me! I want my kids to remember me as a fun and present mom…not as being glued to a computer! So, I have restricted my online time and so far it has been working well!

So, while I did accomplish quite a bit, I still left a few things undone. So…

My Mission for March 2012: 

Personal:

1. Get up before the kids during the week to have my devotion and prayer time. (This means well before 7am.)

2. Finish reading Eat That Frog! 

3. Read Sun Stand Still: What Happen When You Dare to Ask God for the Impossible.

4. Complete 10 scrapbook pages.

Marriage:

5. Remember to flirt with my hubby everyday.

Parenting:

6. Diligently implement The Child-Training Bible into our method of discipline.  

Homeschooling:

7. Complete two read-alouds to the kids.

8. Finish making the alphabet bean-bags that I started about a year ago!

9. Decide on our Science and Art Fair submissions for our homeschool group.

Homemaking:

10. Finish purging the remaining rooms in the house.

Ministry/Friendships/Extended Family:

11. Write 2 letters.

12. Decide on a volunteer activity at church.

Financial:

13. Finish gathering documents for tax preparation.

Blogging/Online Activity:

14. Begin writing and scheduling blog posts @ least 1 week in advance.

15. Continue to stick with my new schedule for online activity.

16. Transfer all of my printable files over from 4shared to my MamaJenn.com site. 

Whew…that’s a lot!

What is your March mission of the month?

If you participated last month, how did you do?

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