Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. ~Attributed to Carl Bard
A great month. I am doing well on most of my goals. I started working on exercise. Food is a struggle because of our financial situation. Other things are going pretty good considering the 3+ years of unemployment and the things going on with my hubbies health.
My hubby is recuperating from his first procedure. They did angioplasty on one area that was 95% blocked and put a stent in. He has another procedure on June 24th to fix a 70% blockage.
I also have a few procedures to go to fix my tooth. My root canal is finished. Now they are going to put a post in. Then they are going to get my tooth ready and put a crown on it. 3 more procedures and it is done. I don't know if it will be done by the end of June or not.
The main goal is in bold and under that are the smaller steps to reaching those goals.
- Main Goal
- The updates will be here
- or here.. in purple.
in front, the goals that I still have to work on have a sad face 
in front. Some are not really sad but that is the best contrast I could make between completed and not completed. The color thing was getting to complicated and I love smileys so I am sticking with them.
Personal Goals:
Spiritual - Read Proverbs through each month. A chapter a day + a couple on short months. Recommended by the book my hubby and I are reading together... The Richest Man Who Ever Lived: King Solomon's Secrets to Success, Wealth, and Happiness.
- Doing ok, but not great. Need to make this the first thing I do... no excuses.
- Read Godly/Spiritual books.
- I have been reading Praying God's Word. I have not read any more of Desiring God for a while. But I am not giving up on it.
- Work on my prayer life. Pray is my word for 2013.
- Start reading a book on prayer. My hubby bought me a new book off my Amazon list.
- I started reading Praying God's Word by Beth Moore. I have done well reading this and am enjoying it very much.
- I started a private blog for just God and I to see. I made it so it can't be searched by the search engines and you have to be invited to read. I needed another way to focus. I focus well while writing so I decided to try and blog my prayers to God. I am keeping up with this and enjoying writing on my prayer blog more and more often.
- Be Grateful. I will be joining the Joy Dare @ Ann Voscamp's blog. Click the link to check it out. You can print her prompts for each month or do your own thing. Just be grateful... 3 a day for 365 days gives you more than 1000 things to look back at on Dec. 31, 2013. Let's record 1000 things to be grateful to the Lord for.
- I am still doing this but I am a little behind. It is not hard to catch up and I will.
- Memorize 2 verses or portions of scripture a month with my new group on Facebook. We post one verse/portion on the 1st and one on the 15th. With this I will memorize 24+ verses a year... more than in 2012 since I didn't memorize any. I started using Scripture Typer to help me memorize and review the verses.
- I did ok with my verses in May. But, if I don't do better soon I will be behind and not able to catch up. I have not been doing it daily and I need to at least do it more often.
- Exercise more, more often and consistently. I would like to be much more fit by the end of 2013. As far as healthy eating goes I will be doing the best I can. (With my husband being unemployed for 33 months now things are tough and we can't always afford fruits and vegetables. If I exercise I will feel better... that is better than nothing.)
- Read some books/magazines to expand my own education. (The spiritual book are very educational but I have other books I would like to read as well... non-fiction and historical fiction.)
- I read a book about motherhood in May. I will post my reading update soon so watch for it.
Personal/Leisure
- Read some fiction books for pleasure.
- I finished 3 fiction books in May. I will post my reading update soon so watch for it.
- Continue blogging and remember it is supposed to be for fun and for the records for my family. Use the blogging ideas pdf I bought in 2012.
- I am doing ok. Keeping up. I hope to do better. I have some books about blogging I want to read, I have some blogs I am reading, I have some friends that are helping me.
- Work on some crafts just for me. Things I have wanted to do, work on, make. Some from Pinterest, some will be things I have been working on already or wanting to do for a while.
- I doodle a picture for some friends from Texas.
- Spend at least one day a month scrapbooking, digital or paper.
- I scrapbooked in May. I am part of a Creative Team for Digi Cyber Scraps so I must do at least 2 digital scrapbook pages a month. See a post about me here - New CT Member
- Play at least one board game a month with someone in the family.
- Yup! Played Parcheesi with my son Christopher this past week.
Homeschool Goals:
- Keep up with planning and ordering any materials Christopher needs for school.
- Did well on this. We are finished school now. I will have many things to work on over the summer, but not in May. Ds Christopher notified me that he thinks he would like to go back to me reading aloud for History, and Historical Fiction as well as do Bible together next year. I told him we would see. I don't know what next year will bring. We will definitely do Bible together and we must do some Science together as well. I will probably do it though, because I love being more involved and we only have 2 precious years left. If he wants me to read aloud just because he thinks I will let him play on his computer while I read he has got another thing coming.
- Be consistent with reviewing Christopher's daily assigned work and making sure he completes everything assigned to him, log it into my school log, and then put the stuff away in the folders/notebooks where it belongs.
- Did great with this. Have some things to work on over the summer but it is great
- Check periodically on Christopher's hours for school. I don't want to have to do his transcript all in his Sr. year.
- I need to do this asap as I need updated numbers on how Christopher is doing with his hours this year and how many more hours he needs for each of the subjects.
- I got it all done except the last week or so. I do need to finish this up before the new year starts. Must start fresh with no work from last year left over. I have plenty of time in June and most of July to get last year wrapped up and next year planned.
16 Done0 Not DonePrevious Month's Updates in case you missed them and want to read...
January Jots ~ Yearly Goal Update
February Fun ~ Yearly Goal Update
Merry March - Yearly Goals Update
Accomplished April - Yearly Goals Update
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