Goal Planning Monday ~ Week 79

 Time to write some goals and strive to accomplish them this coming week??

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Goal Planning Monday has a new home - the banner above will take you to the new home for Goal Planning Monday @ Real Life Unscripted even though it says it is @ mamamanuscripts. I changed the link to send you to the new place.

It was a pretty good week. Only one thing not done. The rest of my goals I did or at least made progress on.

My Goals from last week and how I did:

Spiritual Goals 

1. Devotions daily -  How People Change and How People Change Study Guide: How Christ Changes Us by His Grace. Partly Done
2. Listen to Godly Music Daily. Partly Done
3. Pray daily. Partly Done
4. Read some of My Utmost for His Highest before bed at night. Done

Homeschool Goals

1. Complete the first week of school. Done
2. Log Christopher's work into the log. Done

Blog Goals   

1. Comment on the ladies blogs that link up to Goal Planning Monday. Done - I commented at Our Hostesses Blog @ Real Life: Unscripted and Kym @ Homeschool Coffee Break
   
2. Post reminders to my friends/blog readers about Think Back Thursday on Wed., on Facebook groups especially. Remind them of this week's theme. Also post next week's theme. Done
3. Post Think Back Thursday. Done
4. Comment on each person's post that links up for Think Back Thursday. Done

Personal/Other Goals

1. Shut off computer between 9 and 9:30. I need to get to bed earlier.  Partly Done - I shut off my computer Mon.-Thursday by 9:30 after that I was later because of the Olympics. Friday night I chatted with a friend on Facebook during the Opening Ceremonies which made it really fun and almost like we were together while watching it. Saturday I watched some and was on my computer some, I don't know what time I turned it off. Sunday I was piddling around on my computer during the commercials and chatted with the same friend for just a minute or 2, but I didn't turn off the computer until midnight when the Olympics were over for the night. I will be suspending this goal until the Olympics are over.
2. Read. Done
3. Try to exercise at least 1 or 2 times. My lower back has been hurting me as well as my knees. I need to exercise. I need to loose weight but that is hard with our financial situation. Exercise, however is something I can and should still do. Not Done - Next week this will say done because I am going to exercise today. Last week I was just lazy.
4. Clean up some of the stuff on the floor in my bedroom. My room isn't really dirty, just messy from all the school planning. Partly Done - some things cleaned up and organized, some more to go.
5. Watch the opening ceremonies of the Olympics. Then watch as much of the Olympics as we can fit in and see, since we don't have cable.  Done

For this week that is 9 Done, 5 Partly Done, and 1 Not Done. 


My goals for this coming week:

Spiritual Goals 

1. Devotions daily -  How People Change and How People Change Study Guide: How Christ Changes Us by His Grace.
2. Listen to Godly Music Daily.
3. Pray daily.
4. Read some of My Utmost for His Highest before bed at night. 

Homeschool Goals

1. Complete the first week of school.
2. Log Christopher's work into the log.

Blog Goals   

1. Comment on the ladies blogs that link up to Goal Planning Monday.
2. Post reminders to my friends/blog readers about Think Back Thursday on Wed., on Facebook groups especially. Remind them of this week's theme. Also post next week's theme.
3. Post Think Back Thursday.
4. Comment on each person's post that links up for Think Back Thursday. 

Personal/Other Goals

1. Read.
2. Try to exercise at least 1 or 2 times. My lower back has been hurting me as well as my knees. I need to exercise. I need to loose weight but that is hard with our financial situation. Exercise, however is something I can and should still do. 
3. Clean up some of the stuff on the floor in my bedroom. My room isn't really dirty, just messy from all the school planning.

That's my goals for this week!! Do you have any goals? You should. You will get a lot more done if you think about what you want to accomplish with your week. Post your goals and link up. The button at the top will take you to the meme and you can join up with us.

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Think Back Thursday ~ Playing WITH your kids

Sorry I am late getting this up. I will have to strive to do better. I watched a couple movies with the family last night instead of prepping this post.

Today's theme is...

Playing WITH your kids

ideas:

board games

computer/video game

playing house

anything else you "play" with your kids

Now these are not just pictures of your kids playing...

but YOU playing WITH them.

Take time to play with your kids this summer

make a memory

document it

and post photos of this years activity or previous times you have played with your kids

These photos are from Mother's Day this year, 2012. I guess you could say the kids were playing with me and not me playing with them since on special days the one who is being honored, be it birthday or other holiday, gets to choose what to do and the whole family does it together. My hubby even joined in, though this is not his thing, because it was what I wanted to do. But, I am counting it, since we are playing together as a family.

There are a few still photos but the funniest parts are the videos.

Most of the videos are only a few seconds, all of them are under 2 minutes. I hope you enjoy these... they still make me laugh!!!!

Here is a game clip of Wii Active Life Explorer we were playing in case you want to see what the games are actually like. The one where you have to stop and then walk/run then stop is one we played above, also the sliding down the ice one is the videos above where we were on our hands and knees or sitting on the floor.

These are the photos of the gifts I got from my daughter Rachel. I thought I would include them as it was part of our day together. She also made me the crocheted flower pin I was wearing.

This is a jar of encouraging notes my daughter wrote for me. Anytime I need a pick-me-up I can reach in and read one.

After I opened my gifts we played the new game I had purchased, but we had not played yet. I love board games and love trying new things. The game is Dicecapades. It has over 100 dice and has Trivia, Drawing, Word and Number Play and Physical Challenges all in one game. 

I was not able to look at all the trivia questions before we purchased the game so when we got home we realized the kids and I would not know one of the categories of questions. The category is popular music. We just really don't listen to worldly music at all. My husband would know some of the older stuff but not the new music. So to solve that problem instead of reading those questions we substituted questions from one of our Profeessor Noggin's Card Games. I believe this time we used the Space game as we were studying space at the time.

What was especially fun is that to choose your question for the Professor Noggin game you have to roll a die... it fits right in with the Dicecapades game and we have a lot of these Professor Noggin games so we can choose from a variety of subjects and play a different one each time we play Dicecapades.

Here we are setting up the game.

It was a great day and fun was had by ALL! as you could see from the videos.

August Themes

I have done some planning ahead for August and decided to share with you my current plans for Think Back Thursday so you can plan ahead while you are looking for this week's pictures you can be on the lookout for photos for the themes for the weeks ahead.

Next week

Aug. 2 - Earth/Dirt

Aug. 9 - Fire

Aug. 16 - Wind/Air

Aug. 23 - Rock

Aug. 30 - Night

The first 3 August posts are part of a series... we already did Water and Clouds. I decided to do some other basic "elements" of life on earth. I already have been thinking of some pictures for these posts, now I just have to find them in my many, many files. Aug. 30 can by any night shot, should be outside, inside at night is just an inside shot, not a night shot.

Here are the Rules for participating:
The purpose of Think Back Thursday is to link up a photo post about something from the past. You can reach back all the way to your childhood and bravely post pictures of you in your wild clothes and hair styles or post something from last year and tell us about it. I'm not picky. Hey, even yesterday was the past... LOL My posts will mostly be about events that happened prior to blogging, as a way to share those things with the world.

• It can be about you, about your kids, about your parents, whomever. You can include video, I will not exclude video alone posts, but I prefer them along with photos, as this is a photo meme. I am doing a weekly theme now. That should help narrow it down from the myriad of photos we all have. For ideas check out the other posts in my label Think Back Thursday. 
• Link up below. Please use a permalink that sends readers directly to the correct post. If you are not sure what that is click the word permalink for an explanation. 
• Mention my blog and offer a link back. This is a requirement to take part and a kind gesture to me your hostess as well as your readers--they will know where to join in the fun, too. You can put the Think Back Thursday button on your site and in your post. You will find it on my right sidebar. Please use it to link to my site, to spread the word about my meme. Using the button will help others know how to find me and how to join. Tell others to click on the button in your post to find us here.
• Leave me a comment. First so that you can let me know what you think of my pictures and secondly so that I will know a new post has been linked up and I can come visit your blog and comment on your photos. 

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