I guess it’s been 3 months since I made this goal on 43T and a year since we’ve been at our current church, trying to tithe loyally. We decided it’s easiest for us to write a check each week rather than once a month and have been taking 10% off our gross pay (rather than net, which we were doing previously.) Sometimes we cut it kind of close, but the Lord has always provided for our needs in wonderful ways! We are trying to give more in the form of offerings to missions etc., but it has been tough and that’s our next priority!
Mel's Life List
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1. pray more
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2. read my bible daily
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3. do my devotions daily
1 cheer49 people -
4. stick to my FLYLADY routines
1 cheer45 people -
5. take a photograph every day
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6. walk every day
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7. read to my kids everyday
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8. exercise four times a week
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9. give generously and faithfully to missions
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10. write more letters by hand
1 entry . 4 cheers524 people -
11. knit socks
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12. Host a Pampered Chef Party
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13. volunteer at the library
1 entry30 people -
14. become debt free
1 entry558 people -
15. Make new friends, but keep the old
1 entry32 people -
16. finish my degree
1 entry2,538 people -
17. learn to play the guitar
1 cheer12,656 people -
18. knit a sweater
772 people -
19. learn woodworking
82 people -
20. learn to knit continental style
1 entry5 people -
21. learn to sew
1 entry3,647 people -
22. Teach my children to love God.
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23. learn to knit intarsia
19 people -
24. Learn Japanese
1 entry . 1 cheer9,735 people -
25. Be a Proverbs 31 woman
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26. climb mt. fuji
1 entry . 1 cheer131 people -
27. have a home birth
1 entry . 1 cheer31 people -
28. improve my vocabulary
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29. homeschool my kids
1 cheer52 people -
30. teach Sunday School
15 people -
31. become a scout leader
1 entry . 2 cheers13 people -
32. sell things on etsy
155 people -
33. become a Bradley Method natural childbirth instructor
1 entry1 person -
34. teach high school mathematics and/or physics
1 entry1 person -
35. teach piano
28 people -
36. build a square foot garden
7 people -
37. learn how to spin yarn
64 people -
38. raise sheep
17 people -
39. open a yarn shop
10 people -
40. read every book on the Modern Libraries top 100 books of the 20th century
112 people -
41. Memorize Scripture
186 people -
42. Make a quilt
1,093 people
How I did it: When I became pregnant, I was enrolled in a college English class. We had to do a research paper on a topic of our choice, and I decided to do mine on the environmental and financial impacts of cloth diapering versus disposable diapering a baby. I knew pretty much nothing going into it, and by the time I wrote my paper, I had myself convinced! Websites were my biggest resource and I read so many articles and message boards, talked to diap… Read how I did it…
Yesterday a friend had to rush to the emergency room, so I babysat her little girl for about 8 hours. Of course, I skipped my gym appointment and didn’t fill the time with any other exercise. It’s okay, though. Chasing around two babies is exercise enough for one night! :-)
Today we went to the yoga/pilates class. It was nice and I do enjoy the class, but now that I’m getting a pregnant belly, I’m thinking I’ll need to do something else. Yoga in general is fine while pregnant, but our instructor chooses a lot of positions that are getting pretty uncomfortable. There is an indoor cycling class at the same time that I think I’ll start taking.
My last blog update was in October and I’ve been very busy since then and haven’t wanted to sit down for so long to write the post. Yesterday I finally wrote it all up and published what’s been happening since October! There are still some things that I would like to blog about, but they’ll be much shorter posts and I’ll definitely get to them. At least I broke the silence and can now get to some sort of a regular blogging routine!

