vnj6191

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  1. 1. plan ahead for a low-stess, family-focused holiday season
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  2. 2. work in the bedroom until it is a relaxing, calming, romantic space
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  3. 3. Complete a 5K before my 40th birthday
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  4. 4. strength training for upper body/abs
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  5. 5. Control my schedule.........and not let my schedule control me!
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  6. 6. As a gift to myself, lose 20 lbs by Christmas 2009.
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  7. 7. track what I eat
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  8. 8. Read/study/take notes regularly on the topic of health, fitness and nutrition
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  9. 9. make 10 new healthy recipes
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  10. 10. Simple pleasures
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  11. 11. Work in the Pantry until it is a clean, efficient room that makes me smile:)
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  12. 12. finish painting the fence
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  13. 13. Teach my boys that a real man is a man of integrity!
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  14. 14. make an effort to keep fun and romance in our marriage
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  15. 15. Take time to do fun and meaningful stuff with my kids!
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  16. 16. teach my 16 year old how to drive safely
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  17. 17. Establish smart boundaries and give good guidance to my 16 year old as he begins the new experience of "dating" young ladies
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  18. 18. Intentionally express love and care to my parents and my parents-in-law
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  19. 19. play the piano more
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  20. 20. be quick to listen and slow to speak
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  21. 21. be an optimist
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  22. 22. learn to do simple home maintenance MYSELF
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  23. 23. Embrace Tamhawk with Happy Birthday wishes and love and cheers on October 28th
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How I did it
How to finish back-2-school prep for my 3 boys
It took me
2 weeks
It made me
bittersweet!


How to purge the kitchen of anything I don't use/need/love
It took me
12 days
It made me
say "WOW!"


How to actually plan ahead to accomplish vacation prep (i.e. packing, laundry, housecleaning) so that it is not a terrible, frantic rush the last two days before we leave
It took me
10 days
It made me
calm!


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Recent entries
plan ahead for a low-stess, family-focused holiday season (read all 3 entries…)
things to do this week 2 weeks ago

Here is what I would like to work on this week:

1. Make a BIG DENT in the attic! Try to work in here a little everyday…..even if it’s only for a couple of minutes!

2. Do gobs of laundry! My laundry is so far behind! It is causing major chaos in my regular routine right now!

3. Wrap teacher gits.

4. Discuss gifts/possibly shop with hubby this weekend. Hubby and I are going away together for the weekend, so maybe we can do some gift planning together this weekend.

5. Work on at least ONE handmade gift this week.



Complete a 5K before my 40th birthday (read all 35 entries…)
YES!!! 2 weeks ago

Run #35 tonight! And I had my BEST RUN TIME EVER!!!
I am proud to say that tonight I was able to improve my time by a little over one lap! I completed 25 1/3 laps tonight in 20 minutes.

We ran our usual intervals of walk 3, run 5 (repeated 4x).

My legs were strong tonight. That helped. I also decided that I would try to run as fast as I could after the 5th lap during each run interval. This is what put me over the top of my previous 24 lap record.

My next goal is to reach 26 total laps. Hoping to do this in the next couple of runs.



plan ahead for a low-stess, family-focused holiday season (read all 3 entries…)
making some progress 2 weeks ago

OK….......I actually feel like I’ve made some progress here:)

This week, by chipping away at it a little every day, I was able to do the following.

1. I did some online shopping for son #3. I also did a bit of shopping for hubby.
2. I wrapped all the gifts I have purchased so far (about 15 gifts). I put them in a storage container in my bedroom and covered them w/ a blanket to hopefully keep them concealed.
3. I bought 4 6-packs of Hershey bars for the boys to give to their school teachers as gifts.
4. I made some progress in the attic. I need to clean it out so I can get to the Christmas decorations by the end of this month. Right now I can’t get to them!!!!



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