Here is a snapshot of my Friday morning after dropping my son off at preschool: Return books at the library, return vitamins that my son decided that he didn't like at Harris Teeter, get gas (because I was almost out again), get groceries at Giant to use coupons that were going to expire in a few days, go home and unpack everything, clean the counters, clean the floors, put the laundry in the dryer from the load that did early in the morning, and then turn around and go pick up my son. After I got my son, we went to another Giant to get more of the Gerber stuff with the coupons and then to the library to pick up my books on reserve (because they were closed when I went there in the morning) and then it was past time to go home and have lunch. We had lunch and did some activities and it was time to start getting ready to make dinner so I put the ingredients in the bread maker to make the pizza dough and then we walked around the neighborhood and played outside. Brief break to come inside and then we were back outside to ride bikes and Daddy came home so he stayed outside while I went to make three individual pizzas for dinner. I don't know how I could have made it to exercise class and gotten even a quarter of that done because the exercise class takes up most of the time that my son is in school. Does anyone have the answer to add more hours into the day?? I really need it or a way to become way more productive while still entertaining a four year old :)
Hope you had a good week and have plans to have an even better week this week!!
Last week:
Family Goals
Spend time with family- We got to spend a lot of time together this week and my husband even got to visit with his sister.Swimming Lessons- This weeks class was a little better. If there was something that we were supposed to do, I just did a little more then the other kids because my little man is a little bigger then the others and can do it a little faster. He was getting bored before so I wanted to keep him interested.Get to preschool on time everyday- A fight as always and we barely made it one day because as we were leaving the house, he decided he needed toast and couldn't do it without toast.My Gym class and Open Play- This was our last week of class and I think that he is going to be sad but I am trying to find things to fill in the gaps.
Cut coupons- It is a miracle but I cut all of the past coupons that I had on the counter including a pile or inserts that my friend gave me and I cleaned out all the expired coupons in my basket. I started this last month at the end of the month instead of the beginning of the next month because it gives me a chance to pull at the coupons that expire at the end of the month and figure out if there are any that I would like to use before they expire...seems smart right? I have a full recycling bin of all the expired ones and then a little basket for those that expire in the next three days which will mostly likely end up in the recycling. My coupon basket closes now!Get coupons on Friday- My husband went to get the papers at the library after I was unsuccessful earlier in the day with CVS, library and Giant because they weren't delivered yet. The man at the library told him that he could only take two papers... umm, since when? So he took two and went to Giant and grabbed the last eight that they had there. I went to another library by my exercise class on Saturday and got another ten papers and a few books that I wanted to check out. A little more work this week but mission accomplished. Now I have three inserts to cut.Go to Jazzercise- I went to Jazzercise on Tuesday and brought my friend with me on Thursday. I was super glad to have a friend join me!! It is always hard to drag yourself to exercise class but better with a friend. I made it on Saturday but really didn't want to drag myself out of the house...glad that I did but three times this week again.Shut off computer 6 nights to save energy- I did forget to shut off the computer at the beginning of the week because I was falling asleep on the couch but I got it off most of the times that we left the house so it got lots of rest.Start new book since I just finished my last one- I read a lot this week and finished the next few books. All of the posts should be up soon because I wrote and scheduled them.Read next book in the pile- I read almost the whole pile this week with the remaining book that I need to read being the book review book that I just started. I wish that I put that one up top but library books are on a deadline and seem to call to me so I waited to pick up my library reserves until I was reading that book so that I didn't get side tracked again :)
Clean dishes, counters and floors at least 5 days of the week- Kitchen was rough this week and I did really well with the counters and horrible with the floors. I decided that I would clean them on my hands and knees on Friday to make up for it along with the million other things on my list that I wasn't getting done so they are better now. I wish that I was a neater cook but I think most of kitchen mess is my fault.Clean dishes one night and not wait until the morning- This week was rough but my husband washed the dishes two mornings and I finally washed them on Thursday night so that the kitchen would be totally clean on Friday morning to get the last day of the school week off right. I had so many other things to do during the week that whenever I went into the kitchen, I usually ended up making more dishes instead of cleaning them with muffins and cookie bars and dinner!
Post one post everyday (schedule 7 posts so that can spend more time with family)- Getting towards the end of the month always makes for a lot of posts to close out the month so there are way more then 7 posts this week. We are going to reach 1000 posts next month so I am super excited about it!! I can't believe that I have written that much.Review book reviews completed during the week (if done)- DoneWork on a few posts to work ahead for the coming week- Done but need to do morePost Sunday Weekly Goals, Menu Plan Monday, Kid Wednesday and Thrifty Thursday Tip- I did okay this week but with so many other posts up, I did move some other posts to Thursday and skipped the Thrifty Thursday. I am sure that I could have come up with something but there was nothing burning that I had to get out so I just decided that I would spread out all the other things that I had since I have so many end of the month posts.
Family Goals
- Spend time with family including Grandma and Grandpa
- Swimming Lessons
- Get to preschool on time everyday
- Park on Wednesday since we don't have anymore My Gym classes
- Cut coupons
- Get coupons on Friday
- Go to Jazzercise
- Consignment sale
- Shut off computer 6 nights to save energy
- Finish reading Forever Friday by Timothy Lewis
- Read next book in the pile by Robyn Carr or Beverly Lewis (hopefully both)
- Clean dishes, counters and floors at least 5 days of the week
- Clean dishes one night and not wait until the morning
- Post one post everyday (schedule 7 posts so that can spend more time with family)
- Review book reviews completed during the week (if done)
- Work on a few posts to work ahead for the coming week
- Post Sunday Weekly Goals, Menu Plan Monday, Kid Wednesday and Thrifty Thursday Tip
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