February Goals - Review

Well, February (with an extra day even!), has come and gone!  So time to look at how I did with my goals!

GENERAL

1. Write goals down and find a better place to keep them so I see them daily (maybe even have a couple of copies) Did this! 

FOR THE HOME

1. Clean off the end tables and keep them clean.  Um, oops (for the second month in a row...eek!)  I did at least clean them off, but somehow junk found it's way back!

2. Clean off the love seat (there is a picture I want hung and a box of Matt's stuff).  Nope, but since this is really Matt's thing, I guess I'm not too upset.

3. Get an estimate for rebuilding the built in entertainment structure (thanks Mom and Dad!)  Yeah again, whoops.  Since it's a friend of Matt's that is going to give us the estimate, it's not THAT big of a deal, but I still want to get it done.

AS A WIFE
1. Try to have a "date" night with Matt at least twice this month. Money is tight, so we might have to be a little creative, but our relationship is something very important to me. Well, we didn't do anything too special, but we had lunch together a couple of times, so it counts a little.

2. Keep up with our Daily Guideposts. I truly believe we both feel a lot closer to each other and God when we do this. We are actually WAY behind on this, primarily because we haven't been going to bed at the same times consistently lately.  Since he's not working, Matt has become quite the night owl!

FOR MY HEALTH
1. Take a walk with Matt at least once a week. We NEVER do this, so I think this may be a tough one, but it's important. I have walked at school, but I haven't been able to convince Matt to go with me yet!  I get bored walking so I'm gonna have to work harder to convince him!
2. Continue to have a healthy lunch everyday.  EVERY day except one day on the weekends.  I'm REALLY proud of this!
3. This might be another tough one for me, but I really want to try keeping a food journal.  I'm also really proud of this one.  I have done a great job at eating healthy for the majority of February.  I've been using myfitnesspal.com and it's WONDEFUL!

FOR GOD
1. Try out a few churches until we find one we like.  We only went to our churches this time, and not even every Sunday, so not so great on this one!

Well, I think this was better than last month, and secondly, I was most concerned with the eating healthy and exercising and I feel like I did pretty good there!

I'm so excited to see what March holds for us!

February Goals!

February 2010, Our Honeymoon :)

Well, I'm a bit late on these goals since we're over a week into February, but then I was late on my January goals too (so maybe I should set a goal to set my goals earlier haha!).  So anyway here goes!

GENERAL

1. Write goals down and find a better place to keep them so I see them daily (maybe even have a couple of copies).

FOR THE HOME

1. Clean off the end tables and keep them clean.



2. Clean off the love seat (there is a picture I want hung and a box of Matt's stuff).
3. Get an estimate for rebuilding the built in entertainment structure (thanks Mom and Dad!)

AS A WIFE
1. Try to have a "date" night with Matt at least twice this month.  Money is tight, so we might have to be a little creative, but our relationship is something very important to me.
2. Keep up with our Daily Guideposts.  I truly believe we both feel a lot closer to each other and God when we do this.

FOR MY HEALTH
1. Take a walk with Matt at least once a week.  We NEVER do this, so I think this may be a tough one, but it's important.
2. Continue to have a healthy lunch everyday.
3. This might be another tough one for me, but I really want to try keeping a food journal. 

FOR GOD
1. Try out a few churches until we find one we like.

Well there they are!  Now I'm gonna go write them down :)

January Goals Review

I can't believe it's already February, but it is, so it's time to see how I did on my goals for January!

1. FOR ME: Write down goals and put them somewhere that I will look at them daily (bathroom mirror, bedroom mirror?) I at least wrote them down, but I have to find somewhere better than our coffee table to keep them, because now I can't find them...oops!

2. FOR ME: One of my overall goals was to eat healthier this year and lose some of my "marriage weight". This month, I want to focus on eating a healthy lunch. My plan is to slowly change all of my eating habits, but I know I'm gonna have to take baby steps. So far, I've done really well with this (except on the weekends...gotta do better there!) Long story short...eat a healthy lunch EVERY weekday and try to do better on the weekends. Did pretty well on this, but it's a habit I REALLY want to keep up.  $5 footlongs at Subway should help!  There's one right on the way to work!  Plus I should go back to not working every day so that I can eat lunch at home sometimes.

3. FOR THE HOME: Our living room is so full of junk. We have gotten some things taken care of, so it looks better. Still not up to par. I would really like to get it to the point where we could straighten for 5 or 10 minutes and be able to have company over. We are extremely limited on funds, so this one might be a bit hard for us right now. So my January goal is going to be pretty simple, clean off the end tables, and keep them neat. Complete failure.  Guess this one's going on February's goals!  School books makes this a lot harder for me.

4. FOR THE BUDGET: This one is less of a goal and more of a necessity if we want to come out on the other side of unemployment with ANY savings left (which we do!). So my goal here is to COOK at least 4 nights a week and make sure we have MYO (make your own) items or leftovers for the other 2-3 nights. Well this one wasn't a total failure, but not totally complete either.  Matt has been cooking a little but I've been picking up something cheap on the way home a little too.  I had to extend my hours at work, so I wasn't getting home til about 7:30 which makes it hard to cook AND study AND get some time with the hubby in!  It's been a challenge for Matt and I both to find things he can cook/heat up, but it's also been kinda fun!

5. FOR MY MARRIAGE: My grandmother got us a Daily Guideposts book for Christmas again (thanks, Nana!) and I really want this to be a part of our lives. I very much feel like making God a bigger part of our marriage is essential. We are both Christians, but in my opinion, you can't have too much God in your marriage! So, Guideposts every night! Wellllll, it might be a stretch to say every night but we've tried to keep up.  Actually, I might need to go catch up on this week's now :)

6. FOR GOD: I want to make sure we figure out a way to be in church at least every other Sunday. I feel like I can be a good Christian without being in church, but I also feel so close to God when I'm there. This may mean finding a new church (my church and Matt's church are not one and the same, and they are both quite a drive, which means a lot of gas money when you're unemployed). So, church at least every other Sunday. This didn't happen.  We went to church once this month, which is better than none, but it needs to be more.  I think we're going to have to visit churches closer to home until we're back on our feet.  Suggestions are welcome!

So long story short, about half the goals I set, I met.  Hopefully I can increase that for February!