This Month's Goals - Month 7

This month I'm going to work on a few different things.

1 - Follow a consistent schedule.  I made myself a schedule last month as I was organizing.  In past years, I function best with a planned day.  Otherwise I get tunnel vision and waste time on whatever I'm focused on in the moment.  I tried a schedule in the summer and it didn't work.  I'm going to try focusing more energy on it this time in hopes that it will work and help me be more efficient, giving me more time for what matters most, especially my family!  I'm going to keep in the back of my mind that the schedule is a guideline and people always come first.

2 -  Pay better attention to how I show affection to my children through physical touch-- another of the five love languages.  This is not a hard thing for me with my little ones (so easy to shower little hugs and kisses on those little cheeks!), I just want to be more conscious and aware of how much affection my older kids are getting.  I've also become aware that some of my kids crave more physical affection than others (um, a little girl who wants to sit in my lap at every meal, who hangs on me when I'm changing diapers, you get the picture), and make sure I tailor this to each individual child's needs.

3 - For my own well filling:  drink 8 glasses of water a day and start a reading a book that pushes me intellectually and is outside my normal comfort zone.  :)

4 - For my husband:  hold his hand more.  :)

I also have something I'm going to work on from a religious perspective but it would probably bore you. :)

Have a wonderful Halloween!  I hope you weren't caught in the storm on the East Coast, and if you were, I hope you and your loved ones are okay (I thought of you constantly!).  As long as we are ok, I enjoy those crazy times when we have no power because we have some good bonding times together (even the time our house flooded one week before I was due with my fifth baby!).  How do you feel about crazy storms?