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Monday Motivation

Posted by html404 on November 8, 2010
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Ok, I missed last week’s motivation, but I was trying to start my vacation, well, from one client, however, I kept myself busy with another client’s stuff and farm and family stuff! What can I say? I can always find something to do! We even went to see a house near where we hope/plan to farm next year, but we really need to get this house fixed up before we can even try show it!

Last week’s Monday Motivation:

~ This week I am very thankful for two friends, Sarah and Professor, who have agreed to review products and write reviews. As an introduction, Sarah is our pastor’s wife, mom to seven and a former nurse. She enjoys gardening, healthy living and eating. Professor is my neighbor and friend who is mommy to three and an English Professor at the University of Phoenix online.

~ Since we were so busy last week, this week we will be staying home except for our outings to the YMCA to swim, which we all love. The children are improving. Two of them passed the swim test to swim in the deep end, so now they can really work on their endurance. We might even try the open rock climb this week. Rock climbing is on the agenda for this week! And the boys are now going under water, one of the girls has been brave enough to go off the diving board so our YMCA membership has now become our Christmas gift to ourselves!

~ Getting some client work done and preparing for some time off from one client for the month of November. Puttering on other business projects. This is ongoing.

~ Hopefully complete and submit our business plan to the Farm Business Development Center.This is ongoing as I figure out our projected income and expenses! The end is nearer than it was though.

~ Cleaning, cleaning, cleaning. So thankful we live in a small house that it will just take a little direction and participation from yours truly to hopefully get things in tip-top shape, well, as much as they can be with ten people living in under 1200 sq. ft! We’d love to entertain over the holidays and are simply not comfortable doing so until we purge and clean! The children have worked hard to keep things going while I was pregnant, worked and healed from having Sir Eats Alot, but I am well now and raring to go! Let’s see how much Sir Eats Alot cooperates. Ongoing, ongoing, ongoing…..

~ We are also revising Tuesday’s column to include health posts, so it will be Health & Garden Tuesday. I know we all desire to remain healthy during the winter season, so we hope to share what we are learning about building up our immune system and preventive ideas as well. Have some extra things to share that others have learned or are learning in this column as well. I just have to get the posts written up.

Hope you all are staying motivated as we head into winter. I’d love to hear some of your ideas for staying on top of things and keeping your motivation running so you remain an effective mommy/parent/friend/sister/daughter etc.

This week’s Motivation:

~ Cleaning and purging. Cleaning Walls and hoping to start painting! But I fully realize that my aspirations are much greater than I could ever humanly accomplish with this large family of mine. So by God’s grace, I will get done what I am meant to get done.

~ Swimming.

~ Field trip to Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry.

~ Lunch with Friends.

~ Getting rid of a mouse critter in our garage! One of the girls spotted it this morning….eeeewwwwwwww!

~ Regular every day stuff – refereeing, teaching, training children to be the best they can be with God’s help.

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Voter Responsibilities

Posted by html404 on October 30, 2010
in Family Stuff, Politics, Uncategorized

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Monday Motivation

Posted by html404 on October 25, 2010
in Baby Products, Family Stuff, Monday Motivation

Last week’s Monday Motivation:

~ This week we have a mommy blogging event that TheMotherhood.com and Wendy’s have coordinated. So we will be going to lunch with grandma and other mommy bloggers. As I already stated, this went very well. I think we bloggers and our friends and family packed out Wendy’s!

~ We also have another CRAFT (Collaborative Regional Agricultural Farmer Training) Field Day to attend. Looking forward to that. Besides getting a little lost due to not knowing the road I needed to be on turned right – no signs saying it did so – we enjoyed the afternoon outside in the fresh air learning about tomatoes, the farm, meeting new people and talking about farming.

~ Writing our business plan and submitting it is a priority so we can see where it takes us and hopefully allow us to plan for the approaching new year. Still working on this after a full week last week! Ugh, gotta get it done.

~ De-junk. Organize. We already have two big bags and a box to giveaway and I hope to have more before Vietnam Vets pick up comes this week. We just don’t want to be cleaning stuff we don’t need. It is so crucial for our sanity to get down to bare minimum. Just the basics here please. But do you know how hard it is? Hard. Believe me! If you are the praying kind, please pray that we discover what our bare minimum is for our family and home. We got rid of a bunch of things, but have a lot more to sift through, so this is ongoing.

This week’s Motivation:

~ Getting some client work done and preparing for some time off from one client for the month of November. Puttering on other business projects.

~ Hopefully complete and submit our business plan to the Farm Business Development Center.

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Wordless Wednesday: Baby Talk

Posted by html404 on October 20, 2010
in Family Stuff, Wordless Wednesday

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Monday Motivation

Posted by html404 on October 18, 2010
in Blog Stuff, Family Stuff, Gardening, Monday Motivation

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Last week’s Monday Motivation:

~ My husband and I have an appointment with the Executive Director of a farm incubator program that we are interested in. This meeting went better than I expected feeling rather unprepared. Now to finish our business plan!

~ We really need to do our end of season garden clean up! My husband has been battling a cold but is feeling better so we should be able to do the garden this weekend. The weekend weather turned out great and everyone was healthy so we were able to accomplish quite a bit in this area.

~ Swim lessons for the children. We decided to take advantage of the YMCA’s no enrollment fee (at least for this month as we test drive this membership thing) and have been swimming every day since Friday. Yes, even I went swimming once. The children love it. I am hesitant to take Sir Eats Alot in the pool at his young age or else I would be in there as much as the other children. I grew up swimming all the time. My mom tells me that my sisters and I were swimming by four. We’ve been swimming most days and only one child has been complaining about it and lessons. I think our four year old and two year old could take off swimming any time. They just need to gain more confidence and arm strength.

So I actually exercised! My goal is to get exercise while teaching my children how to swim. All of them are at different levels but for not growing up swimming I think they are all doing great. It’s exciting that we can share the love of swimming together. Yep, I swam again, but this out of shape mama needs to go slow. Not as young as I use to be, unfortunately. But I am loving our family time at the YMCA.

Other than that I am just trying to manage home, children, homeschooling and work. It is definitely a juggling act. That’s why I may be taking most of November off from most of my work-at-home responsibilities except for one client whose busiest season is Christmas. I need to regroup and refocus a bit and hope that time off will help. Still juggling!

This week’s Motivation:

~ This week we have a mommy blogging event that TheMotherhood.com and Wendy’s have coordinated. So we will be going to lunch with grandma and other mommy bloggers.

~ We also have another CRAFT (Collaborative Regional Agricultural Farmer Training) Field Day to attend. Looking forward to that.

~ Writing our business plan and submitting it is a priority so we can see where it takes us and hopefully allow us to plan for the approaching new year.

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Monday Motivation – A Day Late, Again

Posted by html404 on October 12, 2010
in Family Stuff, Monday Motivation

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Last week’s Monday Motivation:

~ We have a field trip planned this week to a farm. We had a great time! The children mostly played in the wide open spaces and loved the hay ride.

~ A friend offered her photography skills to take our family pictures so we are going to have a second field trip to the Botanical Gardens.This was another wonderful highlight of our week. The photos are complete and we had a wonderful time with our friends and enjoyed the beauty of the gardens.

~ Plus we have to do everything else we need to do for work and homeschooling. So I am really just trying to organize my time better, if that is even possible when I am nursing on-demand a six week old baby!? It seems most things are done along side nursing and holding Sir Eats Alot.

This week’s Motivation:

~ My husband and I have an appointment with the Executive Director of a farm incubator program that we are interested in.

~ We really need to do our end of season garden clean up! My husband has been battling a cold but is feeling better so we should be able to do the garden this weekend.

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Monday Motivation

Posted by html404 on October 4, 2010
in Family Stuff, Monday Motivation

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Last week’s Monday Motivation:

~ Go for 2-3 walks. Hmm…nope, nada, none.

~ Get most of our summer clothes packed up and winter clothes put away. Hmm….sort of done.

~ Work on our office. My area to declutter since it has gotten even more out of control since baby boy arrived. Hmm….barely hit the surface.

That is all I am even going to attempt to do this week since I have quite a bit of work to do for clients, plus homeschooling and a number of phone calls.

This week’s Motivation:

~ We have a field trip planned this week to a farm.

~ A friend offered her photography skills to take our family pictures so we are going to have a second field trip to the Botanical Gardens.

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The Mom Song :-)

Posted by html404 on September 28, 2010
in Family Stuff, Fun Stuff

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Monday Motivation

Posted by html404 on September 27, 2010
in Blog Stuff, Family Stuff, Monday Motivation

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Last week’s Monday Motivation:

This week we begin a new school schedule. I had planned to take the first month of Sir Eats Alot’s life to allow us time to enjoy his newborn days and not be rushed to get at school. Well, he turned a month old on Saturday and it was time to revamp our schedule, write some goals down and get the new school year underway. I even got the children’s school/chore lists written up for this week, handwriting for one child done for two weeks and spelling lists recorded on software that I am reviewing (another timely help that came to my door – Thank you Lord for knowing what we need!) So these alone are major accomplishments!

~ Get to the garden to begin gleaning anything left. We just haven’t got out there as often since baby came. We did this a couple of times and still need to get out there again. Not too much is remaining, but we seem to find enough when we go.

~ Sell any remaining produce at a Farmers Market. This will probably be one time at a private business. We had fun at the Farmers Market. Sold out of most of our produce and hope to sell at this market next season, Lord willing.

~ Declutter one area. Hmm….I think we cluttered more areas when a cold snap went through and we were scrambling for warmer clothing!

~ Visit the YMCA regarding their homeschool gym/swim classes. I called.

~ Go for a walk at least two more times this week. Made it one more time, but I did get out shopping for a couple of hours with Sir Eats Alot and two daughters so that plus the standing working at our co-op day and the farmers market account for exercise too, right?

That’s about it. I could add more, but I am trying to only bite off what I can chew. Now I am off to get on with our new afternoon schedule! Enjoy yours!

This week’s Motivation:

~ Go for 2-3 walks.

~ Get most of our summer clothes packed up and winter clothes put away.

~ Work on our office. My area to declutter since it has gotten even more out of control since baby boy arrived.

That is all I am even going to attempt to do this week since I have quite a bit of work to do for clients, plus homeschooling and a number of phone calls.

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