Last week’s Monday 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. Didn’t get much done at all in making a dent with the house.

~ Swimming. Got to the Y three times and hoping to get at least that many trips in per week.

~ Field trip to Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry. Lovely day in the city. Only got to see one floor so we hope to go back again soon.

~ Lunch with Friends. This was canceled due to my friend’s youngest having a cold. We are rescheduling.

~ Getting rid of a mouse critter in our garage! One of the girls spotted it this morning….eeeewwwwwwww! We set traps and caught two, so we are hoping to get anymore that might be out there as well.

~ Regular every day stuff – refereeing, teaching, training children to be the best they can be with God’s help. This is never ending in our family. We have lots of room for improvement!

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.

~ I start a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) course this week and have a few meetings away from home. Thankfully, my husband’s work schedule is flexible that he is able to be with the children while I am gone.

~ Finish up our business plan finally and finally submit it.

~ Get to the Thrift Store.

~ 77Kids holiday charity event! Looking forward to that! Thanks to The Motherhood and 77Kids.