Reflections and Goals for 2010

Reflections from 2009..

Goals I accomplished/kept:

• I am meal planning much more consistently
• Thanks to the discovery of allergies (wheat, dairy, sugar), it jump started us into eating much healthier - I now make almost everything from scratch - and our cupboard has been purged of pretty much all processed foods!
  
• I have begun buying more organic, as the budget allows - at least for the important stuff (ie, leafy greens, carrots, peanut butter, etc)
• I have purged a good majority of plastics from the kitchen (& home), and replaced them with either stainless steal, glass, or wood....   
• I have switched KB & myself (and all household products, including laundry soap) to non-toxic/natural products.... 
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• I bought some Essential oils, and have begin using them
• I finally got my SuperMom vitamins, and are taking them
• I have only had a handful of sodas (resolution: cut back to very few, if any)
• I have become much more conscious about what is going into our mouths/bodies (label Nazi! :)
• We have set up and have been implementing a weekly date night! <3

Ones I did NOT accomplish: 

• getting into a daily exercise routine
• getting into a routine of having a regular, daily devotion
• reading some of the books I wanted. 
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• Lead at least dozen souls to Christ

* These will be have to be revived & added to next year... 

 Goals for 2010.... 

Personal:

• getting into a daily exercise routine (hopefully getting WiiFit soon!!)
• getting into a routine of having a regular, daily devotion
• Learn more about Essential oils / put into practice (get book from beeyoutiful)
• Remember to take my SuperMom vitamins & other supplements, every day
• Make more friends - Make conscious effort to connect with others around me
• Try to be more understanding, rather than critical  (this even applies to those who choose following blindly/oblivion, over education/intellect/instinct... hmph!) 
• Listen - don't be so quick to speak/interrupt... (esp of my husband)
• Trust more freely.... esp myself. 
• Make more friends - Make conscious effort to connect with others around me. 
• Be bolder about my wittness.
• Leave a tract at each table, in every restaurant we dine.
• Get to bed by 1am - wake up by 9am

Start and/or actually finish some of the following books: 

• Nourishing Traditions 
• Created to be His Helpmeet (Will be doing this as a Bible study with some CP ladies)
• Passionate Housewives Desperate for God
• Power of Praying Wife
• Becoming the Woman of His Dreams (finish)
• For Women Only (finish)
•  Do You Mind if Your Kids Don't?
• Just Friends (finish)
• Diaper Free
• Diaper Free Baby
• How to Raise a Healthy Child in Spite of Your Doctor 
• Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves
• 5 Love Languages for Children
• Families Where Grace Is in Place
• Graced-Based Parenting (finish)
• The Continuum Concept
• Thinking Womans Guide to a Better Birth

Homemaking:

• Buy Kamut grain/ start grinding & baking our own bread, etc.
• Learn more about sprouting & implement into our diet
• Begin making yogurt.
• Revamp the old housekeeping schedule, and get back to it
• Keep on top of laundry - keep house picked up/uncluttered/simple. 
• Find & try more [healthy] recipes! 
• Find a local egg source.

Couple/Family: 

• Continue weekly date nights
• Start a daily devotion together - as a family
• Get KB on a little more of a schedule
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• Pay off our credit card (goal: by April 2010)
• Cherish every moment we have, growing as a family - don't let outside "activities" steal away our joy.
• Get B & KB taking daily vitamins - Get him SuperDad & her SuperKids vitamins
  
  
• Hope/Dream: At least be preggo by the end of the year! :)