Goals... and 400 posts...

So, I just saw that this is my 400th post! Wow... that is crazy!

Anyway, I feel pretty good about how things went last week. I got the majority of my list done... the only exceptions being work on the last 4 items (which, like I said, were just suggestions on my part, ha ha). I did not work on my cross stitch at ALL (I don't even know why I have that on my list, besides it being an unfinished project. It's so hugely massive, and it's my first cross stitch... which I was given as a gift... and I just don't enjoy it much). I did work on the blankets, but all I did was prep the fabric. Now sewing done yet. I'm hoping to do a bit of sewing this week... if I allow myself the time. Otherwise I feel good about what I got done.

This is a new month, and therefore there is a new challenge! I was going to do something different, but in the end I'm finding myself tired so quickly so I decided to pick something a little more 'normal'. So, for the month of March, our challenge will be to clean the windows/mirrors/glassworks in the focus rooms of each week!

This week we will focus on the living room, dining room, and entrance/hallway. A large area, but generally not many windows overall, am I right?

To Do: March 1-6, Focus: Living, Dining, Entrance areas

• sweep
• vacuum
• bathrooms
• laundry
• exercise (Mon, Wed, Fri)
• Farm books
• Personal paperwork
• window, TV, glass doors in Living Room
• windows/mirrors in entrance/dining areas and hall
• dust baseboards and trim (in focus areas)
• extra dusting in entrance/dining room
• extra dusting in living room
• organize entrance closet
• put up frames in entrance
• make 'words' and put them up with the frames (only rough up right now)
• plan and print photos for other frames
• Farm Data collection apptmt: Thurs
• Doctor Apptmt Friday
• bake oatmeal cookies
• scrapbook 2 pages
• work on kids book
• work on payroll
• sew blankets (2 of 3)
• bake cake (and make buttercream icing) for Monday's class

I must admit, I am getting tired a lot quicker lately. That would be one of the reasons I don't have a load of stuff crossed off my list as I'm posting it. I hope to do a number of these things today yet (after I put my daughter down for her nap), but I have to admit to being tired very quickly lately. I don't know how much I will get done on those last two items, but I'm hoping to get rather far with the rest of them.

I have other goals as well that I wish to pop up onto this post while I'm at it.

My exercise goals have changed from month to month, much like the house challenges have. January's goal was to work out on the Wii Fit Monday-Friday for 30minutes or 100 calories. February my goal changed to 3 days a week instead of five, and I started measuring my waist weekly and logging my steps. My goal was to hit 10,000 steps Mon, Wed, and Fri, and 7-8000 steps Tues, Thurs, and Sat. I didn't log any steps Sundays. I managed to do pretty well with that. Yet again, however, I am changing my workout goals.

I will keep trying to exercise 3x a week, but the step counts are... a lot. I noticed that I generally log 5000 steps a day just doing normal work, but even normal work is getting to be more difficult lately. So, I think I'm going to try to average 7500 steps daily over the week (again, not including Sundays). We'll see how it goes. My other goal involves food. I have had very little willpower where sweets are concerned, and that is due to my not caring how much I consume. So, I decided to not allow myself more than 200calories of unhealthy sweets per day. That means one dessert only. No joke. And sometimes only half of one. Ok, mostly only half of one. However, I cannot allow myself to continue consuming so many sugary treats if I'm decreasing my activity level (again, due to need. I cannot physically keep up with myself). That's less than a third of what I have been eating, folks. I'm not joking. I've been a bad girl (funny thing is, I generally don't have a major thing for sweets... that just happened with this pregnancy). So, I'm stocking up on fruit to help satisfy my sweet tooth, and I'm going to start baking healthier sweets once again (ones sweetened more with fruits than sugar or chocolate). Wish me luck!

Another goal I'm attempting to do is one where Lent is concerned. I haven't posted on this yet, but our pastor has been challenging us on a weekly basis to do something different until Easter. Yesterday it was to read a chapter in Proverbs and James each day. The week before it was to give up something, and in place of that spend time in prayer (a TV show, internet time, a specific food, etc). I decided to give up that extra 15-30 minutes I spend just lazing in my bed in the morning before my daughter wakes up (a major struggle for me), and spend more time in God's word than I have been in the mornings. It was successful for the first few days... until my daughter started actually waking up about 20-30 minutes earlier. Sigh. And the fact that I have not been sleeping well hasn't helped my resolve either. I think I need to add 'go to bed earlier' to the list.

So, how are your goals coming along? Have you met your last weeks goals? What was your biggest accomplishment on your list? How do you feel about the challenge for the month of March? I wish you all the best on your lists, goals, and relaxing (if that is what you choose to do this week... I'm thinking of having that as one of my weekly challenges yet, haha). :)