Progress

Time for an update! I'm excited to say that our master bedroom and master bathroom are now painted. It took around 2 weeks to tape and paint and I'm really happy with the results. Now over time, we will buy some curtains and bedding. There isn't a rush for those things. I'm just happy I could get the painting done before the weather gets nice and all I want to do is be outside. :) 

I'm happy to report that I've still been meeting my new year goals. I'm working on reading 3 different books right now. When I finish, I will write a book summary on each of those books. My goal has been to read 2-3 new books per month. So far I've met that goal for the past 3 months.

I've also been getting up early 5-6 days a week. Right now, 6:00 is the earliest I get up and I usually sleep in on Saturday and Sunday. This time has become a luxury and I look forward to it every day (even if it's hard to get out of bed some days). 

I've been keeping up with tidying well. The only thing I have left to do is the pantry, but I need some bins from IKEA to help me do that. I haven't had the chance to get up there recently so I will just wait to do that. 

I've added working out to my goals. I felt like once I could be disciplined with a few different things, I could add another thing in the mix. I started with Jillian Michaels 30 day Shred. It lives up to it's name-it shredding me. (UGH). Right now I've been getting in 4-5 days a week. Any more days than that and I get too exhausted and tired. 

I'm trying to BE in bed by 10:30 every night. It's not easy, but most nights I am meeting that goal. It makes getting up in the morning much easier. 

I've been trying to find times to implement reading with Cora and finding times to talk about Jesus with her. I've been using casual moments here and there to chat with her about it. Today she asked to bring her Bible to Bible study with us. It melted my heart. I found her a bag that looked like mine and we put her Bible in there with it. Although she doesn't use it for her class, I thought it was sweet she wanted to bring it. I think we will make that a habit. :) 

I haven't blogged much recently, but I feel like I am doing it enough to keep track of what I am learning from my reading and also just my thoughts on life. I need to start keeping a notepad handy, though, so that when I get an idea of something I want to blog about, I can remember it later. 

The one goal I think I can be better about is giving more. I haven't kept up well with writing cards to other people. I ran out of stamps and I let it become an excuse to not write them. I also feel like I could be giving more in other ways, but I think I will pray this week for ways that I can do that for other people. 

This isn't an interesting post. It's just accountability for me to reevaluate my New Years goals and make sure that I am accomplishing what I set out to do this year. :)