Follow-up...and it hasn't been a year, wow.

I have not been able to get to the gym due to schedules, so today I went out and bought some 5lb weights for me, and some 2 lb weights for the kids because inevitably they want to be doing what I'm doing. Today or tomorrow will be the first attempt at exercising from home. I will definately give an update of how that turns out!
And as for our schedule, I actually did sit down and type up a schedule for us. Implementing it is another story.

So, my goals for this week are to:
1) attempt working out at home everyday
2) implement our schedule

Have a great week to anyone ready this!!

Years in the making

Should it take years to accomplish the same goals? Whether it should or not, it does for me! So, here I am, back again. Needing courage and encouragement. Needing accountability and organization.

New or renewed goals!:
Get healthy! I was going to the gym every morning at 5:00am with a friend. One day, I got sooo dizzy at work. I decided to figure out if I was just exhausted, so I didn't go to the gym for the last week and...viola! Feeling better. I think I also had a cold, but it feels different out here because it is so dry. Anywho, I am needing to figure out a new gym schedule that benefits weightloss and promotes a healthy lifestyle! I think I need vitamins...

My goal for the gym- 3 days/wk preferrably at night! and take vitamins and drink lots of water!!
My goal for home-come up with a daily schedule for myself and the kids.

Hello all! (If there is anyone out there!)

Soooo.....how many years later??!! Anywho, I'm starting my fitness challenge up again! Challenging myself to whatever I can do, whatever I can fit in, the rest of this blasted weight must go!!

Anyone out there? If so, more to blog about later...

Current Biggest Goals

1. is of course finishing all the edits to my book.
2. finding ways to cut corners and save money.
3. plot out rest of the series so that if someone is interested in my book I can tell them what the next one is about.

That's all for now, my goal is to finish another draft of the novel by Friday so I can get my volunteer readers to comment on it, do another draft, then send it off!

Anyone still trying to follow this blog??!!

I would like to start posting again...and hear from everyone!! Let me know who's still remotely interested!! Hope everyone is doing great!! It would be great to hear what everyone is working towards these days.

Crickets!

But for your info, the book is going well. I'm chugging right along with it.

Anjali's worksheets are a little touch and go, sometime we do well and sometimes we don't.

Soon I'm moving Nadira into Anjali's room. I've started getting things ready.

New Goals, New Itch

It's been so long, dear friends, so long...

Awake and Arise!

I've got a few new goals I've been working on, that I'd like to share.

I've printed out a ton of preschool worksheets and Anjali and I have been working on them. In general I believe in learning through immersion, but since she'll be starting school in a couple of years, I figured it would be good to get her used to the common teaching methods being used in public school. The past few days she had me worried, she was pretending not to be able to count to ten. She's known how to for months. I know it was just a game, but it still had me worried. Too often bright girls pretend not to know the answers, I don't want Anjali to be one of them. Today she broke down and counted to get a sticker, lol.

I'm reading "Alice in Wonderland" to her right now, we're about half way through. With the new baby, the beautiful Nadira, our reading has declined greatly. I want to get back on top of that.

And my final goal I've started working on is writing, writing, writing. I've started my second novel, it's not the one I thought I'd write. It's YA, it's called "Meg Dare and the Bermuda Treaty", and so far I've got about 29 pages down, about 7,000 words. My goal is 2,000 words per day minimum. I've got that unsettled feeling, like I don't fit inside my own skin. I'm writing at nap times and late at night, eating junk food and chocolate. I'm dreaming about the novel, when I'm reading I'm reading about writing. I want to finish my first draft by April 1. My goal is for it to be about 80 to 90 thousand words.

Which leads to my words of encouragement to my slumbering friends. If you have a goal, a goal that is big, that you want to have as a career or a lifestyle, if there's something you want so bad you physically ache, seek it. Study it. Pray it. Be it. Do it. Breathe it. Let it become part of your very bones, so that when you're not doing it you feel so wrong that you absolutely have to do it. Become obsessed.

AWAKE! ARISE! Seek your dreams, make your goals, whether it's working out, being a better mom, eating healthy, or becoming a florist, a writer, a dreamer, a doer, an activist! AWAKE! ARISE! Plan, plot, and DO!