by Jamie Jeffers | Nov 30, 2015 | Goals
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I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving and a nice relaxing weekend!
We had a great Thanksgiving day. Then I was able to find some good deals and get a good start to my Christmas shopping over the weekend.
Here’s how we did on the goals last week:
Home and Barn
Clean, clean, clean in prep for an easy Thanksgiving (although we are travelling, not hosting) and also so we can start Christmas decorating on Black Friday- Move goats into a different pen and do some repairs
Bathroom project! (Even baby steps are moving us towards our goal)
Money/Frugal Goals
Be very picky about my Christmas shopping This wasn’t a SMART goal, but I feel good about how it went.Earn 250 Swagbucks I was able to cash in for a $25 Amazon gift card! FYI, the $25 is cheaper than the other denominations of Amazon cards.
Family Goals
Enjoy our favorite Thanksgiving and Christmas season traditions togetherPrepare a Jesse tree for Advent (I’ve wanted to do this for several years!)Work on the Baby’s First Christmas stocking (that should have been done 2 years ago…whoops!!)
Blog Goals
Continue to grow Twitter accountWrite a Thanksgiving post
Personal Goals
- Daily Bible readings
- 6 Burpees on 5 days
- Finish reading Better Than Before and blog about it
- Eat 5 fruits and/or veggies per day
New goals for the week:
Home/Barn
- Deck the halls!
- Declutter 5 bags of stuff
Money/Frugal Goals 
Family Goals
- Jesse tree for Advent
- Finish Baby’s First Christmas stocking (We use these to celebrate St. Nick Day each year.)
- Make cookies
Blog Goals
- Grow Twitter account to 300
- Get a week ahead on posts
Personal Goals
- Daily Bible readings
- exercise 4 times
- Finish reading Better Than Before and blog about it
- Eat 5 fruits and/or veggies per day
That’s where we are this week! How will you spend your hours this week? Is there anything you still want to accomplish in 2015?
by Jamie Jeffers | Nov 23, 2015 | Goals
I had great plans for last week. However, lurking germs had totally different plans! Not much you can do when your little ones are fighting a stomach bug. So several of our plans had to be laid aside.
I’m just thankful that it was only a minor stomach bug since there are so many parents out there worried about far worse things happening in their children’s lives!
So not a whole lot of things got checked off of my list. And since it’s going to be a short holiday kind of week, I’m not even going to move all of those things to this week. We’re going to focus on food, family, and gratitude!
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by Jamie Jeffers | Nov 16, 2015 | Goals
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Monday means the start of a new week with lots of possibilities. Here’s how I intend to use my minutes this week.
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by Jamie Jeffers | Nov 9, 2015 | Goals
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Last week was every bit as busy as it looked on paper. Even more so with a few events popping up at the last minute! I was very happy that I decided to take it easy on my weekly goals knowing that I had such a busy time scheduled.
Sometimes you have season where you have to give yourself grace and realize that you can come back to marching towards your goals again soon. There is no reason to frustrate yourself. Sometimes that frustration just leads to you falling further and further behind.
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Here’s what we got finished:
Home & Barn
Continue work on bathroom redo- List 5 more items for sale
Money/Frugal Goals
Family Goals 
Family time (kids have Election Day off of school)One on one time with my daughter
Blog Goals
- Finish mapping out posts to the end of the year (halfway done)
Increase mini blogging on Facebook This is so much fun!Spend more time on Pinterest (What a “tough” job blogging is!)Research guest blogging and begin process
Personal Goals
- Daily Bible readings
- 6 Burpees on 5 days
- Finish reading Better Than Before and blog about it
New goals for this week are…
Home and Barn
- Continue bathroom project
- Clean out barn pen
- List 5 things for sale
- Paint some baseboards
Money/Frugal Goals
Family Goals
- Have a family game night
- Have some friends over
- Reestablish chore charts
Blog Goals
- Finish plan through end of year
- Write a guest post
Personal Goals
- Daily Bible readings
- 6 Burpees on 5 days
- Finish reading Better Than Before and blog about it
- Eat 5 fruits and/or veggies per day
What are your priorities this week?
by Jamie Jeffers | Nov 1, 2015 | Goals
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It seems like I was just complaining about how fast September passed us by, and here it is…already time to be amazed that it is now November! 2016 will be here before we know it.
But that’s enough of that kind of talk.
We had a great time celebrating Halloween with some good old family fun. I’ve been doing some mini blogging about that sort of thing over on Facebook. So be sure to head over and give me a “like” there!
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by Jamie Jeffers | Oct 26, 2015 | Goals
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Last week finally ran a bit more smoothly than the past few weeks had gone. So we were able to get some things accomplished. Yay!
We really are nearing the end of the year at a rapid pace, so it’s time for us to take a look at what we wanted to accomplish this year. There are a couple of time sensitive things that can’t be accomplished now, but overall we are marching towards our bigger goals pretty well.
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