Weekly goals/to do for September 1st, 2013

I gave myself a little break last week and posted only a few to dos. I did all but make a dentist appointment for Brooklyn and Kellan. Now that school has started I should be able to accomplish a bit more.

• Make Brooklyn a dentist appointment
• write a letter and send picture to Grandma Hurd
• Have kids go through toys
• think about starting a moms group

Inspiring Friday: August 30, 2013

"One man with courage makes up a majority." – Andrew Jackson

"Great minds have purpose, others have wishes." – Washington Irving

"Men see what is and ask why. I see what could be and ask why not." – Pablo Picasso

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." – Winston Churchill

"You can't turn back the clock, but you can certainly wind it up again." – Unknown

Friendship is a gift. A friend is someone who fills our lives with beauty, joy and grace, and makes the world in which we live a better and happier place" – Unknown

weekly goals/to do list for week of August 26, 2013

I skipped last week but praise the Lord that Brooklyn had a successful tonsil and adenoid surgery.

• Make Brooklyn and Kellan a dentist appointment
• Nolan needs a haircut
• Start kids bedtimes at 8pm and 9pm for my oldest son

Inspiring Friday: August 16, 2013

"It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself." – Thomas Paine

"A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies." – William Wrigley Jr.
 

"I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying." – Michael Jordan

"We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount ... The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants." – General Omar Bradley

"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give." – Winston Churchill
 

"I always view problems as opportunities in work clothes." – Henry Kaiser, businessman

Weekly to do/goals for week of August 13

• fill out MSU survey
• List 2 items on ebay
• Take Brooklyn to doc/urgent care before surgery
• Grocery shop
• Declutter Brooklyn's room
• back to school event
  

We went camping last week so I didn't get all of my goals to dos done last week but I did get some done. We had our yearly family vacation and that is something!

Weekly goals/to dos for August 3rd

It seems I may have skipped a week or maybe two but I want to be back on track.

• Walk at least 3 times a week
• pay for BML bill
• Take Brooklyn to appointment
• Send Grandma H. a book and note
• Go to Library event (have not made it to one yet. It seems like I either forget or have an appointment the same day)

Inspiring Friday: August 2, 2013

"The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought
not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe
to be just." - Abraham Lincoln

"Heroes are ordinary men and women who dare to see and
meet the call of a possibility greater than themselves.
People who, despite their doubts and fears, commit
themselves to action. People who go beyond their limits
in what they think is possible." - Joan Holmes

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that
good men do nothing." - Edmund Burke

"We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take
charge and rule our lives from within." - Earl
Nightingale

"What you get by achieving your goals is not as
important as what you become by achieving your goals."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people
live in a hostile world. Same world." - Dr. Wayne Dyer