Keeping Up With...2021 Goals (Weekly Recap 2/15 - 2/21)

Last week was another weird one and it went by in a flash! We started with a holiday on Monday and everyone had the day off from work and school which was great. We spent the day doing stuff around the house and getting caught up on a few things after spending the whole weekend hanging out and relaxing. The rest of the week was a lot of snow, ice and schedule changes for all of us. The school district was all virtual on Tuesday and Thursday which isn't a huge deal for my boys, but it does change their schedule a little bit. I worked at the church preschool on Wednesday which meant none of our friends came over that day. And then due to sickness and schedule changes, none of the other kids came over Thursday or Friday either. That made it a quiet week here and we got our schoolwork done quicker, however the boys really missed having friends to play with!

The weekend was also weird for us. Friday night the boys were finally able to get together with their friends to play Dungeons and Dragons. They had a great time playing and are nearly done their current quest! They also enjoyed homemade brownies from one of the other moms. Then on Saturday after Zak went to bowling, we did our work for the weekend. We had plans to have a fun day on Sunday so we wanted to get our work done early. However we decided not to go out on Sunday and honestly felt off the whole weekend. We decided that from now on, we will only have "fun" days on Saturdays and work on Sundays, it just works better for our family. 

Here's how I did on my goals this week.

Working on Myself:

• Lose 50 pounds by exercising 5 days each week and walking at least 400 miles this year - I did weigh in this week, and was happy to see that over the past 2 weeks of not really focusing on this, I only gained 2.5 pounds. While I wish I was going in the other directions, I'm glad that gain wasn't bigger. I am having a hard time refocusing on this goal, but I will do it! I only walked about 5 miles this week for a total of 55 miles so far this year. It was just so cold and icy this week, it was really hard to get out and get moving. I will refocus on this soon too!!
• Read 15 books for fun - I didn't finish any books this week, but I read about 50% more of "Christmas Shopaholic" and only have about 20% left in the book. It's due back on Wednesday so I will finish it this week for sure!
• Write Scripture(s) every day this year - I have done this all 52 days so far this year. I'm really enjoying this practice so far this year.
• Attend 12 Zumba jam sessions to improve my teaching skills - I attended 1 jam in January and am registered for one in March. I decided not to do a February one since I'm not teaching right now. Hopefully I can make it up later this year.

Working on Family:

• Play all 152 of our board games together (either just Adrian and I or as a family) - We played 3 games this week for a total of 32 games so far this year. Adrian and I played Combo Fighter, City of the Big Shoulders and Coldwater Crown. We also played Fields of Arle this weekend that we borrowed from CABS. We weren't big fans of this game so we are returning it this weekend to get a new game to try. You can follow along on my thoughts on each game on this webpage. 
• Do 10 home improvement/reorganization projects - We finished up the play room this week and the boys did a great job of getting rid of a lot of things. We still need to finish up the game closet and figure out the decor in there, which we hope to do this weekend. We are still not done with the garage, it's just been too cold and snowy to deal with it! Again, we are hoping to finish it this weekend.
• Pay off all of our outstanding credit card debit and don't incur any additional debt - We paid off our new couches this month, and are down to only one credit card left to pay off. We incurred some new debt this month since AJ got his braces, but we hope to pay it off quicker than the 2 year payment plan we will be on.
• Watch 50 movies together and continue watching TV series together - This week we watched "Big Trouble in Little China" and have watched 6 movies so far this year. The boys really enjoyed this movie and are hoping for a sequel, ha! I could not get in to it, but I was very distracted that night so it may not have been the movie's fault. We also watched a bunch of "WandaVision" and we're nearly caught up on this series. It started weird, but we are loving it now!!
• Celebrate a holiday every day this year - This past week we celebrated Presidents Day, Fat Tuesday, Cabbage Day, Drink Wine Day, Tug of War Day, Love Your Pet Day and Sticky Bun Day. Below are a few picture highlights of our holidays. I'm also chronicling them on Facebook so if we aren't friends there, feel free to add me or follow along at #CelebrateEveryDay