Keeping Up With...2021 Goals (Weekly Recap 6/14 - 6/20)

This was a fairly busy summer week for us with people going in a lot of different directions. Adrian was back to work in the office for 3 days this week so a lot of the coordinating the boys schedule fell on me this week. I'm thankful we still had meals coming this week because I started the week wiped out from all of our fun last week. After lots of rest and naps the first few days of the week, I felt way better the second part of the week. I'm still trying to find the balance between recovering, doing what needs to be done and building my strength back up. It's a rough balance, but I think I'm doing pretty well so far!

The boys kept busy with their summer camps this week. Daniel did a YouTube video creation camp which was a little lower level than what he needed, but he still really enjoyed it. He learned how to use a new software to make his videos and learned about a couple of new things to enhance his videos. AJ did a video game design camp and learned a ton about making video games. He wants to keep using the (free) program to create more video games over the summer which is fine by me. Zak had a lighter week since his fishing camp was cancelled this week. He only had a doctor's appointment this week, but the next 2 weeks he's super busy. 

We were surprised Thursday night to hear that Adrian would have Friday off for Juneteenth. We enjoyed our three day weekend mixing in lots of board games, TV and fun with getting a bunch accomplished around the house. We finished up this week with a day date on Saturday. Adrian and I went to Coopers Hawk to use our monthly tasting and got lunch with our reward certificate that we earned. We had delicious tacos, flatbread and wine for like $10 - it was great! Then we ran a few errands before heading home for the day. Sunday was a quiet Father's Day with board games, TV and a quick trip to Graeter's, plus Adrian got to use his gift (a new grill) to make our dinner. All in all a great weekend!!

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

Working on Myself:

• Lose 50 20 pounds by exercising 5 days each week and walking at least 400 miles this year hitting 10,000 steps everyday -  I am not worrying about this goal for the month of June since I'm recovering. Since the doctor cleared me to walk more, I started wearing my Fitbit and got around 3,000 steps each day with Sunday being my highest day with 5,000 steps. My goal is to work back up to 10,000 by the end of this month so I'm ready to go for my vacation. I'll only be weighing in at the end of this month, I know I'm gaining weight, it is what it is.
• Read 15 20 books for fun - I finished "That Summer" this week, and it was really good! I didn't love the ending, I wanted more of a resolution, but I really enjoyed the whole story and how it was written. This was my 11th book of the year. This week I will be going back to "Gilead" which I read about half of the last time I had it from the library. I plan to finish it before it needs to be returned.
• Write Scripture(s) every day this year - I have done this all 171 days so far this year. I'm really enjoying this practice so far this year. For June I picked a plan focused on friendship since we are leaning heavily on our friends this month for help.
• Attend 12 6 Zumba jam sessions to improve my teaching skills - I'm pausing this goal at 2 for the year until August when I'm back to teaching.

Working on Family:

• Play all 152 of our board games together (either just Adrian and I or as a family) - We played 6 games this week since Adrian was off on Friday. We played our last version of Funko Versus, Jaws (twice), King of Tokyo (twice), Ice Cool and Imperial Assault as a couple and Love Letter as a family. We have played 85 of our games so far this year. We also played Caverna before we have to return it to CABS and Back to the Future because we still can't figure out how to win that as a 2 player game. You can follow along on my thoughts on each game on this webpage.
• Do 10 home improvement/reorganization projects - We started staining the fence this week and are about a quarter of the way done. Once again we had to postpone this somewhat since it was raining on and off all weekend. Thankfully next week looks better so we're hoping to finish it then.
• Pay off all of our outstanding credit card debit and don't incur any additional debt - We didn't incur anything this week and are paying the minimums on everything until we get back from (and pay for) our vacation next month.
• Watch 50 movies together and continue watching TV series together - We watched two movies this week, Mr Poppers Penguins (which was fantastic - we all loved it!) and Never Ending Story 2 (which the boys loved but the adults thought was kind of boring). Our total for the year so far is 25 movies. We also have a list of shows that we are watching as family this summer including Loki (awesome!), Lego Masters, Press Your Luck, The Cube and Holey Moley. We hope to keep up with those each week and watch 2 movies, but it may be tough.
• Celebrate a holiday every day this year - This week we celebrated 8 holidays since we doubled up on Friday. We celebrated Flag Day, Magna Carta Day, National Sea Turtle Day, Eat Your Veggies Day, Splurge Day, National Go Fishing Day, National Eat an Oreo Day and Fathers 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