Keeping Up With...2021 Goals (Weekly Recap 7/5 - 7/11)

This was another split week for us. Adrian had Monday off for the holiday, so we spent most of the day doing all the work around the house that we blew off to have fun last weekend. Daniel had his last art camp of the summer which started on Monday morning so we were all up and moving early. The rest of the week was a pretty typical week. Adrian worked, Daniel went to camp, the boys played video games and helped me around the house and we all worked together to get ready for the trip. Adrian worked thru Thursday and then we switched into vacation mode. 

Friday we were up and moving pretty early. We all had haircut appointments and a few things to pick up to finish getting ready to leave. Then we spent the rest of the day packing up the van for our epic two week road trip to see America. We also spent a lot of time with Rocky since she won't be joining us. We got a ton done and were able to relax a little at the end of the day and finish catching up on all of our shows before we hit the road. Saturday morning we were up bright and early and hit the road for our vacation. I'll be doing a separate post about our vacation in the upcoming weeks, so I'll just move on to my goals update for this week.

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 again not worrying about this goal for the month of July since I'm still recovering and building my strength, plus we're gone on vacation for half the month. This past week I averaged about 7,000 steps each day. I'm trying to walk as much as I can to get my stamina up, but also being careful because I still get tired pretty quickly. 
• Read 15 20 books for fun - I started "The Outsiders" this week and read about half. I was hoping to finish it this week, but just didn't have time. I have this and 2 other books ready to read over vacation, hoping to get some time to read in the car each day.
• Write Scripture(s) every day this year - I have done this all 192 days so far this year. I'm really enjoying this practice so far this year. For July I picked a plan focused on peace since we have 2 weeks in the car together and I feel like I might need some peace, ha!
• 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 didn't play any games this week, just too busy with vacation. We did pack 3 games that we hope to play over these two weeks in our downtime, we'll see if that happens or not. You can follow along on my thoughts on each game on this webpage.
• Do 10 home improvement/reorganization projects - We finished staining the fence this week! Adrian and the boys worked really hard to get this finished around busy schedules and horrible weather. This was our 5th project of the year that we completed! When we get home we'll be staining the play set and then figuring out what we're doing to finish out the year.
• 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 did watch any movies this week and instead binged on our TV shows that we have been watching all summer so we are totally caught up on those before we leave. We watched Loki (awesome!), Lego Masters, Press Your Luck, The Cube and Holey Moley. 
• Celebrate a holiday every day this year - This week we celebrated 8 holidays since we doubled up on Wednesday. We celebrated National Graham Cracker Day, National Fried Chicken Day, National Pasta Day, National Chocolate Day, National Freezer Pop Day, Don't Put All Your Eggs in One Basket, Don't Step on a Bee Day and National Essential Oil 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