Goals for April and May 2022

Big Goals

Category 1. Learn how to draw my strength from God. Learn how to drink in His beauty,, His presence through worship,, through looking at Him. To see nothing without Him in the picture.

Its the only way I'm making it through this life.

Category 2. Spend more time with the kiddos. Because they won't be kiddos much longer. Savor the time. Enjoy *being with them.*

From babies to toddlers to teens in the blink of an eye.

Time with them, sacred, unrepeatable.

It's a precious gift, running like water in a river, unrepeatable, fleeting as the sunlight shimmering on that water.

Category 3. Family Adventures. Camping, hiking, waterfight.

Category 4. Share my now-ancient hobbies with the kids. (Gardening, painting, drawing, sewing, Leatherwork, etc)

Category 5. Make significant progress in homeschool. Because while overrated (see category 2.) education is somewhat important.

Category 6. Chores & cleaning. Because its hard to enjoy life when there are no clean spoons or clean underwear.

Category 7. Home and garden improvement.

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I will set a tangible goal(s) and a habit for each category, every 2 months.

For April & May 2022

Category 1. 

1. Really pray at family prayer time in the evenings.
2.  Pray at breakfast. Read them Bible at breakfast.
3. Put on worship music at 5pm, every day.

Category 2.

1. Rock and sing to the girls after prayertime, every night. One song for each girl.
   
2. For the littles, have reading time in the brown chair
3. Isaiah read me "Sword in the Tree" and "Lion to Guard us", and discuss it.
   
4. Teach Jenny and Keziah 2 new hairstyles
   

Category 3. 

Still recovering from childbirth. Try Saturday morning picnics in the park. 

1. Make family dinner a big deal. Ready ON the table at 6pm (start getting ready at 5pm, worship music!) 
2. Make singing hymns at family prayertime a big deal. 3 hymns a night. Have them sing. 
1. How great Thou Art
2. O the deep deep love of Jesus
3. Be Thou my Vision
   

Category 4. 

1. Sew 2 calico critter clothes for/with each girl over 2. (So 10 outfits)
2. Teach Isaiah how to use the lightboard. Draw elites, grunts, brutes, or spartans.

 Category 5. 

1. Have at least 1.5 hrs of MORNING homeschool time for the 3 big kids. 3 Rs.
2. Have daily time with M and S and A, working through the phonics book how to read.
3. For preschool: have M teach numbers/math, K teach letters/reading, and J teach Hebrew, and Isaiah teach history

Category 6. 

1. Praise them!!! Thatvthey will know YOU CAN MAKE THE WORLD BEAUTIFUL
2. Frequent After meals, and before dinner. 4x a day. 
3. CHEERFULLY with them.Wheat in a cows stomach. Try no guilt and no yelling. Go from kidbto kid, teaching them techniques. Gentle voice, giving my tips, always positive. 
   
4. PUAYA. Put away after your activity. Build habits: Tidy becomes their new baseline. Where they hang their coat up without thinking about it....
   

 Category 7. 

1. Set up the toyroom
2. Put bunk beds in the girls room
   
3. Shade structure for playset. 
4. 2 more Pakistani Mulberries shade trees, one more mulberry for circle of green. 
5. contact wallbuilders
6. Green the back wall.

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Ideas for June-July

Category 2: Hold a meeting with the 3 big ones where you field their questions before homeschool time----- 

Category 4: Start the Crafting Rotation, each kid a turn