My lovely friend, Jonelle, who is full of wisdom and such had such a great idea, "Have a theme for the year instead of resolutions."
I have never been a big fan of New Year's Resolutions. I don't think you need to start a new year to set goals. You should just make a goal when you want to make a goal!
My "theme" this year is
"Creating a Testimony of Motherhood"
These are my motivators.I am having my 4th baby in a few months and my belief in motherhood has grown with each baby, but I really want to have a complete love and understanding for my role as a woman. I am in the beginning of mothering years. I have only been a mom for 6 nearly 7 years. I have a lot to learn! I am going to complete one of these goals each month and in six months, do them again.
January
Read an article a day about motherhood from lds.org. Reflect on it as much as possible with my crazy kids running around.=)
February
Spend 30 minutes of personal time each day with each child. I usually can accomplish this because my kid's schedules are staggered, but not on a daily basis. We all hang out a lot together, but I really want to do this before the baby comes.
March
Teach the kids one new job each week. They are at a prime age for cleaning and I am going to take advantage of that!
April
Do a thought out Family Home Evening. Really, we do FHE every week, but sometimes it is pretty lame. The kids leanr more when I put more into it. I have also been having the kids help plan them. Makes it more fun (and funny) for everyone.
May
Do a devotional once a day. Either read an article from The Friend or watch a message on LDS.org.
June
Try to stop micromanaging! This is really one of my worst faults as a mom. That is why it is at the end. I am hoping the things I learn in the previous five months, will help me with this!
July-December, start over again.
Any ideas for me on monthly activities? I kind of came up with this on a whim this morning to keep me focused on my "theme". What is your theme?
6 comments:
Great goals! I need to be better at this too. Especially the cleaning one. It's so much easier to do it myself, sometimes I forgot that more important than having a clean house, the purpose in all of this is to teach them. Thanks for the inspiration! :) by the way, I think you're a fantastic Mom!
I love your theme! It's awesome. And your kids are darling--they should be great motivators. Thanks for your kind note on my post at Junkintheirtrunk. If you like the writing part of it, I just started another blog of my own to focus more on that. Check it out at www.joyinthemoments.com. Good luck with your theme.
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Hi Heather. I'm glad you enjoyed my article and I appreciate your comment on my blog. We've got 4 now too. It's a lot of fun and a lot of crazy too.
Thank you for dropping by my blog and giving me a little literary encouragement. :)
I love your 2012 theme. It's something I feel passionate about as it's a goal/discovery I've been working on for several years and my testimony has really been strengthened.
A really good motherhood book I think you would enjoy: Mitten Strings from God. I want to say the author is Katrina Kennison - or something close to that. (Just trying to remember from the top of my head.... I just checked it out from the library when I read it; I don't have my own copy.) After reading that, I remember thinking if I had the money, I would buy a copy for myself and every one of my mom friends. :)
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