Weekly Snapshot

A quick look back at our week: 

We celebrated Darryl’s birthday. 

We played games at my moms

Took my brother to the airport. 

Josh and Nate enjoy hanging out with friends. 

Josh then continued to hang out with friends.  Nate is at winter retreat with another group of friends! 

Weekly Menu

 I'm a little bit in disbelief that February is done. February was a little tough due to illness but I am hoping that it is finally gone and we can move on into March all healthy!  It is time to get back to actually planning my menu instead of pulling it out of my brain HA!  I need to pull out my recipe file and plan some meals!!  

Friday - Nate is heading off to his third and final winter retreat with a friends church.  (Can you guess he LOVES camp!)  I’m guessing Darryl, Josh and I will grab something for dinner 

Saturday - we have a family birthday party with Darryl’s family 

Sunday - Turkey roast, potatoes, green beans and rolls 

Monday  - pot pies 

Tuesday - Tacos

Wednesday - youth group! 

Thursday - BBQ cups and fries

Joyful Weeks 4 and 5 - Our Co-Op

 We always start the same each week: 

1) This semester I am sharing a short devotional around the idea of why we memorize scripture.  I'm taking my thoughts from HERE.  There are 10 Biblical reasons to memorize scripture so I'm sharing one each week. 

2) We then do our Joyful Bucket.  Each student has to name one thing that brought them joy throughout the week.  Sometimes this is hard.  I try to help them understand that their item doesn't have to be a "thing" - something they did or experienced - but rather even something simple they saw that brought them true joy. They also get to chose something out of our treat bucket. 

3) We review our scripture memorization.  We spend the semester memorizing scripture that we then share at presentation night. 

What changes each week are our activities. 

Week 4 - This was our semester "Breakfast and Bingo" class!  It's the highlight of the class for sure.  Each semester I find a bingo board on Pinterest to use and print them off.  We start with breakfast where I supply sausage balls, muffins, donut holes, fruit, milk and juice.  Then we play bingo the rest of the hour!  

Week 5 - After fighting sickness in our house, I was not mentally prepared for planning our co-op HA!  So we had our first ever "game day".  Everyone could bring in board games and play with friends.  It went surprisingly well as in no one was left out and everyone played games the entire hour. 

Sometimes when planning a class, it is always good to have an "easy" idea for either a substitute or for weeks that just are busy! 

Crowder - Somebody Prayed (Official Lyric Video)

I really enjoy Crowder - especially since I've seen him in concert a few times.  He is such a great musical performer and just draws you in as he praises Jesus.  Hearing this takes me back to the concert Nate and I attended in the fall - such great memories!  

Our Weekly Snapshot

 Here's a look back at a few things from our week

I treated myself to a coffee on Wednesday thanks to a gift card!  Why did I treat myself? 

Well, because this was our best friend all week.  What is it?  One of our space heaters because our furnace went down on the weekend and we had to wait until Thursday for the part to come in! 

We picked my brother up from the airport and he treated us to a fabulous dinner! 

Weekly Menu

 Not only is my brother in town but this week includes Darryl's birthday!  So the menu is kind of sketchy as plans tend to change when family is in town.  It is more of a "suggestion" then a plan HA! 

Friday - dinner at my moms 

Saturday - It is Darryl's birthday!  Dinner will be at our house - whatever the birthday guy wants. 

Sunday - I'm guessing dinner at my mom's followed by games. 

Monday - Easy Cheeseburger soup and rolls

Tuesday - slow Cooker Steak and Potato casserole and green beans 

Wednesday - Back to normal with a youth group night

Thursday - one dish pork chops and potatoes 

February Goals

 

Even though I am posting this half way through the month, I actually did start these on February 1st!  Some of these will look familiar as they carried over or are just changed a little.  

Here are my February goals:

1. Follow the declutter 365 plan for February and do every task that applies to me. 
2. Follow Flylady weekly plan for decluttering then cleaning each room - 15 minutes at a time.  Since last month I only did one item each week my more specific goal this month is to accomplish at least 2 of the specific tasks each week. 
3. Pick a room cleaning - 15 minutes decluttering
1. Finish cleaning the bathroom (deep cleaning) as it was January's room. 
2. Begin the cleaning in the dining room.  I have some ideas to maybe rearrange a few things so we shall see if that happens! 
4. Spend 15-20 minutes a day cleaning the basement - this months goal is the laundry room side
5. Finish all of the odds and end in Josh's room (hang things, paint closet) 
6. Replace a board in Nate's bed that is broken. 
7. Replaced burned out lightbulbs inside and outside
8. Go on a date with Darryl
9. Read!  As many books as possible but at least the 2 for my book clubs and to read 6 books total! 
10. Do my daily Bible study, prayer journal and word study
11. Scrapbook 
1. Finish 2017 and 2018 
2. Scrapbook January 2025
3. Upload February's photos and order them.
4. Do virtual scrapbooking weekend
12. Co-Op
1. Plan Joyful weeks 5-8
2. Make Presentation Night signs
3. Work on my Joyful video.  
13. Practice my piano song until I can play it for offertory and then pick a new one; Practice a song with the family to do as special music. 
14. Update some seasonal items - St. Patrick's Day after Valentine's Day is done! 
15. Write my blogs each week
16. Celebrate Darryl's birthday 
17. Plan St. Patrick's Day
18. Plan March goals/activities by the end of February - Including one Family activity for the first quarter of the year!  
19. Finances - continue to work on tracking everything and limit spending
20. Computer clean -up - Go through every file on my computer and clean things out.