Weekly Reflections: Highs And Lows From This Week & Weekly Goals For The Week Ahead

Hello again, savvy savers! I wanted to end my weekly posts by bring the week to a close with a post about the reflections on this past week.

The highs for the week:

• Losing two pounds.
• Trying to expand my family!
• The ongoing repurposing of two rooms in my home, and the beginning of my chalk painting adventures.
• Continuing a daily devotional.
• Saving $78.00 on my groceries; this allowed me to only spend $34.56 on groceries this week!
• Using homeopathic pest remedies on my pets, helping them to stay healthy!
• Falling back in love with Netflix!
• Receiving words of encouragement online, from my Aunt Michelle!
• Being a co-host for the Merry Monday Linky Party! 
• My husband being able to spend time with his niece, nephews, and brother-in-law; those kids are one of the joys of his life.

My lows for the week:

• Several of my summer plants dying.
• The outdoors being so humid its hard for mopped floors to dry.
• My home never seems clean enough.
• Debating on whether or not to reconnect with my birth mother.
• Displacing my unhappiness over my own personal stress onto my husband, when he leaves messes, and though I apologize, I feel horrible afterwards.

My quote for the week:

In honor of what would have been his 96th birthday this week, “For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.” -Nelson Mandela

My inspiration for the week:

Being able to cut my home phone and cable, and while I am still finalizing he details of adding other forms of services, I have found that I can now watch more shows, and save $160.00 a month doing so!

My humor for the week:

My Great Pyrenees puppy (which is funny to say unto itself, as when she stands upright we are eye-to-eye with one another), Lady, has now learned to “give paw,” and this morning when I did not see her giving me her paw, she tapped my behind to get my attention! When I turned to see what she needed, she grinned at me, and in an attempt to give me both her paws, tumbled over grinning; sometimes the greatest joys in life come now from our children, but from our fuzziest children! Puppies are the best!

Goals For The Coming Week:

• Walk 1/2 mile daily.
• Finish my Motivated Moms Planner Chores daily.
• Read for 1 hour.
• Prepare three recipes and a freezer cooking session for the blog one day this week.
• Finish four upcycled projects to post to the blog.
• Finish all of my work-related projects ahead of time this week, in the evening, to free up my days more, by7 at least 1 hour.
• Start writing love letters for my husband, an educator, so when he starts classes back-up next month, he will have one daily with his lunch.
• get dressed and wear makeup daily, even when not working.
• Clean out my coupon binder, and start moving to my new method for organizing coupons and blog/videotape my progress for the blog.
• Sleep eight hours a night.

What are your goals for the week, I’d love to hear them below in a comment!

Happy Sunday!

Hello again, savvy savers! I wanted to end my weekly posts by bring the week to a close with a post about the reflections on this past week.

The highs for the week:

Losing two pounds.
Trying to expand my family!
The ongoing repurposing of two rooms in my home.
Continuing a daily devotional.

My lows for the week:

Preparing for a new life without being a caretaker to a family living with dementia, who has gone to live with relatives; seeing a relative seemingly disappear in plain sight in truly frustrating, and through continued prayer, I hope to make it through this difficult time. As I have been a working in the clerical field, as well as being a caretaker, it will be a transition to become a wife and family, without this role in tact as I have been a caretaker the entirety of my marriage. Though this is a needed transition, change can be difficult, travel expensive, and feelings are still the hardest casualty of all!

My quote for the week:

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his. -Unknown

My inspiration for the week:

Being able to recycle 90% of my weekly trash!

My humor for the week:

Catching myself singing out loud, being caught doing so, and not even caring!

Goals For The Coming Week:

Lose 1 pound, organize my insurance records, organize my will, walk the dogs 1/2 mile a day, have all blog assignments done on time, finish four product and boxed subscription reviews, oil paint for a few hours, take one hour for myself each night, and sleep 7 hours nightly!

Happy Sunday!