Ready, Set, ...............

Well tomorrow I start my life improvement plan. I have put together some daily, weekly and monthly goals for the next 365 days and then I will reevaluate my goals and progress from there. So here are the goals I will be working on this month.

Daily Goals

• Record food/drink intake using the sparkpeople.com app
• Eat healthier not just less
• Blog about experience
• Read scriptures set out in 1 year plan
• Set aside 1 hour a day to work with Jahvar on school work
• Set aside 30 minutes a day to introduce Lillee to new things
• Set aside 30 minutes a day to read with Owen

Weekly Goals

• Weigh In each sunday using the sparkpeople.com app
• Loss 5lbs per week or an average of 5lbs a week at the end of the month
• Walk 3-5 times per week
• Try atleast 1 new healthy recipe each week
• On weeks the girls are here set aside individual time with each of them
• Set aside time with my sisters

Monthly Goals

• Lose 20lbs in May(this is possible for me bcause I am extremely overweight and will lose fast at first. I do not recommend this goal for everyone)
• Participate in the 40 Days of Prayer
• Help Jahvar accompish writting his first name withotu tracing

Flowers, tomatoes and cookies

Today we went on Jahvar's last field trip to Melerba's Farm in Norwich, Ct. It was fun for the kids to play in the green houses and see all the flowers! Then we got to see the very special greenhouse which houses the greenhouse tomato plants which were just tiny sprouts but by the end of may will be 8th tall and produce huge tomatoes. Then the kids got to plant baby tomatoes and marigolds to bring home! So now I have to figure out how to plant them very soon.












Then this afternoon I made a few dozen cookies for the Tag and Bake Sale at a local church. Proceeds of the event are going to the youth group for a missions trip.


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May 1st

I have come to the realization that my weight is truly a bigger issue then just being overweight. Being overweight prevents me from doing a lot of things that I would love to do. It prevents me from being who God created me to be.

So, on May 1st I am starting a one year life improvement plan! I will have goals set out to accomplish on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. I will soon be posting my goals for the month of May. You are all welcome to follow along with my plan or create your own personalized plan to help you achieve your own goals.

I want to stress that although my weight was a huge motivation for this new adventure this is not a diet plan. It is a life improvement plan which is a combination of physical, emotional and spiritual changes.


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Time is flying

April 1st, today marks 3 years since my grandmother went to be with the Lord. It seems like just yesterday. I know she would have loved to see her little namesake Lillee-Anna Grace but I know some day we will all be sitting at the throne of God singing His praises. She was an amazing women who had a heart of gold and she is truly missed by us all. Not a day goes by that her absence isn't felt in our family.

The month of March seemed to fly by and here we are in April! Jahvar only has a month left of school, he graduates Head Start on May 6th. This is big for me because that means he will be going into Kindergarten next year and I won't be able to go to school with him anymore. He will be fine but I will be a mess. It seems so unnatural to me to leave my small child in the care of an absolute stranger who also has to look after about 20 other kids.  The more I think about it the more I am thinking about home schooling. I know there are pros and cons to both home schooling and public schooling I just need to sit down weigh out my options and pray about it. I don't want to make a decision based on my fears of what could happen.

This week was full of doctors and dentist appointments for the kids and I. I am a teeth brushing fanatic and I still needed fillings. I got 5 last week and have to go back next week to get a few more. I couldn't believe it. They didn't fill one on enough after drilling so after a few days of pain I had to go back so they could fix it and so far its been fine. I think tooth pain may be the worse pain of all.

This weekend we have our girls and Owen's granddaughter Inez. So its a FULL house right now and our trip to New York should be interesting Sunday. Speaking of which, I have been covering the Children's Church in New Rochelle and need to put something together for this week just in case I am needed again.