Sunday, June 11, 2006

GOALS – so how did I do last week…remarkably well. I’m determined not to let my extra free time in the summer go to waste. Here are this week’s goals!

Fitness goals for the week:
I will get that ticker for bike riding up to 250 miles by Sat. evening.

I will continue with 8 minutes in the a.m. and add weights as needed.

I will continue to eat food that enshrines the temple rather than vandalizes the temple. {G}

I will hopefully see the weight loss ticker move up to 20 lbs by weigh in next Tuesday.

Education Goals for the week:
Continue on our summer schedule (math, language arts, science, read alouds).

We’ll continue reading *The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe* to all the children/young adults.

I’ll make sure that Jared and Jamin have time to WRITE on their books.

I need to begin pulling things together for the boys’ portfolio in earnest. My goal is to have this mailed off by the time they leave for their mission’s trip.

Gatekeeper goals for the week
We’ll continue to rework “Our Family’s 24 Ways”.

I’ll be on the lookout for teachable moments for both the children and myself.

I’ll pray for and with each child, daily.

I’ll look for meaningful ways (to THEM) to enter my children’s lives

I’ll continue to offer healthy food choices and not freak when the children choose to live on toast, apples and carrot sticks.

I’ll be sure to take time each day to help Mike unwind from his busy schedule.

I’ll dehydrate more apples for the office.

I’ll dehydrate pineapple.

I’ll bake bread.

I’ll deep clean our bedroom this week. If I have time I’ll do a second room.

I’ll continue my private Bible study…

I will lovingly and consistently DISCIPLE my children this week.

MISC Goals – what are these anyway???
I’ll remember to reschedule the boy’s dentist appointments.

I’ll read at least 2 chapters in *Age of Opportunity*.

I’ll work on a June/July issue of PWOC newsletter.

I’ll call Christian in Action about PWOC organizing the chapel to participate in their “back to school” drive.

I’ll find a good place in town for ladies to go for dessert after visiting the Lily gardens.

I’ll remember to go buy the produce the kids are asking for…this is a good thing….I’d best make a trip to HEB. LOL

PLAYING GOALS
We’ll make it to the pool at least three times this week.

We’ll try to have a play date with at least one group of family friends if we don’t make it to the pool.

I’ll be sure to have some cool movie here that all the kids will enjoy for Friday night.

I’ll continue to read fund books during my down time.

I’ll make one phone call to an out of town friend….I didn’t get this done this week but I did talk to my folks a couple of times. I’ll add a friend this week.
Hmmm….Misc Sunday evening thoughts….

We enjoyed “Remember the Titans”. The cheap DVD player works better than the new one on Netflix movies. I really don’t like DVDs and wish they hadn’t been invented.

I DID get the co-op order sent to Shop Natural – goodness that took a lot of thinking this time. I bought some Stevia to try in lemonaide….and I found Dr. Becker – a natural Dr. Pepper alternative….we’ll see if Mike enjoys it.

At chapel today one of the bigger boys was holding a soda can above Zander’s head. Zander was jumping, screaming and trying to get it. I noticed it said “organic” on the can and said….”um…that IS his soda”. The boy gave it back. It was empty and Zander proceeded to throw it away. The boy said he’d wanted to jump on it. Goodness…..boys. It cracked me up that a chaplain standing nearby said he noticed the can said organic and “knew it had to be yours”. That is an extremely funny statement to have heard about US….I guess we have made a lot of changes. LOL
Sunday -

BUSY! Today was the parish volunteers’ appreciation dinner. We volunteered to help Miss Ivey get tables set up and such during the 11:00 service. Things all came together, it looked very nice and it was a nice meal catered by Johnny Carinnos (hmmm that’s not quite right).

We ran the kids home after the dinner. Mike, Stacia and I ran out to the airport to meet our new Chaplain Candidate. He’ll be here for about a month. This is a program that lets folks in seminary go active duty during the summer and gain some “on the ground” training.

This evening was the Contemporary service. We continue to really enjoy our time in there. It went a bit long tonight – but it was fun.


VEGAN WARNING - THIS MAY MAKE YOU THINK LESS OF US!

I've always dreamed of having some free range chickens and collecting eggs every morning. I got a taste of this when we house-sat for Brad and Brenda several years ago. As we shared earlier, our quail has begun to lay eggs. She gives one every day. Jamin has been collecting them. I went to Food Network and found 21 recipes that used quail eggs; but they all seemed pretty high-falutin. Jamin decided to make a simple omlet. He said that they taste like chicken eggs. Of course, I had to try it. I took one bite. The logical part of my mind says "yep, like chicken egg". The psycho part of me left over from the balut eating days of the Philippines said "ARGH, GAG, GAG....I'm going to throw up"....but I didn't.

Here are some pictures of the chefs.