Monday night was the night
I threw out all my main goals for this year, and just picked one main goal, To be a better mom. This is going to take a lot of prayer and personal reflection, but I feel committed.
So goodbye for now, knitting, practicing the piano, under-water basket weaving, reading informative books, running(phew), painting the pantry, etc
To off set this, for Family Night, each family member selected, or was *assigned small personal improvement goals.
Lauren: *Smile more, cry less.
James: *Wear clothes all day long.
Ellie: *Drinking a jug full of water everyday. Less fighting with James.
Myself: Break sugar addiction, eat healthy. No yelling at children
Barry: *Integrity: developing a higher level. Break sugar addiction
Progress:
Lauren is all smiles, mostly ;)
James is struggling, really struggling with his goal. I think he has no respect for it. Clothes are removed all most instantaneously
Ellie is doing awesome on her water drinking, and semi awesome on her no fighting.
Myself: Crazy craving sugar, it's a great combination with no yelling. Requires constant focus
Barry: Did the taxes like he said he would, and is doing well eating healthy.
This sugar thing is way hard.
by Tuesday afternoon I was emailing Barry to see if he had cracked yet.
Dear Barry,
How are you doing on our no dessert no candy goal??
I'm hanging on by my tail feathers.
Jill
When he came home he admitted he had ate a peppermint at work, but he had really needed one, he said. So I let it slide,
He kindly let the massive amount of jam I put on my corn bread for dinner slide too.
Wish us luck.
Progress is our Motto.
Progress, Progress Progress.
5 comments:
Good luck with your goals. If you need motivation to drink lots of water crystal light has all natural sweetener now that only has 3 grams of sugar in it. I like mine really diluted so one little packet lasts me for almost an entire half-gallon of water. Perhaps if James gets his goal down he can give Mo some pointers :P
I like to pick one goal at a time. As much as I need to kick the - let my children watch too much TV- habit, I decided to pick one goal - read my scriptures every day. Once I have that down then maybe I'll start on the other things. (Its amazing how that one goal helps me with the others anyway.)
GOOD LUCK! Giving up sugar is hard, hard, hard, but once you break the addition it's amazing how you can live just fine without it (I've done it twice) You are a strong woman, I know you can do it, I believe in you!
but.......it's really not worth it.
Sugar makes me happy and that makes me a lot easier to live with. :)
Jill you always make me laugh! Good luck with your new goals!
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