January Recap

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As a point of accountability I want to update you on my progress on my January goals.

Starting a podcast
My motivation for my January goals here was to get back into the habit of posting online. I planned to:

• Write a 2 month blogging plan ✅
• I stuck with my plan for January and I have a few tweaks I want to make for next month
• Write at least 2 blog posts ✅
• I actually wrote 4 (if you count my two-parter separately)
• Do research on current favorite podcasting blogs ✅
• Some of my favorite podcasts are God Centered Mom and Journeywomen. I enjoyed looking through their blogs to get ideas on how to connect written content to a podcast.

Personal Growth

I focused on my non-fiction reading goal. I finished two which I'm pretty happy with. I also got a few fiction books in as well. Below are links to some of the books and also to some of my Goodreads reviews.

• Non-Fiction
• Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done (review)
• The Connected Child: Bring hope and healing to your adoptive family (review)

• Fiction
• An Uncertain Choice (I listened to the audiobook) (review)
• A Dance of Silver and Shadow: A Retelling of The Twelve Dancing Princesses (Beyond the Four Kingdoms) (Volume 1) (I read several books in this series thanks to Kindle Unlimited)
• Kids books (We read a ton of kids books but here are some of our favorites this month)

• Little Owl's Night
• Vegetables in Underwear
• Peppa's Windy Fall Day (Peppa Pig) (Peppa kind of annoys me, but the kids like it so I suffer in silence)
• Found: Psalm 23 (This is actually more my favorite than the kids, but it's the same writer and illustrator as for the Jesus Storybook Bible and I think it's beautiful)
• The Gospel Story Bible: Discovering Jesus in the Old and New Testaments (I'm including this one because we just finished it. I really like it, but it's a bit too old for our kids. We started the beginner's version recently and it's much more suited for our kids' ages).

Heath & Fitness

• I've been trying to find some more healthy meals our family will eat. Easier said than done when you've got a picky eater in the family (and no I'm not talking about any of our kids). I did manage to intentionally plan in at least a few healthy family meals each week.
• I'm trying to figure out an exercise program that I like. I'm thinking I'll go back to 21 Day Fix this month since I had success with that.

Home Improvement

• I pinned a pitiful number of garden pins which you can see here. Honestly, I'm pretty overwhelmed so any flower garden gurus who want to help a sister out are welcome over!

Connection

My main goal here was to get in one-on-one dates with each of the girls on (or near) the date they were born. It could be either Lee or I taking them, but I wanted them to have some special time with one of us.

• I took Callie to Panera. I told her she could have whatever she wanted for breakfast and the girl chose a sesame seed bagel. She then proceeded to eat half of my cinnamon swirl bagel. Next time I'll narrow her choices so she doesn't seem so overwhelmed.
• Lee took Sophia to the BCM and they played together. I hate to say it, but she's got some puppy-like tendencies in that she really loves to play fetch.
• Letty's is coming up tomorrow and we'll probably do breakfast and shoe shopping.

Other
My other goals involved saving money towards certain things and I was able to do that successfully this month.