A January Goal Update

*R*

I thought it would be fun to give an update of what I've been up to in the past week. :) It feels as though it's been longer than a week...so much has gone on!

I've been quite busy trying to get into a sort of "routine" this past week with all the challenges I've joined. Can't get behind now can we? ;D So I've been busy memorizing my verses, reading, and exercising! :) We also had two babysitting opportunities this week - little kiddo's are the best! We watched some at the ladies Friday morning Bible study at church which Jessica and I do 2 times a month - they are just precious! :) We got to hold a new baby and I got invited over for a "tea party" where we had "smoothies" with something that looked like chicken but was called a "potato" in them. ;D *giggles* And then Nathan and I had nursery Sunday with 2 little ones who kept us on our toes. The last 30 min. of the time I ended up rocking them in a large chair together with music on in the background...that's the only way we could keep the little boy out of mischief and the little girl from bursting into a sudden fit of tears. Once there though they were both as contented as could be. ;)

I've been doing a *LOT* of this....
I've completed almost 2 books already for this month's challenge. :)
I'm trying to make certain that I'm not trying to read too many books all at once right now. There are so many on my list that I want to be reading them all! HeHe!

...Quite a bit of this was done too.
Though I would like to work more on the blogging and things that need to be done and less of the browsing.
*cough*

And some of this, though not as much as I need to to get the projects completed that I were "supposed" to be Christmas gifts. *sigh* More of that will be done this week.

A little bit of note taking for my devotions. :)
You can find the best quotes from books! :D

Some of this too...
And some of the thinking and pondering as well. :D Lol!
"What *DO* I make for dinner?" ;)

*FAR* too much of this. :( Oops.
But I'm working on some plans for some projects so it does help having it all in one place where I can see what I'm looking at.
Just this week my sewing student sent me a link to this *fabulous* (mostly knitting) site! :D It's a Norwegian company with English translated patterns {so, "jumper" is really a "sweater" to us Americans. ;) *HeHe!* I thought that was neat!}
Some of the patterns are quite detailed with Norwegian designing (which I why I love it so) but there are some simple patterns and a few crochet patterns as far as I've seen that is (there may be more around...)

Ah, I so enjoy letter writing! :D
I've been doing a little of this too (Both letters and email)...now if I could only get them *to* the post office! :P

And *THIS* is what I've been spending a great deal of my time with. :)
Memorizing verses from 1 Peter!
Each week we have about 2-3 verses to memorize and I want to make sure I am constantly working on these...I have a lot of memory troubles when it comes to memorizing things. But, with a little perseverance and dedication it's coming along quite well. :D
I can't wait till I can say I've memorized an entire chapter! That seems almost too amazing to be possible in my mind right now. ;) That will be pretty exciting for me! But, that's a long ways off for now....just taking it one week at a time. :)

I'm still working on this one. :)
I joined some friends in trying to exercise more...and I've been working on eating healthier too.
It's been going well...the beginning is always hard to stop old habits and learn some new ones. ;)

Well, that's what I've been up to this week...and I'll be doing it again this week too most likely. :) What have you all been doing so far this year? How are you doing in your goals?

Have a great and blessed week!
~Rachel~