May Goals

Here are my goals for May. I will admit that I did not post any goals for March or April. I will also admit that the reason I didn't do it was just pure laziness on my part.  I didn't take time to make goals so I figured I wouldn't make time to complete them. But I am back on track with this months goals.

• Read one book. That should be simple enough since I already started one last month but didn't finish it so I will give myself this month to do it.  This is what I'm reading.

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• Exercise 4 times per week.  This should be easy. I have 2 dance classes and 1 Zumba class each week. Plus a commitment from a girlfriend of mine to start running Sunday afternoons. 

• Have Quiet Time with God daily.  I have this book by my recliner in the living room and try to read it in the morning while we wait for the bus to come pick up Isabella.  I think in order for it to be considered Quiet Time it actually needs to be quiet in the house so I may have to rework when I do this.I'd like to be able to start a devotional journal too. You know how I feel about journals.  Maybe during Ians naptime.  Thats really the only quiet time of the day. 

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• Make a mini album.  I want to get this book to get some inspiration. I have lots of photos and scrapbook supplies to use. I just need a little direction and inspiration.

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• Paint Isabellas desk. My mom has an old desk at her house that she is giving Isabella. It needs lots of TLC and I would like to get it done before school is out so she can use it this summer to do crafts or art projects.  

So there you have it.  All the things that I want to accomplish this month.  Let's hope and pray that I can cross everyone of them off of my list this time. 

I Don't Love Exercise

These are my new running shoes. I do love them. They are awesome.

Here I am about to cross the finsih line at Disneyland.  I did the 5k race there in 2009. I had a personal best time for a 5k this day. Finished in under 32 minutes. Yay me!!!

Here I am after I finished my 5k.  Miss. Bella competed in a race that day too.

I am not one of those people that LOVE exercise. I never have been and I don't think I ever will be. If I loved exercise then I would be an entirely different person physically.  I tried the gym thing and that didn't work out and I had to cancel my membership. I bought lots of exercise videos with the intention of working out everyday at home.  Well with a small child and a full time job at the time that didn't last either.  I've tried excercise classes but dropped those as well when my schedule began to get too busy with other obligations.  The only thing that has ever seemed to fit my schedule was running.  Mr.G became an avid runner about 3 years ago.  At the time I was pregnant with my son so the only physical activity I could continuing doing was my tap class.  So about a year later I decided that I would give running a try.  I started out slow, with walking being the main form of exercise and throwing in a few minutes of jogging until I could run a whole 2 miles without stopping.  I stuck with it and was able to run a couple of 5k races that year.  I was very proud of my accomplishments. Life became a little busy so the running was put on the backburner for awhile. So in an attempt to get myself into shape and loose some unwanted pounds I have decided to pull out the running shoes again.  I'm not an early riser so getting up at the crack of dawn is not an option for me.  I don't like to run at night when it's dark either (I'm a big scaredy cat, I think about all of the crazy things that could be out there waiting for me so I stay inside, don't judge me) and my days are filled with lots of activities (mostly checking my facebook and watching re-runs of Grey's Anatomy) so that leaves the weekends.  Since it's been months since I've hit the pavement I decided that I could ease back into running until daylight lasts a little longer and I can go in the evenings again.  So far so good. I've made myself go out in the blistering cold (okay so I'm exaggerating but it is cold) to run at least 2 miles.  I will admit that I do feel good when I get done and then I get motivated to make smarter food choices.  I have a goal to not only exercise at least 3 times a week but to lose a total of 30lbs. this year. I will keep you posted as I transform myself into a new hauter housewife. But don't expect me to post any of those before pictures of myself like they do on The Biggest Loser.  I don't want to frighten any of you away. 

January Goals

So I'm a little late posting my January goals but that doesn't mean that I haven't been working on them.  So here they are:

•  Exercise 3x per week (okay so I am going to admit that I am already failing this goal but it really has been too cold to get out there and run, I promise to do better the rest of the month)
• Read 1 book (I love reading so this is an easy goal to accomplish, right now I'm reading this)
• Try 1 new recipe (this should be easy to do too, I love cookbooks so I'm sure I can find something great to try)
• Work on my Project Life Album (just need to make sure I take lots of photos, get them printed and and put them in my album which is already assembled, it's the easiest scrapbook album ever)
• Blog 3x per week (again big FAIL so far but I promise to do better)

I will keep you posted as I progress on these goals. Putting them out there in blogland keeps me accountable to make sure I work on accomplishing them. There is no greater feeling than being able to cross something off of your list.  So there they are, in black and white for the whole world to see. Okay, so maybe the whole world doesn't read my blog but I know that at least a handful of people will see them and keep me accountable.

I hope you all have set some small goals for yourself to accomplish this month or even big ones that you will be working on all year.