Not enough hours in the day

There are simply not enough hours in the day...
The past two weeks have been a whirlwind.  I have been at work/out of the house an average of 11 hours per week day, one night I was at the office until after 9PM waiting on a file to be completed so that I could start a process that takes around 4 hours to run without delaying anyone else's work the next day.
I have continued on my goals and am making good headway.  I have our Kitchen complete and our Pantry (thanks hubby!) and our living room from the A Bowl Full of Lemons Home Organization Challenge.  I am starting our dining room this week.
My bible writing is going well, I am in the begat's section of Genesis which is a bit tiresome but I am making headway towards Noah.
I have continued eating clean and am making progress on my Advocare 24 day challenge.   This weekend I went to Cincinnati for Advonation and learned a lot, I stayed on plan throughout my roadtrip.   I have also decided to start working harder towards my goals and am going to step up my game.
Stay the course, push through and make time and you can achieve your goals.

Priorities

I mentioned yesterday that I am currently working on writing the bible.

The inspiration for this task came from my cousin and her husband.   They are currently working on writing the bible with their daughter as part of their home schooling program.  I thought the idea sounded amazing and wanted to join in the fun!   What a better way to really absorb the word of God than to write it as you read?

There are countless studies about taking notes with a pen and paper verses a lap top and study methods where you simply rewrite your notes.  So I figured the same must be true with the bible as well!

I started the project a few months ago and quickly lost my steam.   But my husband and I are currently going through the process of being confirmed in the Catholic Church (another story for another time) and I thought that I would take advantage of this chance to start fresh using one of the translations approved by the Roman Catholic Church rather than my trusty, falling apart, NIV study bible.

I am actually really excited about this and am kind of geeking out.  I am committing 15 minutes per day to the project and if I miss a day it's not a big deal, I will simply make up the time the following day.  I am holding myself accountable and making sure my cumulative time for a week is at least 1:45 so that I don't get too far behind and decide to do something crazy like spend 6 hours in one day making up for 3 lost months.

Wish me luck!

Do all the things days 2 & 3

Yesterday got away from me and I forgot to update this morning so today's post will review my day yesterday and my day today and how I've faired in keeping up with my goals for the new year.  

Yesterday - Out of bed around 7:30 AM
Spent a couple of hours working in the kitchen.  Cooked meatballs for dinner for Monday & Tuesday Night and prepared a meatloaf that is now ready to throw in the oven for dinner Thursday & Friday.
Had leftovers for lunch around noon(ish)
Spent some quality time with my deal sweet husband
Did a 24 minute workout
Wrote a blog post
Spent about an hour researching community issues for the Junior League community impact development committee.
Then after dinner I took a quick shower and headed to a friends house to watch the Bachelor premier around 7:00.
You will notice I completely spaced and failed to make time for my daily bible writing (have I mentioned my daily devotional is including writing the bible for 15 minutes per day?) Don't worry I made it up today!

Today--
Since I was out late last night (Yes, 10:30 is late!) I turned off my work out alarm and decided to enjoy the extra hour of sleep.   Despite that I was out the door and headed to work at 7:00.  I took a 15 minute lunch break and somehow miraculously made it out of the office around 5:15, getting home just before 6:00.
At 6:15 I headed back out the door for a 30 minute run(ish) and rewarded myself when I got home with my yummy turkey meatball leftovers from last night and a popsicle made from Advocare Rehydrate (Key Lime Cherry YUMMY!!!)
From 7:00 - 8:00 I watched a couple of videos about human trafficking for my Junior League project and drafted a few member education Facebook posts to be uploaded later this week.  
From 8:00-8:30 I worked on my bible writing
at 8:30 I sat down to type this blog post and as soon as I am done I will be heading upstairs for a shower and to get my clothes laid out for tomorrow.
Assuming there is time after my shower I will probably spend 15-20 minutes working on embroidering the blanket I am making for my dear sweet nephew who was born over our Christmas vacation.   I have it about 75% complete but still have a few letter blocks left to finish before I bind the quilt and get to break out the new sewing machine my mom generously bought me for Christmas. I promise to upload a picture when I get it complete my hope is to have it done and in the mail to my sister in law before Valentines Day.

My plans for the rest of the week look a lot like my day today, only with possible longer work days (hopefully I stay as productive as I was today!) and rotating in a couple of hours finishing up the kitchen (all that is left is my spice cabinet and under the sink) in place of my Junior League work.

I hope to move to the next room on the A Bowl Full of Lemons Home Organization Challenge on Saturday.   Which is the dining room.  Ours is in pretty good shape but I know our "bar" area needs a good going through and my china cabinet would benefit from being wiped down so I anticipate being able to finish it this weekend easily which will put me two weeks ahead (thank God, because I'm going to need it if I'm going to be able to tackle our master closets!!!)

Advocare 2017 All-In Challenge

With the mindset of holding myself accountable I want to post regular updates about our 2017 Advocare goals.   

As is pretty much the norm in this household we are participating in the All-In 24 day challenge.  This year I have two friends who are joining us in the challenge and I'm really excited about the added accountability/responsibility that I will feel cheering these two through their challenges.  

I am taking a road trip to Cincinnati during the challenge but it is for an Advocare event so I think temptation will be limited.   

These are my goals for 2017:

1-tone up (AKA #absorababy2017) I told a friend that my health goal for 2017 was to get abs, or a baby, or both...She found it hilarious and told me that #absorababy should be my mantra for the year...and I kind of agree but given the limitation that I put on sharing our infertility journey on Facebook I'm going to pass on the actual hashtag...but it is my goal (because lets get real, how many women have 6 packs at 6 months pregnant....) 

2-help hubby reach his fitness goals

3-Help as many friends as possible reach their health goals...Reach out to at least 4 people per month/1 per week.

Wish me luck!!!

Do all the things - day 1

As promised here is my recap of how I spent my day yesterday.  Not going to lie--I got a migraine at the New Years Eve shin-dig and barely made it to midnight, by the time we got home I had to take real pain meds so we did sleep in and skip Mass.   It was a necessary thing though as I was beyond in pain and still had a pretty bad migraine when I woke up, though the nausea and dizziness had passed by morning.

soo--
10AM- out of bed, took migraine medicine, drank about 16 ounces of h2o and started my day
Made breakfast (grilled cheese!)
Started the corned beef cooking for our afternoon meal

11AM (ish)
Started A Bowl Full of Lemons Home Organization Challenge (yes a week early, that's how you get shit done, you do them when you have time off of work)
I started on the Kitchen and when Hubby saw what I was doing he attacked our pantry.   The pantry is now 100% complete and I have 4 cabinets left in the kitchen that I will be completing today.

2PM (ish)
Ate corned beef (YUMMY!!!) and did meal prep for the week.   Put together grocery list

Went grocery shopping

6PM (ish)
Headache was starting to ramp back up so I decided to call it a day on the Kitchen
Got home from grocery store, put away groceries, finished meal prep for the week
Watched Rock of Ages

9PM (ish)
Daily bible devotional stuff

10PM
In bed

SO what does this mean?
1- week 2 of the 14 week challenge is done before it started
2-week 1 of the 14 week challenge is 50% complete (hoping to finish it today)
3-Meal prep for the week is done

All in one roughly 8 hours, while doing other stuff.  Yes my husband helped, but how else can two people who work roughly 40-60 hours per week have a functioning household unless they also share household duties???