A prayerful poem

I am attending a ladies Bible study and we are going thru a study on Titus 2.  The following poem was at the end of the lesson on having a sound mind.  I found it a wonderful challenge to my thinking and thought I would share.

Father I know that all my life
Is portioned out for me;
The changes that are sure to come,
I do not fear to see;
I ask thee for a present mind,
Intent on pleasing thee.

I would not have the restless will
That hurries to and fro,
Seeking for some great thing to do,
Or secret thing to know;
I would be treated as a child,
And guided where I go.

I ask thee for the daily strength,
To none that ask denied,
A mind to blend with outward life,
While keeping at thy side,
Content to fill a little space,
If thou be glorified.

In service which they will appoints
There are no bonds for me;
My secret heart is taught the truth
That makes thy children free;
A life of self-renouncing love
Is one of liberty.

~Anna L. Waring, 1850

Scripture memory challenge.

I recently started following Ann Voskamp's blog entitled A Holy Experience.  She is the author of "One Thousand Gifts".  I just love her style of writing; how honest and "real" her posts are.  She recently posted about how they are memorizing the first 14 verses of the Sermon on the mount.  I used to have notecards with scripture and would memorize verses but it's something I've gotten out of the habit of doing.  I thought this would be a perfect opportunity to jump back into memorizing Scripture. 

If you're interested, there is a link on the blog where you can download and print the verses on cards already to be bound into a little booklet to carry with you. 

Weekly update

1) Continue to drink ~60oz of water per day. - Did this
2) Continue to not eat after 8PM - Did this
3) Bake heart cinnamon rolls for Bible study on Wednesday - Did this
4) Take Gram shopping - Did this
5) Type up & print 8 recipes for recipe binder. (I have several loose recipes in the front of the binder that I need to type and put into the binder) - Did this
6) Work on making necklace (this is a new project as I've never made jewelry before) - Did this (I definitely need a lot more practice but it was a fun project)
7) Exercise 3 times this week. - Exercised 4 times for 30 min each
8) Continue writing 2 things in my gifts journal ( I downloaded the 1000 gifts app for my phone so I can record them while I'm out and about :) ).  - Did this on my phone, need to transfer them into my journal
9) Read one chapter in "The Power of a Positive mom" (I need to finish this book) - Didn't get to this.

Post 101!

I just noticed that my last post was my 100th post.  I thought of doing a giveaway but since I have a grand total of 6 followers and this is more a place for my own accountability I thought that might seem a bit ridiculous :)  So, for the 101th post I thought I'd share my new favorite timesaver tip.

Recently I find myself always wanting more time...more time to play with the kids, more time to make treats for my family, more time to spend on other things than cooking.  Don't get me wrong I love to cook & bake but there are times when I would love to just pull out a box mix.  We avoid box mixes and processed foods due to all the additives, etc.  and I figure why spend the extra money when I'm home and can make the same thing for much cheaper, and healthier. 

I found this post on Pinterest and was so excited.  Homemade mixes!!!  I had made homemade spice mixes before but hadn't thought about other mixes.  So far I've made a chocolate chip cookie mix and a pancake mix.  I'm planning to make many more mixes to have on hand.  They are quick to throw together and makes for a quick treat/meal.

A quick Google search will yield many, many different recipes for mixes.

Weekly Goals

Another Monday and another busy week ahead.  Here are my goals for the week.

1) Continue to drink ~60oz of water per day.
2) Continue to not eat after 8PM
3) Bake heart cinnamon rolls for Bible study on Wednesday
4) Take Gram shopping
5) Type up & print 8 recipes for recipe binder. (I have several loose recipes in the front of the binder that I need to type and put into the binder)
6) Work on making necklace (this is a new project as I've never made jewelry before)
7) Exercise 3 times this week.
8) Continue writing 2 things in my gifts journal ( I downloaded the 1000 gifts app for my phone so I can record them while I'm out and about :) ). 
9) Read one chapter in "The Power of a Positive mom" (I need to finish this book)

Better late than never, right?!

Despite the fact that I didn't post my weekly goals on Monday I did still have some.  Most of them were things that I didn't accomplish last week with one or two new ones.

- On drinking more water I decided to actually measure how much my water bottle holds.  It's actually 24oz not 20oz so I'm probably hitting close to the 60oz mark since I drink over two a day..just not the full 3 I was wanting originally.

- I finished the sewing projects/mending that I had in my pile (last weeks goal).

- I didn't make the goal with the gifts list but it has helped to have it more in the front of my mind.

- A new goal for this week was to not eat anything after 8PM.  I actually started this one on Tuesday and so far so good (I know, I know, it's only been two days but it's a start).

So, there you have it.  Hopefully I'll get a list up Monday although next week is very busy so I'm not sure how many added goals I'll have.

(and yes, I realize it's only Thursday but I highly doubt I'll have time to post tomorrow and still wanted some accountability for myself this week).

Weekly update

This week turned out to be a very busy week with lots of changes needing to be made.  So, I didn't do well on my goals.

- I drank about 40oz of water a day.  I think I'll stick to this for now, 60oz would be better but I'm happy with the 40oz for right now.  (it's usually more than 40oz but not quite the 60oz).

- I wrote in my gifts list most days but not all.  I still have a couple to write down since I was out and about when I thought of them.

- None of the sewing/mending got done because of other needs.

- The freezer meal did get made and delivered.