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Weekly Wishes – Memories

Posted on November 18 by Jillian416 • 8 Comments

Happy Monday and Weekly Wishes – Memories

Weekly Wishes is a link-up started by Melyssa from The Nectar Collective. It is a place where you can post and share you wishes and goals for the week ahead on your blog, Facebook page, Twitter account, etc and then link it up on Melyssa’s blog. I LOVE doing this because it holds me accountable for the week ahead. I’ve shared my goals with the world (through my blog) and I know people will read and wonder whether I stuck to my goals. It definitely keeps me honest!

We had such a great weekend! I had decided at the end of last week that I wanted to go shopping to look for Christmas decorations for the house, but convincing Seamus that we needed to go to Christmas Tree Shops on a Saturday is quite the feat. Somehow I managed it, and thanks to Emmett’s early wake up call, we headed out early Saturday morning. Even as early as we got there, the place was packed and it was hard to maneuver through the holiday decoration displays with a cart and a toddler who wants to grab everything. Thankfully, all of the people held Emmett’s attention and we were able to avoid him pulling delicate ornaments off the shelves.

I ended up with a ton of loot and can’t wait to decorate! I’ll probably wait another week or two, I just wanted to make sure we got out to buy stuff before it was all picked over and there wasn’t anything nice left. I’ll share pictures of how everything looks, once I’ve decorated.

Sunday, Emmett was once again up early (5:30 to be exact), but because of that I was able to get a ton of stuff done and still have plenty of time for play with Emmett. We went grocery shopping early, I did a ton of laundry and then did some food prep for the week. We also read the same 3 books about a hundred times, repetition is where it’s at, right? It was a really amazing day and weekend, now I just need to get through the week so I can get to my next one.

This week’s Weekly Wishes theme is memories. I chose the above picture because this was the very first moment I got to hold my son, one of the best memories of my entire life. I had a c-section so I wasn’t able to hold him until after I had been sewn shut. They did bring him over to me while I was still on the table and I was able to whisper sweet things in his ear, but I wasn’t able to hold him until about 45 minutes later. It was the sweetest moment, just feeling his oh so soft skin against mine, absolute perfection.

This week was a big fail, and I even contemplated skipping this post, but if I ever want to get better at reaching my goals I can’t allow myself to skip. So without further ado…

My Weekly Wishes

My first goal last week was to do a load of laundry a night. I didn’t do a single load, until Sunday, I was super lazy and have no good excuse.

Next up was finishing my Everyday Happy class. I also didn’t work on this, but I did work on a lot of blog posts so I wasn’t just avoiding doing any extra work. There’s a slight positive here, I suppose.

Finally, I said I’d move my body and again I failed. I didn’t do a single thing other than a lone walk on Friday afternoon that was super short. Ugh! I’m so frustrated with myself.

This Week’s Goals:

Cut out all gluten from my breakfast. More to come on this in a future post, but I’d like to stick with good healthy proteins and fats.
Do one load of laundry a night. Yep, this is on the goal list again, when I stick to it, Sundays are easier.
Go on two walks. That’s it, two walks and I’ll be happy. I’m thinking of creating a list of rewards for every milestone I hit. I’ve done these before but never stick to them, I’ll either buy the reward before I’ve earned it or I’ll reach the milestone and never buy the reward. I’m going to give this some thought over the next week.

Alright those are my wishes for the week!

Be sure to stop on over and visit Melyssa and The Nectar Collective, and link-up!

Your turn!

What are your goals for the week?

What are your thoughts on rewards for every milestone? Have you ever done it and has it worked for you?

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Weekly Wishes – Hobbies

Posted on November 11 by Jillian416 • 4 Comments

Happy Weekly Wishes – Hobbies!

Weekly Wishes is a link-up started by Melyssa from The Nectar Collective. It is a place where you can post and share you wishes and goals for the week ahead on your blog, Facebook page, Twitter account, etc and then link it up on Melyssa’s blog. I LOVE doing this because it holds me accountable for the week ahead. I’ve shared my goals with the world (through my blog) and I know people will read and wonder whether I stuck to my goals. It definitely keeps me honest!

Happy Monday, all! We had a pretty good weekend in the Doodah household, you can read all about it here. I’m feeling really good this Monday morning, not dreading anything that this week might bring. I’m feeling positive and ready to take on the week’s ups and (of course) downs. Truly, I just hope there are more ups! 😉

This week’s Weekly Wishes theme is “hobbies.” Many of you may not know this, but I have an Etsy jewelry shop. Sadly I’ve had my shop closed since I went into the hospital to have Emmett, I just didn’t have the time to make anything new or to keep up with any orders that might have come in. And then around August, when I found that I had a little more time to work on items for my shop, I decided that I wanted to re-brand myself, which is where I am right now. I’m having a new Etsy banner designed for my shop and will then reopen! I’m super excited! Anyhoo – since this week’s theme is hobbies, I thought I’d share a picture of one of my favorite pairs of earrings that I created. I look forward to sharing the reopening of my store, once it happens.

And now, Weekly Wishes!

Last week I decided that I would keep it simple and only give myself two wishes. I think I was feeling overwhelmed with everything and giving myself so many goals to worry about completing was getting to me. In the end, giving myself two goals had a much better success rate!

My first goal from last week was to move my body. Admittedly, I did not do any super sweat sessions, but after reading Erika’s post last week talking about how it’s not so much how you move your body, but that you do it, I realized that even light walks with Emmett are good things. I realize with walks I likely won’t lose any weight but at least I’m doing something and not just being stagnant.

My second goal was to continue to do one load of laundry a night. Another success! Even with Emmett being sick I made sure to take a load of laundry down almost every night. This, once again, left me with only a few loads to do on Sunday, which leaves me more time with my two favorite guys!

This Week’s Goals:

Do one load of laundry a night. I’m sticking with it! It makes my life SO much better and I don’t want that to change.
Finish up Everyday Happy. Everyday Happy has ended but I’m still a bit behind, I want to finish off with a BANG!
Move my body! Another repeat from last week (and the week before and the week before), it’s a good one and a good one for me.

There you have it, my wishes for the week ahead.

Be sure to stop on over to The Nectar Collective and link-up!

Your turn!

What have you accomplished over the last week?

Do you have any new goals for the week ahead?

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Weekly Wishes – Warmth

Posted on November 4 by Jillian416 • 8 Comments

Happy Weekly Wishes – Warmth!

Weekly Wishes is a link-up started by Melyssa from The Nectar Collective. It is a place where you can post and share you wishes and goals for the week ahead on your blog, Facebook page, Twitter account, etc and then link it up on Melyssa’s blog. I LOVE doing this because it holds me accountable for the week ahead. I’ve shared my goals with the world (through my blog) and I know people will read and wonder whether I stuck to my goals. It definitely keeps me honest!

It’s Monday again, can you believe that? It’s so cliche, but I really can’t. It literally seems like I had just woken up on Friday and now it’s Monday again. Oh well, such is life!

We had a really awesome weekend!

Saturday, we had big BIG plans to get Emmett’s haircut. A few weeks back when I had been anticipating his haircut I had done some research on local places that cut children’s hair. I wanted someone that was familiar with how a toddler is and the fact that they don’t sit still. When you’re working with scissors, going to a salon that has only worked on adults or older children, just wouldn’t work. We ended up at Kiddie Cuts & More and the stylist was fantastic! She did a really fantastic job, with Emmett and his hair.

Sunday was filled with chores and family time! Emmett decided he wanted to get up early (because of daylight savings time) and was up at 4:30. Thankfully he dozed off for another 30 minutes or so and then woke up for good around 5. Our bodies thought it was 6, but it was till painful on a Sunday. The only positive of getting up that early, was that I got a ton of stuff done, all of my weekly chores were complete by the time 5 o’clock rolled around and that’s a beautiful thing! Since chores were done early, Emmett and I got to go out on a nice chilly walk to Starbucks for my first red cup! My husband thinks I’m silly because I get so excited for a cardboard cup, but I really truly love red cup season. 🙂

The theme this week for Weekly Wishes is warmth. There a million pictures I could have chosen that showed or signified warmth to me, but I went with my coffee from yesterday. I am a lover of Starbucks, through and through, their coffee just makes me happy. It has the ability to warm me from within as I take those first few sips of hot coffee. Mmmm… You’ll almost always find me drinking a Venti Americano with 2 pumps of vanilla and a splash of milk. There a few other sweeter drinks that I like from Starbucks, but I’ll usually avoid those except for on special occasions, because of the calorie count on all of them.

Now onto this week’s Weekly Wishes – Warmth

Fair warning – I did not do well with my wishes for the week. I just fell flat…

The first goal from last week was to finish my home ‘to-do’ list. I still haven’t completed it and I have absolutely zero excuses as for why, I just didn’t do it. Ugh.

Next up, was getting back into my class Everyday Happy. Once again, I just fell flat here. I am ready, willing and able to work on it, but it always seems to come secondary to one of the other many things that I “need” to complete. I need to stop that and make it a priority. I really liked where the class was going and was learning a lot about myself through it.

Of course, I had workout as one of my goals. And sadly, I once again did not complete this goal. I walked a couple of times but nothing more. I don’t even have an excuse.

I had planned to do a load of wash every night. I didn’t fail completely on this one. I did laundry twice during the week which still knocked down the amount of loads I needed to do on Sunday. I’m pleased with that!

Finally, I planned to work on some of the draft blog posts I have. I didn’t get to this one, I just didn’t have time. Any time I was at my computer to blog, I was working on a post for the current day and unfortunately wasn’t able to get further ahead.

This week’s goals:

This week I’m keeping it simple, only two goals. I am honestly wondering if the reason that I am struggling so much with meeting the goals I make, is because I’m putting too much pressure on myself with too many goals. So we’ll try a lesser amount and see how that goes.

Move my body! I need to. My mood has been pretty great the last week, positive and not so much on the dark side, but I would absolutely still feel better if I broke a sweat. I’d like to move and sweat 4 times this week.
Do a load of laundry every night. This goal truly makes my life SO much easier and allows for much more family time on Sundays, when I only have to do 2 or 3 loads versus 7 or 8. Plus it’s not a difficult one. I come home, throw a load in right after work and then throw it in the drier after Emmett’s bath. I typically will fold it the next day when I go put the next load in. I have a pretty easy cycle, just need to stick with it.

Alrighty folks, that’s it for this week. Here’s hoping a smaller list will help make me feel more successful with my wishes and less like a failure.

Be sure to link-up with Melyssa and The Nectar Collective!

Your turn!

Have you set any goals for yourself for the week ahead?

How do you stick to those goals?

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Weekly Wishes – Selfie

Posted on October 28 by Jillian416 • 0 Comments

Happy Monday! Time for this week’s Weekly Wishes – Selfie!

Weekly Wishes is a link-up started by Melyssa from The Nectar Collective. It is a place where you can post and share you wishes and goals for the week ahead on your blog, Facebook page, Twitter account, etc and then link it up on Melyssa’s blog. I LOVE doing this because it holds me accountable for the week ahead. I’ve shared my goals with the world (through my blog) and I know people will read and wonder whether I stuck to my goals. It definitely keeps me honest!

Here I am again, awake super early on a Monday morning. My vacation is over and it’s time to go back to work after a pretty awesome week at home, with my two awesome dudes.

We had a really fantastic weekend! I ended up going down to visit my parents on Saturday, my mom and I took a ride out to this indoor craft show in Westfield, NY, called The Cross Roads Market. I was hoping to find some Christmas decorations to start getting things ready for that season, but there wasn’t much. Most people still had their Fall / Halloween stuff out. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not trying to rush the holidays, I’m the last person that would do that, but I just thought there would be more of a Christmas selection. Oh well! I did get some yummy Peanut Butter and Chocolate fudge from Fudge n Stuff, and learned something new from the stores owner, you should never put fudge in the refrigerator because it just gets dried out. I had NO idea! I think I’ve always put any fudge I’ve purchased directly into the fridge the second I got home, thinking it would keep it fresh. Wrong! Wendy recommended placing the fudge in a air-proof container and leaving directly on your counter. So far, so good, it’s some darn good fudge.

Sunday was a perfectly wonderful day at home. Emmett and I went grocery shopping early(ish) thinking we’d avoid the crowds but no such luck, it was packed at Wegmans. My theory is that people were trying to get everything done before the Bills game at 1 (where the Bills lost). Next time, I need to pay better attention to the Bills schedule before heading to the store. The rest of the day was spent, prepping food for the week, doing laundry, cleaning, and LOADS of family time. We gave Seamus’ parents a call after dinner and Emmett was being such a goofball, he just wouldn’t sit still, bouncing from one couch to another with a book, then a toy, then a book again. He was cracking us all up. I love that little Doodah!

This week’s Weekly Wishes theme is Selfie, Melyssa wants to see our faces. 🙂 Honestly, I don’t take a lot (none, really) of selfies so I had to go with the best I had, an up close picture of myself with Emmett. I think when you become a mommy, your pictures are no longer of just you, but of you and your babe. I’m alright with this! 😀

Time for my Weekly Wishes – Selfie!

My first goal from last week was to continue washing 1 load of laundry a night. Success! I am absolutely loving this goal, because it makes Sundays much more enjoyable. I’ve been doing a load every other night so that on Sundays I maybe have 3 to do, which consist of the towels, sheets and other items that aren’t clothes, instead of my previous 7 or 8.

Next up, was making a home “to do” list. This was also a success, but it’s not complete so I’m not ready to share. Once it’s totally done, I want to write a post on how I came up with everything and how I’m going to break it down into manageable steps.

I also said I’d workout at least 4 times. I did it, but it definitely wasn’t the high intensity that I need. I had one hard core workout and the rest were just walks. I shouldn’t complain, but I really need to remind myself of how great I felt after my workout on Monday, where I was sweating like a pig.

Finally, I set a goal to participate more in Everyday Happy. Sadly I failed on this one. I don’t think I even opened the website and I don’t even have a good reason why. I had plenty of time and the course is helping me, I just didn’t do it. Ugh!

This week’s goals:

Finish my home “to do” list and get to work on it and the blog post that comes with it.
Dive fully into Everyday Happy. I have so little downtime, that if I work on the class, I may have less blog posts, but I need to be alright with that. In the end, the class will benefit me AND the blog.
Wash a load of laundry each night. This has been going great and has made my weekends more enjoyable so I’m going to stick with it.
Workout. I need to do some hard workouts. Workouts where I’m really dripping sweat, at least 4 times.
Finally, go through my blog drafts and complete some of them. I have about 10 drafts (maybe more) started and just sitting there. I need to go through and finish them and get them posted. Most are really great ideas, they just need to be worked on.

Well, this week’s goals turned out to be similar to last week’s, but I’m alright with that. They were good goals and when completed will leave me feeling accomplished and more relaxed with life overall.

Those are my wishes for the week, be sure to visit Melyssa and link-up!

Your turn!

What are some of the things you’re working on this week?

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Weekly Wishes – Creativity

Posted on October 21 by Jillian416 • 5 Comments

Happy Weekly Wishes! This week’s theme is Creativity.

Weekly Wishes is a link-up started by Melyssa from The Nectar Collective. It is a place where you can post and share you wishes and goals for the week ahead on your blog, Facebook page, Twitter account, etc and then link it up on Melyssa’s blog. I LOVE doing this because it holds me accountable for the week ahead. I’ve shared my goals with the world (through my blog) and I know people will read and wonder whether I stuck to my goals. It definitely keeps me honest!

Happy Monday everyone!

This is a great Monday for me because I am on vacation. Woohoo! Seamus and I took the week off because our anniversary (our 2nd one) is tomorrow and we just wanted to have a relaxing and enjoyable stay-cation. We have a few things planned as a couple and then as a family and I’m excited about all of them. Don’t worry, I’ll be sure to share! 😉

This weekend was relatively unexciting, but we still had a nice time as a family. We had thought about going to the pumpkin patch, but the weather was just too iffy to get stuck in the middle of open fields and then have it downpour. We ended up just spending a lot of time at home, reading and playing with Emmett, which is definitely a wonderful thing since I never feel like I have enough time with him during the week.

I love just watching him play and then having him switch gears and bring a book over to read. He is so good at curling up in your lap and helping you turn the pages. This weekend, his favorite books were a set of flap books that my mom got him for his birthday. He’d bring the whole box of them over, choose which one he wanted to read, and then have us read through them while he opened the flaps. So much fun!

The theme for Weekly Wishes this week was creativity. I like pretending that I’m a good photographer and can take unique photos, even though I’m average, at best. Anyway, when we went to the apple farm to pick apples, I tried my hand at some creative apple shots, the one above is an example of one of my pictures.

And now, Weekly Wishes!

My first wish for the week was to do 1 load of laundry a night. I did it! I did laundry multiple times all week long leaving me only a few loads to do on Sunday afternoon. It felt so good to stay on top of things, I think I’ll keep this as one of my goals for the next week.

Ugh! I had a goal to make a home “to do” list and sadly, I didn’t do it again. I have no idea why I keep skipping this, it will make things so much easier if I have a list.

Finally I made a goal to workout, I did it! Wooohoo! I didn’t follow the schedule I shared last week, but I worked out 4 times and I was feeling fantastic. I am so pleased with the success of this goal.

This week’s Weekly Wishes

Continue to wash 1 load of laundry a night. This made my life so much easier through the week, to do just one load a night instead of 7 loads on Sunday. I’m going to stick with this goal
Make the home “to do” list. I keep saying I’m going to make it and then I don’t. I need to stop making excuses and just get it done. It will make my life easier, which will in turn keep me happy.
Workout. I need to keep the high intensity momentum of last week and keep working out. I felt so great all week, at peace and low stress, I’d like to keep that going.
Participate more in Everyday Happy. Last week got busy, so my class kind of fell off my plate. I need to get back into it and focus, so that I can actually become Everyday Happy.

Alrighty, those are my wishes for this week.

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Your turn!

What are some of your wishes for the week ahead?

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Weekly Wishes – Celebrate

Posted on October 14 by Jillian416 • 4 Comments

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It’s time to celebrate with Weekly Wishes!

Weekly Wishes is a link-up started by Melyssa from The Nectar Collective. It is a place where you can post and share you wishes and goals for the week ahead on your blog, Facebook page, Twitter account, etc and then link it up on Melyssa’s blog. I LOVE doing this because it holds me accountable for the week ahead. I’ve shared my goals with the world (through my blog) and I know people will read and wonder whether I stuck to my goals. It definitely keeps me honest!

It has been another perfect Fall weekend in Buffalo, the weather was just beautiful, sunny and warm. Who could ask for more!? We had a pretty laid back, but awesome weekend. Saturday, Emmett and I made our weekly trip to the Elmwood-Bidwell Farmers Market for fruits, veggies and cheese. I got a brand new cheese flavor from First Light Farm & Creamery, it is amazing and I’ll be sharing what it is, later in the week.

We did almost have a small catastrophe, Emmett carries around this small stuffed monkey that Seamus and I bought him when he was brand new, he loves that thing and it goes with us everywhere. Well, it was in the buggy with him and at some point, without me realizing it, he threw it out. When I finally noticed it was gone, I had no idea where he’d dropped it or how long ago it had been. I had only gotten through a couple vendors before I had to turn around retrace our steps. In my head I’m running through how we’d find something similar for Emmett to hold (I mean, he sleeps with this thing and demands it before bed), when I thankfully saw it lying on the ground right on our street, completely unharmed. Phew!! Crisis averted!

Sunday was a day at home, spent tidying up around the house. I did about 7 loads of laundry because I always do everything on Sunday afternoons, we also went grocery shopping and then watched some football. The perfect Fall family day!

This week’s Weekly Wishes theme is celebrate. I chose the picture above because one of the most fun days recently, was the day we celebrated Emmett’s first birthday. We did have a party for Emmett and that was a lot of fun, but we held that a few weeks after his actual birth date, the picture above is from the actual day of birth. We had a really wonderful time that day. Seamus and I both took off from work and spent the day celebrating with Emmett. We did things that interested a 1 year old, not things that interested us. It was such a special day, and when the time of his birth rolled around, I made sure to spend a moment sharing what we had experienced at that very moment. The moment, Emmett took his first breath and made his first cry. Music to my ears! I plan on doing this yearly with him, for as long as he’ll allow it. 🙂

Back to my Weekly Wishes!

My first wish from last week was to continue to be an active participant in the Everyday Happy e-course. If you read my post yesterday, you can see that I am doing my very best to remain vested in this program. I want to be happy and I want to make an effort in that happening. So this goal is a COMPLETE success! Woohoo!

Next up was to create a “to-do” list of everything that needs to be done around the house. I failed this one, big time. 🙁 I seriously forgot that I had made this one of my goals. Grr! I’m irritated with myself for that. Guess that means I need to check-in with my Weekly Wishes post more frequently this week.

Finally, I gave myself a goal of working out 4 times and even made a schedule of what I should do on each day. This one is a partial fail, I did walk a few times with Emmett, but it was no where near the level of exertion I need to lose weight. And, now that I’m done nursing, I need to be more mindful or the weight that I lost before my wedding, will all come creeping back. Yikes!

And now for this week’s goals –

Do 1 load of laundry a night. I’m so sick of having 6 or 7 loads of laundry to do on Sundays because I was lazy and didn’t do any during the week. There’s no reason why I can’t come home from work and throw a load in the washer. This one will make my weekends less stressful, worrying about how I’m going to get everything done and still find time to relax.
Create that “to-do” list I mentioned last week. This will help with getting things done. If I have a list in front of me of tasks that need completion, when I find that I have 15 spare minutes, I can jump on one and get it checked off. Is there a better feeling than checking off an item on your to-do list?
WORKOUT! Yep, that deserves caps and it needs to happen this week. I’m sick of reporting any failures on this goal to you, so I need to hold myself accountable. I’m going to give the schedule I came up with last week a try. “Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, change clothes at work and come home and either do a wog or ride my bike, with Emmett. Wednesday, change clothes at work and ride my bike. Friday, off. Saturday and Sunday can be any form of cardio, walking, wogging, biking, just as long as I stay active.”

Okay, those my goals for the week. Help hold me accountable, folks!

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What do you have to celebrate this week? Share in the comments below!

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Weekly Wishes – #3

Posted on October 6 by Jillian416 • 8 Comments

I’m really excited for my Weekly Wishes link-up this week!

Weekly Wishes is a link-up started by Melyssa from The Nectar Collective. It is a place where you can post and share you wishes and goals for the week ahead on your blog, Facebook page, Twitter account, etc and then link it up on Melyssa’s blog. I LOVE doing this because it holds me accountable for the week ahead. I’ve shared my goals with the world (through my blog) and I know people will read and wonder whether I stuck to my goals. It definitely keeps me honest!

It’s Monday again and if you’ve been reading my blog for the past few weeks, you know that every Monday I share my wishes for the week ahead, but before we get into my wishes, let’s talk about the weekend, shall we?

Emmett allowed us to sleep in until 8:30, which felt like such a luxury since I’m usually awake by quarter to 5 every morning. Once awake, we all made breakfast, we each had something different because no one felt like the same thing. Well, Emmett may have liked what either of us were cooking but he had Sunflower butter toast, yogurt and a banana anyway. Saturdays we usually make a toaster pastry and watch Bob the Builder, sadly our cable was out because of the loss of power across Buffalo, so we skipped doing that in the morning. Instead, Emmett and I got dressed and headed to the Farmers Market for our weekly load of fruit and veggies.

Two things, if you’re in Buffalo and you like squash, now is the time to go to the Elmwood-Bidwell Farmers market! There were soooo many different varieties, stop in and check them out. Secondly, my favorite cheese guys, First Light Farm and Creamery, will be debuting 2 new Chevre flavors next week. I got a taste of one of them and OH MY GOODNESS was it out of this world! I cannot wait to buy some next week, you should do the same.

Okay, back to our weekend – after the farmers market and a nice nap (for Emmett), we went out for Linner (lunch + dinner). Seamus was feeling like a steak and I wanted a burger, we decided on Texas Roadhouse. We hadn’t been there before so before going we took a peek at the reviews and they were pretty good, but I was not impressed. Our food was was SO salty and just not good, Seamus did like his steak, so there’s that. Anyway, after dinner we headed to Blackman Homestead Farms to pick apples!!! I will share more about this (and the pictures) in another post, but it is important to note that Emmett was so so cute.

Alright, time for Weekly Wishes.

My first goal from last week was to workout 4 times. I can say that I did this, but it comes with a caveat, I didn’t workout hard. I took walks with Emmett. Yes, I realize those count, I’m moving, being active but I want to lose weight and gain muscle. I’m sadly not going to do that by simply taking walks. I need to at least up that to runs or wogs (walk + jog) even. Sorry to be such a downer.

Next up was my goal to take 20 minutes a day and just sit, this was a half success. Ha! I tried just sitting a few mornings in a row and it just wasn’t working for me. Admittedly, I probably could have tried longer, maybe it would have worked then, but I really value my mornings and the time I spend typically writing. What I have done instead, is when I’m rocking Emmett to sleep, I don’t pull out my phone, like I use to. I am using that time to feel myself holding him, feel his warmth and hear his soft breathing, it has done wonders for relaxing me. This is also why I chose the picture that I did, I love cuddling with that monster and it makes me so SO happy!

Finally, I said I wanted to fully involve myself in the Everyday Happy ecourse, I can say this was a complete success. I took the time to reflect on the lessons and journal about them as well. I’m really proud of this, since I admitted last week that I often half-ass things. I’m happy I’m becoming an active participant in MY life.

And now this week’s goals –

Continue being an active participant in MY life through the Everyday Happy eCourse. I did so well keeping up with my lessons and participating in the class that I want this to continue, putting it out there for the whole online world to see, definitely motivates me to do something about it.
Create a ‘to do’ list for our home and begin tackling some of those tasks. Our house is a mess, we have a 14 month old baby, of course it’s a mess. But there are some things, that even despite a baby we could tackle to make our house look better. I want to create a task list and get our house in tip top shape, when everything looks better I feel more at peace and able to focus in my environment.
Workout (at least) 4 Times by following this schedule: Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, change clothes at work and come home and either do a wog or ride my bike, with Emmett. Wednesday, change clothes at work and ride my bike. Friday, off. Saturday and Sunday can be any form of cardio, walking, wogging, biking, just as long as I stay active.

Those are my goals for this week, if you know me, please feel free to check-in. I welcome your encouragement!

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What are some of your Weekly Wishes for this week?

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