Smiling Mom

I’ve been falling short on my Makeo­ver Mon­day items this month. Things here have been a bit crazy.

Before I get to my goals for this week I must report on last week’s progress:

Plan and exe­cute the per­fect three year old party.

Com­plete!

I went to our local Michael’s and bought large sand buc­kets for $1 each. What a deal! My mom wrote each child’s name on his/her buc­ket using foam let­ters.. It tur­ned out super adorable.

For the craft the kids deco­ra­ted foam visors, also a Michael’s find. This was a big­ger hit than I expected.

The pinata was a blast and adults and chil­dren alike had a great time. It was a fan­tas­tic day!

This week’s goals:

1.  Finan­ces, yuck.

2. I sig­ned up to be part of the Blog Exchange. Mea­ning I need to post another blogger’s post on my site Mon­day mor­ning. Unfor­tu­na­tely I am going cam­ping with the family from Fri­day mor­ning until Mon­day eve­ning.  See the pro­blem? I need to figure out a way to get my Blog Exchange partner’s post up on my site on Mon­day morning.

3. This is our first cam­ping trip as a family. Hubby has taken BC on an overnight-er, but eClaire and I did not join them. We will be gone for a few days and need to figure out a way to camp without brin­ging our whole house.

So there you have it.

Thanks to MoodS­win­ging­Mommy for crea­ting Makeo­ver Mon­day. If you’d like to par­ti­ci­pate, drop on over to her site and see what this is all about.

OK, it’s Mon­day, right?  Seriously, it’s Wed­nes­day already?  What a week.  This is our last week of school before our glo­rious 6 week break.  I wor­ked Mon­day and Tues­day, so tech­ni­cally I’m done wor­king for this school year.  But today I met the kids at the park for the end of the year field trip, and on Fri­day I’ll go back into school for a final goodbye.  This week has been pac­ked with non stop movement.

Last week’s Makeo­ver Mon­day goal was to finish my report cards by Tues­day.  I did.  Thank good­ness.  It gave me more time to tie up all the other loose ends at school and at home.

This week’s goals all have to do with BC’s third birth­day party this coming Saturday.

• Pick Non­nie up from the air­port on Thurs­day night
• Clean, mop, clean some more
• Buy a pinata for Satur­day (BC: I want a PINATA!!!)
• Exe­cute the per­fect, inex­pen­sive, birth­day party for a three year old.  This inc­lu­des a bea­ding sta­tion, deco­rate inex­pen­sive Michael’s visors, collect candy from the pinata, food, and beer for the adults. 

I have to say that I’m about as exci­ted as BC is for this coming birth­day.  It should be fun!

Two words for this week.…

Report Cards. I want them to be done tomorrow.

Make sure to check out my reci­pes on the side bar.  If you have a good, easy, healthy recipe you’d like to sub­mit, I’ll review and then post it on this site.

Last week my goals included:

1.  Gym on W/F/Sat.  Less mind­less eating, you know the drill. -I went Satur­day.  It’s been a busy week.

2.  Finan­ces.  Get us back on track after my jaunt down to San Diego.-Done

3.  I want to start orga­ni­zing my pic­tu­res for the digi­tal photo albums I desire to create for the kids.-Please.  Not even started.

4.  Holy moly.  I just rea­li­zed that I have only two weeks left of school.  That means a TON of gra­ding needs to get done and report cards too…  OK, this is a prio­rity, and #3 will only get star­ted if I proc­ras­ti­nate on the report cards.-Gra­ding done, thanks to Hubby.  Report Cards will be this week.
Do you want to participate?

Write a Makeo­ver Mon­day post to share your goal for the week ahead. State whether or not you accom­plished your goal from the pre­vious week. Brag away! If you are wor­king towards a long-term goal, report on your progress.

3. Link your Makeo­ver Mon­day post to Moods­win­ging­mommy’s blog. 

4. Leave your link on her “Mr. Linky” 

 4. Spread the good karma by visi­ting other Makeo­ver Mon­day par­ti­ci­pants to encou­rage and con­gra­tu­late them on their own makeovers.

 5. Feel the love coming right back at you!

Thanks to Moods­win­ging­mommy for her Makeo­ver Mon­day idea.

Last weeks goals:

Sur­vive the plane trip home

Time with Hubby

Work out

1.  The kids were great on the plane, and I got home with not trou­ble.  Thank God!

2.  There has been mini­mal time to spend with Hubby.  One eve­ning we took the kids in the Bur­ley bike trai­ler and rode them to the park.  But with this unex­pec­tedly busy work week for Hubby, we’ve just kind of pas­sed in the wee hours of the mor­ning.  I’m hoping that next week will be better!

3.  Exer­cise.  I went twice, but could have gone three times.  I feel like a slug this week and haven’t weighed myself since I flew to San Diego.  But jud­ging by how my dis­ten­ded sto­mach  feels, I know that I need to cut back on the food and step up the exercise…

Which brings me to this week’s goals:

1.  Gym on W/F/Sat.  Less mind­less eating, you know the drill.

2.  Finan­ces.  Get us back on track after my jaunt down to San Diego.

3.  I want to start orga­ni­zing my pic­tu­res for the digi­tal photo albums I desire to create for the kids.

4.  Holy moly.  I just rea­li­zed that I have only two weeks left of school.  That means a TON of gra­ding needs to get done and report cards too…  Ok, this is a prio­rity, and #3 will only get star­ted if I proc­ras­ti­nate on the report cards.