Positively (Im)perfect

Written and published on October 29th, 2012. Archived to previous year.    A link-up of Goals and Accomplishments! Evaluation from  last week : Quality time was a tough one this past week! My husband and I had so much going on that we only got to sit down twice for some real one-on-one time. But I did succeed in finishing the party prep and costume making...along with a WHOLE  bunch of other stuff that serves as this week's motivation! ~MOTIVATION~  What did I accomplish last week? I packed more into this week than I think I have in a long, long time. So much, in fact, that I wasn't sure if I was going to get it all done. But I did...I wrote my final guest post over at  Ms.MommyHH6 , (which will be published later today), planned and pulled off a party, sewed a costume by hand, got together with friends and family nearly every day, went to three birthday celebrations in one weekend, made it through the emotional roller coaster of my son turning one (I never

Written and published on October 22nd, 2012. Archived to previous year.    A link-up of Goals and Accomplishments! Happy fall Monday to all! Here's my evaluation from  last week's goals : I actually did pretty well at "unplugging" this week; I deleted my shortcuts to Facebook and Pinterest and all of those other time-stealers, which helped immensely, and I limited (most) of my social media time to during naptime and after the kids were in bed. I still got distracted on occasion or prolonged some of my online visits, but it was a marked improvement from last week. And a vast improvement overall. And you know what? It's amazing how much I didn't miss it. And how much more seemed to be going on in my real life (and how much less was going on in my online life) when I wasn't as invested in my addiction. I still had to fight that nervous twitch of mindlessly checking my phone every other minute, but the deleted apps helped curb it. I felt like I finally

Written and published on October 15th, 2012. Archived to previous year.    A link-up of Goals and Accomplishments! Happy Monday! The fourth week of Make It Count Mondays, to be exact! It's exciting to realize that it's been nearly one month since the beginning of this deliberate goal-setting process. I'm not sure whether I've actually done much more than I was doing before, but everything I  have  done has been with a greater focus throughout each day. Which is half the battle (at least for me)! So cheers to becoming slightly more self-aware, and here's to an even better start to month two! Evaluation from  last week : My goal of reconnecting with friends and family went very well--we had some great conversations and "quality"  time together, even though we were all separated by a few thousand miles. But it made me realize how many other amazing people I haven't spent time connecting with lately, so I'll have to make more time for them! M

Written and published on October 8th, 2012. Archived to previous year.    Happy Holiday Monday! I hope that in addition to making today count, you have the pleasure of taking today off thanks to Columbus sailing the ocean blue 520 years ago! If you don't, have no fear...you can still make it count wherever you are!  Evaluation from last week:   Last week  my goals were to continue waking up with my alarm and finding times to contain social media interactions. I did...okay. Not horrible but not great, either. It's still tough to obey my alarm when I know that after I silence it, it will stay silent and not yell at me if I happen to head grumbling back towards the bed. I know going to bed earlier helps, but this wasn't a banner week for that, either. Regarding social media, I kept most of my writing and posting to naptime and post-bedtime so I would spend more time interacting with the kids throughout the day. But I still had a hard time breaking the insidious ha