Here is this month’s quote:

I like doing these monthly posts as they will help me keep on track with my long-term goals.

I’m not sure how often I am going to blog about goals next year. This year, hardly anyone has joined up with me; so we’ll see!

Here’s how I did on November’s goals:

Personal goals:

• Do daily devotions. — Did better at the beginning of the month than at the end.
• Spend time studying our ladies Sunday School book.
• Set up dentist appointments for December for kids. Went and have to go again
• Get orthodontist paperwork for 2nd child transferred over to Florida. I have to get some consults done this month.
• Sign up for  Upward basketball for 3 of the kids. Went to the skills evaluation.
• Figure out Christmas party for school. Also start thinking about what I need to do for Christmas for family. I am working on this.
• Get family pictures taken for Christmas cards. Pictures will be this Tuesday
• Have at least one group of friends over to our house. We have had some people over.
• Walk/ride a bike 3 times a week. Only read bikes twice this month.

Blogging Goals:

• Spend 10 minutes on Pinterest 3 times a week. (Schedule pins for old seasonal posts.)
• Make 2 new recipes. I actually only did one new one, but I shared some great Thanksgiving recipe round-ups.

• Work on my menu bar one week.
• Get 2 review/giveaway posts done.
• Work on Social Media sponsored posts.
• Get 2 Scattered Saturdays posted. Only did one.
• Do Christmas blog hop post.
• Participate in Facebook group sharing threads 2 times a week.
• Get my views up to 20,000 a month. Still between 15,000 – 17,000 pageviews.

Here are a few of my favorite posts from this past month (Click on the pictures to visit the posts.) 

Here were a couple of my Thoughtful Thursday posts from the past month:

Here are December’s goals:

Personal goals:

• Do daily devotions.
• Spend time studying our ladies Sunday School book.
• Set up orthodontist consults.
• Finish getting ready for Christmas party at school. 
• Get family pictures taken for Christmas cards/send out cards.
• Mail out presents/get presents ready for family.
• Walk/ride a bike 2 times a week.
• Do Christmas programs/caroling, etc.

Blogging Goals:

• Spend 10 minutes on Pinterest 3 times a week. (Schedule pins for old seasonal posts.)
• Make 2 new recipes.
• Work on my menu bar one week.
• Get 1 review/giveaway done.
• Work on Social Media sponsored posts.
• Get 1 Scattered Saturday posted.
• Participate in Facebook group sharing threads 2 times a week.
• Get my views up to 20,000 a month.

What are your plans for December?

If you write about your goals, then please link up below! If you would like to be part of our blogging goals group, then you can ask to join the Facebook group HERE. A group of bloggers all provide the  link-up starting on the  last Friday of every month (some do it later in the month than that day), and it remains open most of the month!

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Here is this month’s quote:

I like doing these monthly posts as they will help me keep on track with my long-term goals.

Here’s how I did on October’s goals:

Personal goals:

• Do daily devotions. I did not do them every day.
• Spend time studying our ladies Sunday School book. I’ve kept up with the book so far, and I’m done teaching my lesson.
• Set up a doctor’s appointment for Joshua. We had our visit and have a visit scheduled with a specialist for this coming week.
• Set up dentist appointments for October for kids. I have to call back on Wednesday to get them an appointment in December.
• Look into Upward sports for the kids.  I have the forms filled out. I will send them in after Joshua’s doctor appointment.
• Make swim shorts for Karis and Kristi.
• Have at least one group of friends over to our house.

Blogging Goals:

• Work on 3 social media jobs to work on.  I had a busy blogging month!
• Spend 10 minutes on Pinterest 3 times a week. (Schedule pins for old seasonal posts.)
• Make 2 new recipes.

I shared these recipes:

• Work on my menu bar one week.
• Get 1 review/giveaway up.
• Get 2 Scattered Saturdays up. Didn’t have time for this. 🙁
• Do Thanksgiving blog hop post. This was the French Apple Pie recipe.
• Participate in Facebook group sharing threads 2 times a week. I did plenty of these threads with all of my sponsored posts/threads.
• Get my views up to 15,000 a month.My views have dropped off this week again. My views are doing great right now. I’ll have about 18,000 pageviews this month. Fall has been my best blogging season the past couple of years.

Here are a few more of my favorite posts from this past month (Click on the pictures to visit the posts.)

4 fun recipes for Halloween/fall

Free printable!

Here were some of the quotes from my Thoughtful Thursday posts:

Here are November’s goals:

Personal goals:

• Do daily devotions.
• Spend time studying our ladies Sunday School book.
• Set up dentist appointments for December for kids.
• Get orthodontist paperwork for 2nd child transferred over to Florida.
• Sign up for  Upward basketball for 3 of the kids.
• Figure out Christmas party for school. Also start thinking about what I need to do for Christmas for family.
• Get family pictures taken for Christmas cards.
• Have at least one group of friends over to our house.
• Walk/ride a bike 3 times a week.

Blogging Goals:

• Spend 10 minutes on Pinterest 3 times a week. (Schedule pins for old seasonal posts.)
• Make 2 new recipes.
• Work on my menu bar one week.
• Get 2 review/giveaway posts done.
• Work on Social Media sponsored posts.
• Get 2 Scattered Saturdays posted.
• Do Christmas blog hop post.
• Participate in Facebook group sharing threads 2 times a week.
• Get my views up to 20,000 a month.

What are your plans for November?

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Here is this month’s quote:

If your life is like mine, you run into many obstacles. But be encouraged by keeping your eyes on the big picture and by seeing what you did accomplish rather  on what you did not accomplish.

Here’s how I did on September’s goals:

Personal goals:

• Do daily devotions. I did not do them daily. I am still trying to find something that will work right now, but I will keep at it!
• Get my part-time job done before kids get home from school. I have one more week left of the job. I did have to do it on Friday too, but I got the amount of hours required each week done.
• Set up a doctor’s appointment for Joshua. I think I will talk to a doctor next week.
• Set up dentist appointments for October for kids. I just printed out some papers. I still need to set up an appointment!
• Look into Upward sports for the kids. The one I want to do has updated their website yet. Hopefully they will do it again.
• Just focus on getting what needs to be done, done. Nothing extra as I have to get my job done, plus teach 3 hours a day Monday – Thursday. Co-op for Kaylin also starts in September.

Blogging Goals:

• Finish 4 social media jobs. I finished 2 jobs. I only had 3 to work on.
• Spend 10 minutes on Pinterest 3 times a week. (Schedule pins for old seasonal posts.) Did not do; but I scheduled my new pins.
• Make 2 new recipes. I did not make new recipes; but I did write up 3 posts for recipes that I had already taken pictures for but had never put on here before. 
  
  
• Work on my menu bar one week. Did not do.
• Get 1 review/giveaway up. 
• Get 1 Scattered Saturdays up. Go HERE to see it.
• Get one DIY tutorial up. (fall blog hop) I shared this Fall Popcorn Craft.

• Participate in Facebook group sharing threads 2 times a week. I did for my social media jobs.
• Get my views back up to 10,000 a month. I am at 12,000 pageviews. The last couple of days, my views have been down again.

Here are a few more of my favorite posts from this past month (Click on the pictures to visit the posts.)

Here are October’s goals:

Personal goals:

• Do daily devotions.
• Spend time studying our ladies Sunday School book.
• Set up a doctor’s appointment for Joshua.
• Set up dentist appointments for October for kids.
• Look into Upward sports for the kids.
• Make swim shorts for Karis and Kristi.
• Have at least one group of friends over to our house.

Blogging Goals:

• Work on 3 social media jobs to work on.
• Spend 10 minutes on Pinterest 3 times a week. (Schedule pins for old seasonal posts.)
• Make 2 new recipes.
• Work on my menu bar one week.
• Get 1 review/giveaway up.
• Get 2 Scattered Saturdays up.
• Do Thanksgiving blog hop post.
• Participate in Facebook group sharing threads 2 times a week.
• Get my views up to 15,000 a month.My views have dropped off this week again.

What are your plans for October?

If you write about your goals, then please link up below! If you would like to be part of our blogging goals group, then you can ask to join the Facebook group HERE. A group of bloggers all provide the  link-up starting on the  last Friday of every month (some do it later in the month than that day), and it remains open most of the month!

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Here is this month’s quote:

I’m going to keep aiming, and I may even hit it!

Last month, I hit an all-time low on blog views since about 3 years ago. I have been climbing back up due to a couple of great giveaways and more effort placed on blogging this past month, but I still have an upward climb ahead of me.

Here’s how I did on August’s goals:

Personal goals:

• Do daily devotions. — I did really well the first half of the month. I have gotten out of my old rhythm now that school has started, and I need to get a new rhythm established.
• Finish K-5 math with Kiley and 2nd grade math with Joshua. Do more Phonics with Joshua. I did as much as I could, and they were ready for the math they are are now doing.
• Laminate Phonics flashcards.
• Do lesson plans for school.
• Exercise 2 times a week. I did not get any exercise done.
• Go to bed by 11:00 p.m. Fail
• Set up a doctor’s appointment for Joshua. Did not do.
• Set up dentist appointments for September for kids. Did not do.
• Finish pencil pouches for 4 kids (already started just yesterday [Sunday, July 31]). Aren’t they cute?
  
  
• Get Kaylin signed up for Algebra I co-op.
• Get ready for my husband’s special Sunday on August 28.

Blogging Goals:

• Get 2 social media  jobs 90% done — post once a week; get one  job 50% done — post once a week. I need to finish these!!
• Spend 10 minutes on Pinterest 5 times a week. Fail
• Make 2 new recipes. Fail. I did make 2 old recipes and take pictures for Tasty Tuesdays. You can see one of them here.
  
  
• Work on my menu bar one week. I added 15 recipes to the recipe pages.
• Get 2 review/giveaways up.  You can still enter 2 giveaways by clicking on the pictures below:
  
  
• Get 2 Scattered Saturdays up. I only did one.
• Get one DIY tutorial up. My pencil pouch post counts! Also the Duck Tape post is a DIY!
• Participate in Facebook group sharing threads 2 times a week. Mainly for my sponsored posts.
• Get my views back up to 10,000 a month. I only made it to 8,500; but that is 2,500 better than last month!

Here are a few more of my favorite posts from this past month (Click on the pictures to visit the posts.):

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Here are September’s goals:

Personal goals:

• Do daily devotions.
• Get my part-time job done before kids get home from school. I have a 10-15 hour a week job for one month; but with me going into school every morning, it may still be hard to get it all done on Mondays – Thursdays in the afternoon.
• Set up a doctor’s appointment for Joshua.
• Set up dentist appointments for October for kids.
• Look into Upward sports for the kids.
• Just focus on getting what needs to be done, done. Nothing extra as I have to get my job done, plus teach 3 hours a day Monday – Thursday. Co-op for Kaylin also starts in September.

Blogging Goals:

• Finish 4 social media jobs.
• Spend 10 minutes on Pinterest 3 times a week. (Schedule pins for old seasonal posts.)
• Make 2 new recipes.
• Work on my menu bar one week.
• Get 1 review/giveaway up.
• Get 1 Scattered Saturdays up.
• Get one DIY tutorial up. (fall blog hop)
• Participate in Facebook group sharing threads 2 times a week.
• Get my views back up to 10,000 a month.

What are your plans for September?

If you write about your goals, then please link up below! If you would like to be part of our blogging goals group, then you can ask to join the Facebook group HERE. A group of bloggers all provide the  link-up starting on the  last Friday of every month (some do it later in the month than that day), and it remains open most of the month!

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Here is this month’s quote:

Oh, I love this quote! I didn’t reach many goals last month, but I am going to set my targets again this month and hopefully reach more of my goals. 

I did not realize how long it would take for me to feel half-way normal after moving. I only did the bare minimum for a few weeks. Laundry got done, dishes were washed, dinners were made, we visited people in our new church; but blogging definitely too a backseat in my life — and my page views sure evidenced how much of my life was turned upside down. I haven’t seen such bad numbers in 2 years! 

The past couple of weeks, I have had more energy. I sewed 4 swim shirts for the girls and 2 pairs of swim shorts. We had people over, and I started making 4 pencil pouches for the kids for school. School supplies are bought, and we are starting to feel more like Floridians.

This month still will have a lot of changes: a brand new school year starts up with new responsibilities for me as well. But I am hoping that I will get into  a new routine quickly that will reflect time spent on blogging so that my numbers will improve. I am going to try to make more concrete goals to help me succeed this next month!

Here’s how I did on July’s goals:

Personal goals:

• Do daily devotions. Have kids do daily devotions.  I think I was better at this than the kids. I subscribed to many daily devotional emails to see which one I liked best. I read probably 2-3 of them a day as they are short; but at least I am doing something. I also am trying to do the I Peter Bible study book that are Sunday School class is in right now.
• Set up a cleaning time for kids and a time to work on math with Kiley; math and phonics with Joshua. I was doing well on math and phonics until swimming classes started last week. I will hopefully do better this next week. I do have the kids help clean, but probably not enough.
• Do library/book reading programs with the kids. We got started late, and the programs were rather lame; so I threw away the papers. 🙂 Maybe next year!
• Sell more curriculum. A few items sold, but the items are up on Homeschool Classifieds.
• Continue getting to know our church family in Florida. We were able to go swimming at some church members’ houses and we  had many people to our house for a children’s ministry planning meeting.
• Enjoy time as a family. We went to Clearwater Beach, played a few games, and were together most of the time.
• Figure out and order the curriculum I need for school in August as well as enroll Kaylin in her math co-op. I cannot enroll Kaylin until the middle of August.
• Start planning the classes I will teach at the church school my kids will go to. I will do phonics/spelling/writing/language for Kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd grade. (That is only 4 students though.) I have to do this the next 2 weeks.
• See if kids need any physicals for school.  4 of the kids had Pinellas County School Physicals. Kiley will get hers done on Wednesday.
• Sign Kaylin up for a recreational swim team for the end of July. 4 of the kids are doing the swim team last week and this week. Kiley is taking Level 1 swim classes at the same time.
• See if the other kids can do swim lessons (maybe).
• Look for a good bike for myself where I can start biking early in the morning before it gets too hot. We live close to an awesome bike path. Haven’t been able to do this yet.

Blogging Goals:

• Get two review/giveaway posts up. — I should have had these done already. I emailed one company to see if I can do a post this Tuesday.
• Apply for sponsored posts? I just applied for a few. My views are so low that I probably will not get any.
• Continue to do Social Media sponsored jobs. — I need to really work on the three that I have in August. 
• Do two Scattered Saturdays. I only did one.
• Make more recipes for my Tasty Tuesday’s posts. I need to do a bunch in August! Here were some recipes I shared in July:
    
  
• Update a couple of my menu pages. I haven’t added my new recipes to my pages so that visitors can find them. Did not do.
• Start pinning more and adding my links to share threads once again. Only did a little of this.

Here are August’s goals:

Personal goals:

• Do daily devotions.
• Finish K-5 math with Kiley and 2nd grade math with Joshua. Do more Phonics with Joshua.
• Laminate Phonics flashcards.
• Do lesson plans for school.
• Exercise 2 times a week.
• Go to bed by 11:00 p.m.
• Set up a doctor’s appointment for Joshua.
• Set up dentist appointments for September for kids.
• Finish pencil pouches for 4 kids (already started just yesterday [Sunday, July 31]).
• Get Kaylin signed up for Algebra I co-op.
• Get ready for my husband’s special Sunday on August 28.

Blogging Goals:

• Get 2 social media  jobs 90% done — post once a week; get one  job 50% done — post once a week.
• Spend 10 minutes on Pinterest 5 times a week.
• Make 2 new recipes.
• Work on my menu bar one week.
• Get 2 review/giveaways up.
• Get 2 Scattered Saturdays up.
• Get one DIY tutorial up.
• Participate in Facebook group sharing threads 2 times a week.
• Get my views back up to 10,000 a month.

What are your plans for August?

If you write about your goals, then please link up below! If you would like to be part of our blogging goals group, then you can ask to join the Facebook group HERE. A group of bloggers all provide the  link-up starting on the  last Friday of every month (some do it later in the month than that day), and it remains open most of the month!

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Goal #1: Figure out what my goals for August should be!

I am still getting acclimated to my new house and new life, and I feel like I don’t know what I am doing yet — much less make up goals for this month. However, I know some things that I need to be doing, so I’ll attempt to write a goals post for July.

Here is this month’s quote:

Here’s how I did on June’s goals:

Personal goals:

• Do daily devotions.– I found a daily email that I was enjoying for devotions, but some of the recent devotions have had doctrinal problems, so I’m back searching for a devotional that I will really enjoy.
• Sell more curriculum. — I took the curriculum off of Homeschool Classifieds while I was moving, but it is back up for sale now. I just sold something yesterday. Hopefully a lot more will sell.
• Finishing packing up house the first week of June.  
• Clean house/Get house ready to sell. — My parents finished what we could not do. We do have a contract on the house for closing to take place on July 29. Please pray that it will go through!
• Have fun with family on the way to Florida.  — we had so much fun visiting Dave’s sister’s family in Virginia as well as going to Great Wolf Lodge in North Carolina and swimming in the ocean in Georgia. It was a great trip.
• Unpack in Florida 
• Have a good time and get a lot done (curtains made/desk put together) with my parents after they arrive in Florida. — My mom made 3 sets of curtains as well as hang another set (4 sets!). The desk got put together, shelving got put up, decorations were bought. We were busy the whole time! (2 weeks and 2 days) There is no way that we would be done with unpacking if my parents had not come and helped us. We also got to go see Honeymoon Island with them, walk on the Clearwater Causeway (and see dolphins very close!), and go to Tarpon Springs for some souvenirs and eat some Greek food. We had a great time with them, and it was sad to see them pull away this past Thursday.
• Start getting to know our church family in Florida. My parents were here for 2-3 weeks after we moved, so mostly spent our free time with them, but we did go swimming in one of our church member’s pool as well as go eat ice cream at another church member’s house after church. We have a lot more time to get to know all of them!
• Enjoy time as a family. 
• Start figuring out what curriculum I need for school in August as well as enroll Kaylin in her math co-op. –Co-op enrollment will happen in July; I will focus on school more this next month.
• Look for a band for Karis. — I haven’t found a band yet, but she can play in the morning church service with a couple others that play their instruments.
• See if kids need any physicals for school. — I’ll have to look into this in July.

Blogging Goals:

• Get one review/giveaway post up. — Did not do – I need to get up two posts ASAP in July.
• One sponsored post. –I didn’t even apply for any as I am too busy right now.
• Continue to do Social Media sponsored jobs. — I have two I need to get working on!
• Do one Scattered Saturdays. — I did none.
• Make more recipes for my Tasty Tuesday’s posts. — I made a couple of recipes, but I have guest posts right now. Here were this month’s past recipes:

Here are June’s goals:

Personal goals:

• Do daily devotions. Have kids do daily devotions
• Set up a cleaning time for kids and a time to work on math with Kiley; math and phonics with Joshua.
• Do library/book reading programs with the kids.
• Sell more curriculum.
• Continue getting to know our church family in Florida.
• Enjoy time as a family.
• Figure out and order the curriculum I need for school in August as well as enroll Kaylin in her math co-op.
• Start planning the classes I will teach at the church school my kids will go to. I will do phonics/spelling/writing/language for Kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd grade. (That is only 4 students though.)
• See if kids need any physicals for school.
• Sign Kaylin up for a recreational swim team for the end of July.
• See if the other kids can do swim lessons (maybe).
• Look for a good bike for myself where I can start biking early in the morning before it gets too hot. We live close to an awesome bike path.

Blogging Goals:

• Get two review/giveaway post up. — I need to get one done for a product I just received.
• Apply for sponsored posts? I may lay low on these until August as we are still very busy.
• Continue to do Social Media sponsored jobs. — I need to really work on two that I am committed to right now.
• Do two Scattered Saturdays. I am so behind on these right now!
• Make more recipes for my Tasty Tuesday’s posts.
• Update a couple of my menu pages. I haven’t added my new recipes to my pages so that visitors can find them.
• Start pinning more and adding my links to share threads once again.

What are your plans for July?

If you write about your goals, then please link up below! If you would like to be part of our blogging goals group, then you can ask to join the Facebook group HERE. A group of bloggers all provide the  link-up starting on the  last Friday of every month (some do it later in the month than that day), and it remains open most of the month!

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Goal #1: Get some sleep!

Yep, that is right. I think June may be a month with very little sleep. But God has seen us through so far, and I know He will give us the strength to get done what needs to be done.

Here is this month’s quote:

I find it interesting to see what quote is for each month, because I made all these pictures back in January. This month we will be moving to Florida and starting our life there. It has been “invisible” in one way. We are planning for the unknown. Not until we get there will it all become “visible.” Since we are not sure exactly what life will be like — and June will probably be very different than other months with all the unpacking we have to do — it is hard to make goals. But some goals are obvious, so that is what we will focus on in this goals post.

Here’s how I did on May’s goals:

Personal goals:

• Do daily devotions. I did not do well here. I really want to do better now that school is over.
• Sell all curriculum. I sold a lot, but still have some left.
• Pack up house. We have a lot packed, but still have a lot to do this week.
• Clean house/Get house ready to sell. It is on the market.
• Kindergarten graduation  — It went very well!
• Have fun with friends and family here. 
• Schedule a playdate for May with Kaylin’s friend and maybe Karis’s friend.

Blogging Goals:

• Get one review post up. — I need to get one done for a product I just received.
• One sponsored post. — I have two scheduled for this month.
• Continue to do Social Media sponsored jobs. — I have a couple I need to finish this month.
• Do one Scattered Saturdays. You can see some pictures HERE.
• Somehow get my views back up around 15,000 views. I did really bad the first three weeks. I had a giveaway that boosted my views the fourth week. I had only 9,000+ pageviews this month.
• Make more recipes for my Tasty Tuesday’s posts. Here are some recipe posts from this past month. The Strawberry & Apple Fizz was a guest post!

Here are June’s goals:

Personal goals:

• Do daily devotions.
• Sell more curriculum.
• Finishing packing up house the first week of June.
• Clean house/Get house ready to sell.
• Have fun with family on the way to Florida.
• Unpack in Florida 
• Have a good time and get a lot done (curtains made/desk put together) with my parents after they arrive in Florida.
• Start getting to know our church family in Florida.
• Enjoy time as a family.
• Start figuring out what curriculum I need for school in August as well as enroll Kaylin in her math co-op.
• Look for a band for Karis.
• See if kids need any physicals for school.

Blogging Goals:

• Get one review/giveaway post up. — I need to get one done for a product I just received.
• One sponsored post. — I stopped looking at these for a couple of weeks as I’m so busy right now.
• Continue to do Social Media sponsored jobs. — I have a couple I need to do in June.
• Do one Scattered Saturdays.
• Make more recipes for my Tasty Tuesday’s posts.

What are your plans for June?

If you write about your goals, then please link up below! If you would like to be part of our blogging goals group, then you can ask to join the Facebook group HERE. A group of bloggers all provide the  link-up starting on the  last Friday of every month (some do it later in the month than that day), and it remains open most of the month!

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 Wow! We got a ton done in April which makes me hopeful that we will get all that we need to get done in May done.

I love this quote because our priorities are changing every month due to life changing.

Here’s how I did on April’s goals:

Personal goals:

• Do daily devotions. — I have been very bad this month! I’ve started reading a Psalm and Proverbs again in the car on the way to school so that I at least do something.
• Put more of my curriculum up for sale. It’s all up; now it just needs to sell. I’ve posted it HERE.
• Pack up more items/get rid of more items/do garage sale.  Garage sale is DONE! We did very well. I just need to sell a couple of things on Craigslist.
• Get house ready to sell. We actually just loaded a 20′ truck up and it’s going to Florida. This will help us immensely to make the house look roomier so we can list it.
• Continue getting ready for Kindergarten graduation. We are doing well on knowing our songs and poems.
• Visit with one friend. I went to a little party my friend had, and I visited with a good friend as she helped me with my garage sale and the night we packed up.
• Spend time with my husband’s side of the family. I did not; but my husband and some of the kids did.
• Contact hotels and see if I can do a review for them on our travel to Florida and get a discount and then make reservations. No reviews were available; but reservations have been made.
• Schedule a playdate for May with Kaylin’s friends; one friend is coming over on April 9. She had one friend come over.
• Visit my sister the last weekend in April to get rid of more items. My sister actually came up to me with all the stuff, but we are going to see them this weekend.

Blogging Goals:

• Get one review post up. — One should be arriving soon for me to do. I finally got it, but now I am too busy to do the craft. Hopefully I can get to it in May.
• One sponsored post. — I have not received any yet. I had two this past month! I would love views on them especially this one (there is a $25 gift card giveaway too!):
  —Mostaccioli Alfredo Recipe with $25 gift card giveaway
  — Printable Pampers Coupons
  

• Continue to do Social Media sponsored jobs. — I have not been hired for these recently. I have two jobs currently.
• Do one Scattered Saturdays. I am only up to January! You can see pictures of Joshua’s and Kiley’s birthdays on January’s post. I don’t know if I’ll ever get caught up or not!
• Keep my views around 15,000 views. My views have been terrible! I’m at almost 10,000 pageviews, and last year I was at 15,000. Maybe it is because I am not able to share my posts like I used to be able to do and I am not doing craft posts. However, I do  have great recipes and some good posts published plus all my old posts. I had 30,000 pageviews in December, so I think it is because Pinterest has changed their algorithm. Although I am still getting my highest referral traffic from them. I also do not have all the inlinkz referrals as I am not doing my Bloggers Brags Pinterest Party. I don’t know. I am disappointed as I’ve been trying to put more time into blogging to keep my views up, and it seems such a struggle now. Nevertheless, I got 2 sponsored posts this past month, and two more I am doing/finishing up in May. I am very thankful for that!
• Publish at least one printable — I need to do a verse printable this week to finish out my alphabet series.
• Make more recipes for my Tasty Tuesday’s posts. Can you tell that we like desserts? Here are the recipes I added this month:
  —Lemon Squares
  — 3 Easy Recipes for a Kid’s Movie night
  —Easy Mostaccioli Alfredo with Chicken Strips
  —Peanut Butter Chip Chocolate Cookies

Here are May’s goals:

Personal goals:

• Do daily devotions.
• Sell all curriculum
• Pack up house.
• Clean house/Get house ready to sell.
• Kindergarten graduation
• Have fun with friends and family here. 
• Schedule a playdate for May with Kaylin’s friend and maybe Karis’s friend.

Blogging Goals:

• Get one review post up. — I need to get one done for a product I just received.
• One sponsored post. — I have two scheduled for this month.
• Continue to do Social Media sponsored jobs. — I have a couple I need to finish this month.
• Do one Scattered Saturdays.
• Somehow get my views back up around 15,000 views. 
• Make more recipes for my Tasty Tuesday’s posts.

Here are some of my Thoughtful Thursdays posts from March. 
   

What are your plans for May?

If you write about your goals, then please link up below! If you would like to be part of our blogging goals group, then you can ask to join the Facebook group HERE. A group of bloggers all provide the  link-up starting on the  last Friday of every month (some do it later in the month than that day), and it remains open most of the month!

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Life is spiraling faster and faster as we head to June.

I am thankful for good friends, a wonderful family, my husband, and the Lord who promises I can do all things through His strength. I am not quite sure how to make reasonable goals for April and May, but I will try.

Here’s how I did on March’s goals:

Personal goals:

• Do daily devotions. I want to wake up earlier to spend time with God. — I did not do well on this. I just started reading the devotional book again, Lord I Want to Know You. (affiliate link) It’s about the names of God, and this is helping me to be more motivated about doing my devotions.
• Get lesson plans/calendar done for Kindergarten for March.  (I’m actually done through the rest of the year!)
• Start going through clothes/packing boxes. I also want to get some items on Facebook garage sale groups/Craigslist to get big items out of our house so that we have room to start stacking boxes.  I’ve done a lot — but have a lot more to do.
• Get house ready to sell. — Our house is too cluttered right now. We have to have a garage sale first, but it’s been too cold to do one.
• Get ready for spring break trip to see my Grandma. We went and had a great time!
• Go to visit the church in Florida first weekend in March. This was also a great weekend.
• Get ready for a tally (behavior) party. It was a success! Now, I just have another one to do this Friday.
• Start practicing songs/poems for Kindergarten graduation.
• Visit with one friend at least. We want to spend some time with our friends here before we move so far away. We were able to spend Good Friday with a good friend’s family.
• Spend time with family. We had Spring Break and Easter with my family.

Blogging Goals:

• Get one review post up.  — Did a couple review/giveaways in March.
• One sponsored post.  — I really loved doing this sponsored post. It turned out to be a very personal post.
• Continue to do Social Media sponsored jobs. — none were offered this month.
• Do one Scattered Saturdays.
• Keep my views around 20,000 views. — I’m at about 15,000 this month, but they are dropping off right now. Everybody is talking about how Pinterest has changed the algorithm and how that has influenced their traffic. Maybe that is the reason for me too. However, I really don’t have time to research it.
• Publish at least one printable. — I did my last one on February 29.

Here are April’s goals:

Personal goals:

• Do daily devotions.
• Put more of my curriculum up for sale.
• Pack up more items/get rid of more items/do garage sale.
• Get house ready to sell.
• Continue getting ready for Kindergarten graduation.
• Visit with one friend.
• Spend time with my husband’s side of the family.
• Contact hotels and see if I can do a review for them on our travel to Florida and get a discount and then make reservations.
• Schedule a playdate for May with Kaylin’s friends; one friend is coming over on April 9.
• Visit my sister the last weekend in April to get rid of more items.

Blogging Goals:

• Get one review post up. — One should be arriving soon for me to do.
• One sponsored post. — I have not received any yet.
• Continue to do Social Media sponsored jobs. — I have not been hired for these recently
• Do one Scattered Saturdays.
• Keep my views around 15,000 views.
• Publish at least one printable — I need to do a verse printable this week to finish out my alphabet series.
• Make more recipes for my Tasty Tuesday’s posts.

Here is my sponsored post that I would love some views on.

Here are some of my Thoughtful Thursdays posts from March.

Here are a few fun food posts from March:

What are your plans for April?

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February was busy, exciting, and life-changing for our family; and now we launch into the third month of 2016!

I shared on this past week’s Thoughtful Thursday’s post how that our family will be moving in June  to Florida. 1,300 miles away; 22 hours in a car. 3 months to get everything done.

It’s overwhelming when I think of all that must get done. I really don’t know how it will get done; but I know it must get done — so it will get done. So we will attempt to make goals that we will aim at so that at least some things get done and we don’t just sit and fret about all that needs to get done.

Here’s how I did on February’s goals:

Personal goals:

• Do daily devotions. I need to do better in March.
• Get lesson plans/calendar done for Kindergarten for January. done
• Get ready for a trip we need to take in the middle of the month. done
• Get ready for 3 class parties. done
• Start getting Kindergarten graduation program done. Got the program typed out, but need to still work on it.

Blogging Goals:

• Get one review post up. done
• Get one sponsored post up. done
• Continue to do Social Media sponsored jobs. done
• Do one Scattered Saturdays. done 
• Keep my views around 20,000 views. I had a Valentine’s post that did great, so I had @34,000 pageviews this month. They have died off at the end of the month.

Here are March’s goals:

Personal goals:

• Do daily devotions. I want to wake up earlier to spend time with God.
• Get lesson plans/calendar done for Kindergarten for March.
• Start going through clothes/packing boxes. I also want to get some items on Facebook garage sale groups/Craigslist to get big items out of our house so that we have room to start stacking boxes.
• Get house ready to sell.
• Get ready for spring break trip to see my Grandma.
• Go to visit the church in Florida first weekend in March.
• Get ready for a tally (behavior) party.
• Start practicing songs/poems for Kindergarten graduation.
• Visit with one friend at least. We want to spend some time with our friends here before we move so far away.
• Spend time with family.

Blogging Goals:

• Get one review post up.
• One sponsored post.
• Continue to do Social Media sponsored jobs.
• Do one Scattered Saturdays.
• Keep my views around 20,000 views.
• Publish at least one printable

Here is one current giveaway. One more giveaway will be posted in the next week.

Here is my sponsored post that I would love some views on.

Here are some of my Thoughtful Thursdays posts from February. 

Here are a few fun food posts from February:

And here are some free Dr. Seuss quote printables you can use this month!

What are your plans for March?

If you write about your goals, then please link up below! If you would like to be part of our blogging goals group, then you can ask to join the Facebook group HERE. A group of bloggers all provide the  link-up starting on the  last Friday of every month (some do it later in the month than that day), and it remains open most of the month!

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