So here are my four goals for this year and a quick note on how we are doing:
1. Read through the Bible - With the plan I am using this year I will read cover to cover. I am at Leviticus 3 which is right on track with the schedule. I missed a few days but was able to make them up to stay on track.
2. Listen to through the Bible with my children - We have made it to Exodus 15. My goal for this month was to make it through Exodus so we fell a little short. I find that often we get busy doing stuff and I forget to turn it on for us to listen. As the month progressed I started doing better and I think we will be able to catch up soon.
3. Read 2,012 pages of great Christian biographies & classic literature aloud to my children - So far we have read 139 pages. In order to make our goal we need to read about 168 pages per month but for about a week I was sick with sore throat and scratchy voice and was not able to get much reading done. We started reading about 30 min a day after lunch but it not ends up being at least 45 and a couple times we have read an hour. We finished reading a biography on the life of Hudson Taylor we started last year. When we finished that we read a couple of stories written by Hans Christian Andersen.
4. Declutter 2,012 items from our house - This month I have decluttered 1,016 items from our house! Scott took our kids for a day and allowed me concentrated time to work on some major purging of things around here. While I have the 2,012 goal for this entire year I would love to reach it much sooner in the year as we are praying God would lead us to a church soon and I want to have the house decluttered as much as possible before a move. It has been so freeing to get rid of so many items cluttering our lives.
