Goals update

1. Friday night couples: This has been on hiatus for a while, what with my trip and March Madness and John's trip next week. We'll start up again in April.

2. Scripture Mastery: The girls are up to 2Ne 2:27, which is a little longer but I'm amazed how Kate and Mary are catching on. I think they must practice with each other at night. Mary would desperately like to beat Kate in memorizing this one, but I don't think it is going to happen. Alas, at least it is good motivation for her. The little girls are coming right along too. They really get into it, but it is a little harder for them. Ruth has gotten so that if she is tired she'll say, No scriptures just my song. I'm all right with that. We say them every night as a family anyway so she's really not missing out and she's still learning them really well. I also just had John download some free scripture mastery songs to put in the ipod. I think the girls will get a kick out of them. Musically speaking, they're not the best things ever, but the girls will be excited, just judging from the fact that they made me listen to the Books in the Book of Mormon song like 50 times the other day, just because they knew all the words (we had sung it for our hymn of the week a few weeks before).

3. Exercising: John put my exerciser away while I was on my trip, but then very kindly found me a new spot when I asked about it when I got home. I've done it maybe twice this week, but I have to say that it makes me feel great so I'm going to try to be lots better.

4. Finish projects: I went up to my mom's and at least cut out my quilt block for the month and hers too. I still need to sew it but I'm getting there. I also worked on my frog book for Ruth so I'm taking baby steps toward getting something done.

5. Go to bed earlier: I've kind of given up on this goal because I can only sleep so long on one side before my leg goes numb, and so the earlier I go to bed, the longer I struggle so it seems more time efficient to just stay up and get something done--hoping that I actually do something.

6. Family indexing: I've still been doing it everyday and now they're doing state censuses. Some of them have been kind of hard, but I still get a lot of sense of accomplishment from doing them. They say that they are now indexing about a million names a day. Amazing!!!

7. Surprise gift for John: I have also been working on this daily. I've upped my amount that I do per day because I'm afraid that it is not going to get done on time. Hopefully it will.

8. Positive kid moments: None, not that I haven't had any, I just haven't been recording them all that well. I need to work on the whole journal thing a little.