Leah's 2009 Resolutions

These are my resolutions for the year 2009, NOT that I have 2009 resolutions!

I sat down to make my list at the end of November. I wanted to think through what I would focus on this year and try to concentrate on what was most important. To help me do that, I first thought through "My Job Description" and "My Duties". Here's how it goes:

My Job Description
-To love God and keep His commandments
-To love my hsuband and show him honor and respect in the way I speak and act
-To love my children and train them up in the way of the Lord
-To love my Christian sister and teach her to be self-controlled, pure, a hard worker at home, kind, and submissive

My Duties
-Read my Bible and pray daily
-Reflect on God's characteristics
-Listen to Ed and respect what he says
-Read the Bible to the boys and talk to them about God
-Teach other women
-Be a hard worker at home by...
-Cleaning daily
-Cooking
-Meal planning
-Doing laundry
-Grocery shopping

Thinking through these things helped me to see weaknesses in my life and come up with a better list of goals to work on. Here's what I came up with:

-Read through the Bible, noting God's mercy and compassion. It helps me to have a task at hand when I sit down to read the Word.
-Spend $50 or less average on groceries each week. This is a goal that will take me all year to work my way towards. I am at about $100/week right now. I'm trying to gradually take it down by re-evaluating my meals, buying less convenience food, and stocking up when I find good prices. I hope to be at this goal by the end of the year.
-Take my prenatal vitamin, fiber supplement, and use my estrogen supplement every day. I am absolutely HORRIBLE about consistently taking medicine.
-Continue to limit my time on the computer. I have cut back a lot the past month or so and I want to keep this up. I want to spend time with my family and working on my home instead of wasting all sorts of time doing silly things (Facebook time warp, anyone?)
-Stop watching Grey's Anatomy. I like watching this show but sometimes it is a bit too much for me and so I decided to just stop watching it. I haven't missed it.
-Be intimate with my husband __ times/week. I'm too embarrassed to write the number, but let's just say it's more than what we have been doing! :) Ed works from 3pm-11pm and so this is such a tough area for us. I am trying really hard to be more open to intimacy. I'm also embarrassed b/c I'm pretty sure my mom reads this blog!
-Write things in the checkbook. I stink at this and it drives my husband crazy.
-Do Quicken. Ugh, my parents have harped on me for years to do Quicken and I don't know why I don't b/c it is so great, but I think it is the consistency thing that always messes me up. To be honest, it is Jan. 16th and I still haven't started!
-Ask Ed before spending money. He has asked me time and again to do this. I am trying to keep it up in order to honor him.
-Keep a short prayer list in my Bible and pray for them daily. I have an empty slot now because Hollie is pregnant! Praise God!
-Do memory verse with Samuel. Haven't worked on this one yet either.
-Make cleaning schedule and STICK TO IT. Ugh, I hate to clean.
-Actively find ways to respect Ed, namely in the way I speak to him. I'm really embarrassed as I type this because he just left the house for work after I made a sarcastic comment to him! We are both very sarcastic people and it can be so easy to make cuts at each other with our words in the name of "just teasing" or "just being funny."

That's mine! I am nervous for the end of the year to come around and I will have to face these IN PRINT. Yikes.