Making Your Home a Haven Challenge: Day 8
Thanks for allowing me a brief interlude in this Challenge to deal with my sick daughter and some unforeseen website issues. When I first started this Challenge, I had no idea what these weeks would hold! Thanks for bearing with me. Now on to Thursday's challenge...1. Refresh Your Spirit.
I can't stress how important it is to begin your day on the right foundation - the solid Rock! You may not have hours to sit and study God's Word, but you can take a few moments to commit your day to the Lord, to soak up the richness of His Word, and to ask Him for strength and grace for whatever today holds.
How did the Lord encourage your heart this morning? Share with us!
2. Do Your Morning Routine.
Do you have a simple morning routine? If not, sit down right now and write out a short list of five things you'd like to accomplish in the same order every morning. Put this list somewhere obvious where you can reference it often every morning until you have it memorized.
Here's my list:
-Get up, spend time in God's Word and prayer, write in my journal
-Exercise (Right now my goal is to do Pilates and stair-stepping for 30 minutes every week day.)
-Shower and get dressed to my shoes (Thanks to FLyLady's encouragement, I've learned to love wearing shoes.)
-Start a load of laundry.
-Spend 15 minutes with Jesse.
What's your morning routine? Post it if you've not done so already!
3. Take Time to Plan.
What's on your to-do list today? If you don't already have a short to-do list written out, take a moment to write one out right now. Keep it to 10 items or less and then number them in order of importance and work on them in that order. Don't start on #2 until #1 is done. And so forth.
Share your to-do list on your blog today and keep us posted on your progress!
4. What's On The Menu for Dinner?
Do you have dinner planned and prepared? If not, pull something out of the freezer, stick something in the crockpot, whip up a casserole, or get as much prep. work done as you can for dinner.
Post what you're making (or made) for dinner if you have a chance!
5. Project of the Day.
Put on an apron, light some candles, roll up your sleeves, and let's get to work! Today's project is the bedrooms. You can either choose to tackle all of the bedrooms, or you can just pick the one which needs the most work and start there. Set the timer for 15 minutes and do a quick pick up, declutter and throw out trash, do a quick dust and vacuum, and you're done!
Take before and after pictures of the bedroom(s) you clean and share them on your blog.
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Join in the fun! If you have time, blog about what you accomplish today including before and after pictures, if you'd like. Leave your link to your blog post below. Let's all inspire one another on to making our homes a haven for our families!
Labels: Making Your Home a Haven
posted by Crystal Paine at 11:00 PM
4 Comments:
This has been such a fun week and I've accomplished a lot! We, too, have had a few "detours" and interruptions but I suppose that simply teaches Mama to be flexible! Glad your website kinks are worked out... hope Kaitlynn is much better.
~Kristy
I'm so glad you got your website problems worked out and that Kaitlynn is feeling better. I've really enjoyed starting this challenge and I was a little lost yesterday!! LOL
Thanks for keeping us on track...even if I deviate quite a bit!
Glad your website problems are taken care of...I hope it wasn't financially a drain. And hope Kaitlynn is better. We've been battling colds in our house.
Done!
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