Summer Goals

1. Potty-train Makenna.    She is so stubborn...I don't know where she gets that from, I'll just blame her dad. We are currently on day 2 of sitting on the potty every 30 minutes (yes I have a timer on the fridge that goes off when it's time) and me asking her every 5 minutes if she needs to potty. We went through about 5 or 6 pair of undies yesterday and 2 so far today, with no successful potty attempts. Right now I am putting undies on and then pull ups on over top of them...I'm not ready to clean up pee messes everywhere. I have made charts to show her progress and to show how many stickers earned gets a certain prize. As of 11:25AM we haven't earned any stickers at all. I sure hope this gets easier. Back in November and December we weren't peeing on the potty but we were sitting on it all of the time without crying about it. Then in January we had sort of a traumatic experience and since then even trying to get her to sit on the potty has been torture. And then the last several months have just been inconsistent because of where mom has been sick and going through her treatments and then 3 or 4 different people have been taking care of Makenna. I'm hoping that just having me around and staying home as much as possible over the next couple of weeks will trigger her to go. Wish us luck!

2. Lose weight.    I don't care if it's only 5lbs, I want to lose some weight. Let me rephrase that, I NEED TO LOSE SOME WEIGHT! I went to "my doctor" on Monday and just couldn't believe what I weighed. I've become so consumed with teaching, taking classes, and taking care of this family, I have completely given up on myself and as a result I've let myself get to a point that I hate. Please keep me in your prayers because eating healthy and doing exercise for me is not that easy of a thing. It's not that I really I need to eat more healthy, I guess just maybe not as much of a helping or cut back on the carbs. Exercising is the bigger issue. I HATE IT and can't find the motivation anywhere. But I'm hoping that since I'm not teaching or taking classes this summer I will find the motivation that I need.

3. Make lesson plans.   This is always a summer goal for me but since we are getting brand new laptops sometime in the fall I need to make some new ones for sure that go with the software. We have our training sessions on June 22 and 23 so I will probably just wait until then before I start anything.

4. Reread the 6th Harry Potter book, "Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince" before we go see the movie on IMAX! I don't know if this is sad to say or not, but seeing this movie may be the highlight of my summer. But I LOVE HARRY POTTER!!!

5. Reorganize.   Anything and everything that needs it in my house. This will probably be an ongoing summer project. I guess I should start with closets and drawers/cabinets and then go from there. My motto is, "If I haven't used it in the last year, obviously I don't need it" and I usually just chuck it.

6. Try to find Makenna swim lessons.  If not then definitely next summer. I'm scared to death of the water (thanks Mrs. Howard  :) ) and can't swim for nothing. I don't want Makenna to be afraid and I most definitely want her to learn to swim. She can develop fears of things very easily (I think I made a blog post about having hear ears cleaned out....) and sometimes she already acts afraid of the water. My cousin is taking her almost 1 year old little girl to Infant Swimming Resource classes where they teach you how to save your life if you fall in more than actually swim. I want Makenna to learn to swim 1st before I enroll her in something like this because I'm afraid the ISR will totally freak her out, which is not what I want. If she wasn't almost 3 I might go ahead and do the ISR but I think she's old enough to know what being afraid of the water is and I don't want to scar her for life.

I'm sure I'll come up with other goals or things that I could be or should be doing that will add to the list, but for now that's all I can come up with.