This week's assignment is to write down some goals. This is a hard one for me - I don't usually set goals. It's not that I don't like some kind of direction in my life, it's more that (as my husband says), "I've learned that if I make plans, God is committed to send me in a different direction." But I did start this year writing down some goals for our homeschool, so I'll list some of those and some goals for myself that I'm tentatively making.

School:

• for my daughter to become comfortable reading
• for my son to write a one-paragraph story

Home: for me to build the habits of following my weekly cleaning routines

Personal:

• for me to exercise 3 times each week
• for my son to build his self-control
• for my daughter to learn and build attentiveness

OK, this turned out to be good because it made me look at the list of goals I made up for the children last summer. There were character qualities that I planned to work on with each child this year, but as we've gotten caught up in our school routines, I've forgotten about those things. Over our break I'll have to pray about and plan for how to incorporate them into our time together.