It’s a new school year, and I’m trying to start the school year with #goals. As a family, we have worked all summer to cook together and try new foods… Mainly produce items and colors but we tried cooking some new dishes, too.
This pic here is my attempt to track our efforts. Tracking has become a norm for me since starting weight watchers. This is just a tweak of what I’m doing on my own, really. Every month we will use this board to keep tabs of what we cook and eat- the proteins and colors we use. We will either color in or write in what we eat… The goal to keep it balanced and get all the colors in. If we are lacking somewhere, then we will hunt through my cookbooks or Pinterest to find something we could try. I have come to love having our girls in the kitchen with me. It won’t be easy with all of our schedules, but I’m hoping this board will be a visual for me to make more of an effort. We had some good bonding this summer over peeling, grating, sautéing, and stirring the roux FOREVER. You can have some pretty awesome girl talk in the kitchen! Sometimes they’re more willing to talk when you’re doing something while you chat. 😉
But in all honesty, in thinking this through, I realized I need to keep a focus on health being all-encompassing. Because it is so much more than salads and smoothies, right? So, we also added a workout pyramid that I adapted from the bible study “Fit to Serve”. It will be a guide to follow for how often we do different types of activity during the week. I can already tell this will need tweaking as we go… But it’s a good place to start. It should get them thinking a little less about couch time with candy crush and a little more about getting out and about with Pokemon Go! Fingers crossed …
We also added a big noticeable part to focus on: random acts of kindness. There is a grid of ideas to get us started, but also blank squares where we can write our own onto sticky notes. In an effort to live well, it can become pretty easy to become self-focused. That is understandably so, but it really should be in balance. Getting yourself healthier is really just a basis to live and serve in the world better. My goal is to have us, as a family, point our eyes outward into the world and see where we can add just a little drop of goodness towards others in our day to day lives.
And at the top… We will each pick a scripture for the month. Faith needs to be the foundation to it all. Each of us will choose one bible verse that we all will reference. So that means six bible verses for us as a family to learn about, talk about, and practice over the course of a month.
My hope and prayer is that we will stay focused and interactive with this. It’s a visible way to keep track of what we talk about often. We have four daughters that each learn in their own way. Talking through things is good, but the visual of this is just another way to try and teach them how to live better…. to live well. I hope this helps develop healthier habits for all of us. It’s a way to be intentional, which is something I have been working on for awhile now. I will follow up at the end of September with how we did. #squadgoals in a mind-body-spirit kind of way.☺️
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