Friday, October 23, 2009

Starting November early

Okay,
I know that it isn't November yet, but I know that my year supply stuff will take more than a month to work on. But I am so proud of me! I inventoried my toiletries, soap, shampoo, toothpaste, etc. I want to figure out how much of each we "need" during the year and put a list on the inside of each cabinet door so we can mark when we use something to help with the inventory. I have been getting so many items for free the past two months at CVS and Walgreens. I wanted to make sure that I wasn't buying too much!

Monday, October 19, 2009

November - Food Storage

There are many things that I need for food storage, but I am going to try to break it down into little steps that I will actually do.
For my focus of the month of November, I am going to accomplish the following things:
Make a master list of items I need in my food storage including: cleaning supplies, personal hygiene items, and canned/boxed foods
Make a system to document what items I have and what items I use
Update 72 hour kits
Make a list of breakfast, lunch, and dinner items we enjoy as a family and what supplies I need to make them.
Buy items that are on sale for Thanksgiving including turkey. Can turkey meat.

My new goal

I have been feeling really burned out lately. I know that I have been doing too much, but what to cut out? I can't really, but I can organize myself better. And so I am going to refocus myself. I have been thinking this past week that the Lord wants us to be more like His temple, both our house and our body. So I am going to set up 12 monthly habits that I will follow adding one each month so that a year from now, hopefully both my body and my home will be more temple-like.
I am following two scriptures. The first is found in the Doctrine and Covenants:
Organize yourselves; prepare every needful thing, and establish a house, even a house of prayer, a house of fasting, a house of faith, a house of learning, a house of glory, a house of order, a house of God;
Since everything on earth has both a temporal and spiritual part, I will be working on both the temporal and spiritual parts of my house.

This year's temporal house goals:
Organized house - no paper piles
Straightened house - end of day house picked up
House of Learning - daily learning lessons for children and myself

This year's spiritual house goals:
food storage - plan, place, and store
Provident living - budget and long term goals
Family Home Evening and Prayers - Establish a firmer habit

My second scripture is found in the New Testament:
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? 1 Corinthians 6:19

This year's temporal body goals:
Good food
Exercise
Relax

This year's spiritual body goals:
Temple work
Prayer and scripture study
Journal

So my calendar plan:
November
food storage - plan, place, and store
December
Good food
January
Organized house - no paper piles
February
Temple work
March
Provident living - budget and long term goals
April
Exercise
May
Straightened house - end of day house picked up
June
Prayer and scripture study
July
Family Home Evening and Prayers - Establish a firmer habit
August
Relax
September
House of Learning - daily learning lessons for children and myself
October
Journal