Bible in 90 Days

September 3 in 30, Week 4

September 24, 2011 by Carey Jane Clark

Feeling a little overwhelmed this week. I began work on my proposal to send to agents, and feeling the strain a little. More on that a little later this week.

Here’s how I’m doing on my goals:

Bible in 90 Days – On day 65, should be on day 77. Yes, the gap is widening.
Revision – Getting there, but looked over some of the previous chapters and realized they still need a bit more work. Will it ever end?
Starting Homeschool – The cracks started to show a bit this week–fortunately, we filled them in with field trips! On Monday, it’s back to a normal schedule, no matter what!

Oh the challenge of settling into routine again! I’m not sure who it was harder on, me or my kids. But some great learning did happen this week. We settled into our lighter routine. We’ll add more as we go along. Next week we add grammar and writing. The week after we’ll get into French and Latin as well.

This week, we started our new science curriculum, and also cracked open our new Canadian history curriculum. I think everyone was equally excited–except Sprout. I’m going to have to work a little harder on engaging her in some of the group aspects of our curriculum where she’d rather slip off and putter with playdough or host tea parties for her favorite “stuffies.” She’s doing well with the things I can give her individual attention on, though.

Here’s how I’m doing with my goals:

Settle into homeschool routine. (As noted above.)
While traveling this week, I read five days’ worth in one day, then the next two days got bogged down again. I will catch up. I am determined. I have been incredibly comforted by the readings this week in a situation we’ve been facing, and I’m determined to see this through.
Continue revision. Lost a little steam here for reasons which shall be explained in a future post this week, but I’m still plugging away. I’m on chapter 27 of 35.

How are you doing with your goal-setting? Has back to school been a bonus or a minus?

September 3 in 30

September 5, 2011 by Carey Jane Clark

Wow. It’s September. Does anyone else think the summer flew by? We traveled A LOT, moved, and I participated somewhat last-minute in a writer’s conference. I will remember this summer with fondness.

But it’s back to school, even though I still feel somewhat unprepared. It’s such a comfort to know, however, that we don’t have to start with everything all at once. We’ll be starting off with just a few subjects, and adding others in as the weeks go on. For the last few days, we’ve been staying with another homeschool family, and of course we’ve had the chance to compare notes a bit, so I for one am raring to go.

Here are my goals for September:

Get school off to a good start. For me, this means getting back into a school routine, and starting my kids off gently with homeschool. It will be fun to include Sprout in our new routine, but I know that will be part of the challenge of things for the beginning of the school year.
Get back on track with the Bible in 90 Days reading plan. You may have thought I forgot about that! It’s been a struggle to stay on top of the reading with all the travel, and a health challenge I may blog about at some future point. A couple of days this week, we were tenting, so even though I was up earlier and later than the kids, we were dependent on natural light, so couldn’t read. I am determined to get back on track, though, and September and a slightly more normal schedule (we’ll still have some travel on weekends) should help to facilitate that.
Finish revision of my manuscript and submit it. I am a little behind on my goals for this as well, but hoping the return to a normal schedule will help with this as well. I did quite a bit of work one day while driving in the car, and hope to do the same on Tuesday when we travel home.

Is September a fresh start for you too?

July 3 in 30 Week 3

July 17, 2011 by Carey Jane Clark

It has been a busy week. I’m not sure there were actually 24 hours in each of those days. Here’s how I’m doing on this month’s goals:

Manuscript revision – A little bit behind on where I’d hoped to be with revision, but sticking at it, and should still finish by July 31. This is a good thing, because I’ve just learned I’ve been given a scholarship to a writer’s conference next month. I have several goals for the conference, and getting this manuscript completed by then gives me a chance at reaching them.
Bible in 90 Days – I have had to fight a bit to do it, but I’m on track.
Exercise 4 times a week – This is not where I expected to have difficulty, but it was the first thing to fly out the window when the late nights began. I simply woke up too late to squeeze everything into my morning, and didn’t want to skip the Bible reading. I also counted on exercising using videos again when I was at my inlaws’ and at my parents’ and didn’t count on the challenges of other people’s schedules and the space limitations of so many people in the same space (there were 11 of us at my parents’). The rest of the month should be easier, as the during-the-week schedule is easing off, and just the weekends will be busy.

It’s been more challenging than I thought to reach my goals, partly because I was somehow thinking that most of the busyness would be over by the time the Bible in 90 Days started. Bit of a miscalculation on my part there.

But I’m not going to let myself get completely derailed. I intend to push through and do my best.

How about you? How are you doing?

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