Accomplishments for 08/24 – 08/30

Date posted: Sunday August 30th, 2009 || Filed under: Accomplishments, Uncategorized || 3 Comments

So, I’ve been slacking with the whole keeping up with my blog the past few weeks – life has been hectic! I’ve been getting myself, Nickolas, and the rest of the family ready for the new school year. This is SO new to us! I got my license last week, so I’ve been on the go trying to get everything taken care of… Plus, I got four, yes, FOUR teeth pulled on Friday. I’ve been laying low since.

So, part of my therapy with my psychologist is writing out my accomplishments. I wanted to share those with you all.

My Accomplishments for 08/24 through 08/30.

• I visited both my parents. (Yes, Mom included.)
• I’ve been keeping calming a lot better lately. I’ve still blown up and threw off the handle – but I’ve calmed myself down a lot faster than before, and has had al ot more patience when I really try.
• Met Nickolas’ teacher this week. I asked a lot of questions and felt really involved.
• I kept calm with Matt when he picked up Nickolas this weekend. I kept our conversation to the bare minimum, and pushed aside any anger, or other feelings I had towards him or the situation.
• I set up Nickolas’ clothes for the week.
• Nickolas and I sat down and picked his meals for the week (They always have a choice between a few entrees for his breakfast and lunch – so we sat down and chose which one he would want for each day so there was no confusion later on or at school.)
• Bought all his snacks for the month.
• Got all four of my teeth pulled – that was a MAJOR accomplishment in itself.
• Went to bed early almost all week. This weekend, after getting my teeth pulled, I was in bed before 10pm every day, and rested a lot.
• I went from Friday until Sunday without smoking! It gave me a good time to heal up my mouth. I had bought cigarettes again today (not entirely sure why, but I don’t know where I’m headed yet) and I only smoked one cigarette since. I’d like to be done – I’m trying, and its a work in progress.

As you can see, I accomplished a lot this week. I wrote these out about 20 minute ago, as a whole. I didn’t write out every single day, or a little here and there like I should have. I really need to set aside a time everyday to write down what I had accomplished for that day – or ever few hours. That way I can REALLY feel the sense of accomplishment even for the little things.

Next is to figure out what mine and the kids schedules are going to be for the week. I need to figure out what chores I’m going to do what days – what I”m going to do by the hour. Set certain times for myself and the kids to do specific things.

… Needless to say, I’m pretty proud of how far I’ve come in the past few weeks. It’s a slow work in a progress, and I know I’m not FIXED yet… but hey, look how far I’ve come. I gotta think about the LITTLE things and appreciate them instead of looking at it in a LARGE picture.

So far, so good, right?