Smart Habit Saturday

Congratulations to Lucy at An Ordinary Mom for winning the drawing for April! Go check out the drawing if you haven't already.

I have another book to give away to SHS participants in May. It's called Speed Cleaning by Jeff Campbell and of course I will make you a bag to put it in. I love the book and I love his products at The Clean Team. I need to do a whole post on speed cleaning products so I can tell you which ones I use. If you have any cleaning questions you can get them answered on his website.

Participate in SHS for 3 out of 4 weeks to qualify for the drawing. I'm going to treat you like I do my kids and make you do all the work. If you want to be entered in the drawing then e-mail me the links to your entries when you're done with three of them. That makes it so much easier for me and I'm all about my life being easier!

If you are new to SHS find out all about it here: Getting Started with SHS. Click here to read more SHS posts. Please don't forget to link back to this post so your readers can find out more about SHS.

It's been another sick week so instead of doing craft projects with my kids in the afternoons I have been sleeping! I've had this thing for three weeks now and just when I start feeling better for a few days it gets worse again. We did do projects twice and just doing that much makes me feel like I should get a Mother of the Week award! See how new habits make us feel good about ourselves?

I have also been secretly working on a new habit this week, going to bed early. Can you believe it? I can't! So many of you have been working on it this year but I knew I would fail so I didn't try. I finally feel like it's a habit I'm ready for. I went to a Leadership Education retreat last weekend and was inspired to get working on it. (That's why my post was so early last week. I had to get it posted before I left. And it's also why I didn't get a chance to visit everyone else's posts. Sorry!)

My goal is to be in bed by 9:00 to read and be asleep by 10:30. I hope to start getting up at 6:00 (someday 5:00?) so I can spend a couple hours writing and studying before my kids get up. I managed to be up by 6:30 a few days but the other days I felt like I needed all the sleep I could get. I'm going to keep working on my early to bed, early to rise habit next week. I think if I can manage this habit I will finally feel like a responsible grownup instead of a lazy bum who can't get out of bed before 8:00 a.m.!

Here are the rest of the habits I have been working on this year. Some of them are habits and some of them still need a lot of work but all of them have improved my life!

Crafts with kids - Working on it.
Using Crock Pot - Doing better.
Paperwork, again, and again - Doing better.
Have lunch ready by Noon - Good
Turn Off Computer during chores - Surprisingly I am doing this really well.
Become a Dresser, Playing games with my kids and reading my Church Magazine - I ran out of magazines. I'm all caught up with the back issues and going through withdrawls!
Kitchen and studio clutter free - Good
Clear Counters - Good
Clear Desk - Good
Review Planner - Habit
Daily Prayer - Habit
Clean Toilet - Good

*Important - Please link to your individual SMART Habit post instead of your home page or else my Obsessive Compulsive Disorder will have to spend time fixing the links. Here is how you link to an individual post if you’ve never done it before: Right click on the date at the bottom of the post you want to link to (or the post title depending on where you blog) click “Copy Shortcut” and then paste it into Mr. Linky.