Nathan & Fiona, Kaisa & Everett – Family Blog

A new addition to my iGoogle reader is WebWorkerDaily. I’m not their target work-from-home professional but I still find very useful tips there. Recently the article “Developing a Logging Habit” made me think about my daily goals. Using suggested tool Joe’s Goals Fiona and I sat down to come up with some small daily goals we think will enrich our lives. Goal setting sometimes gets to be a wish list…I want to lose weight, it would be good if I did this, did that, I want a pony… and they start to lose their power.

To combat this “wish-list” goal setting we purposely chose a short list (3-4 goals) and will track our progress daily. You’ll be able to follow us along by clicking on the links to the right with our goal charts. Thomas S. Monson teaches “When performance is measured, performance improves. When performance is measured and reported back, the rate of improvement accelerates”. We hope to achieve our goals consistently and make them habit. Heber J. Grant stated “That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do. Not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our ability to do has increased”.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go to bed if I’m going to reach my goal of a 6:30 wake-up. I’ll slowly move earlier as my ability to do increases.

At Niki and Josh’s recent wedding extravaganza there were many times we were outside. It was all you could want – temperate, light breeze, a few sandflies…because we were in Medicine Hat! We enjoyed ribbon sandwiches, fruit, and soda. We think the problem was mostly the soda, which attracted the wasps. Mom swatted 30+, no joke! This one we trapped in the very thing that it was after…I guess you can have too much of a good thing

The magic of discovery is becoming more and more evident to us, mostly because of out 5 month old daughter (today!). Babies have a sense of wonder and infectious laughter that we seem to have lost as adults. Things as simple as mirrors are just the most amusing thing! Who is that in there?? How does that even work?? Seriously, do you know how mirrors work? Why do we see a mirror image instead of an un-mirror one? I must not have been paying enough attention during physics lessons, but I’m okay with keeping that small wonder a mystery (unless someone wants to do the research for me). When did we lose that awe for simple things? Let’s recapture some of that this week!

Especially at the beginning of the clip Kaisa’s cute laugh seems to say, “What the…!? I like her!”

We’re notoriously slow at putting video on our site. On August 25th Kaisa and Mom went swimming! Here’s a snippet of kicking from Kaisa.