As the name of this blog suggests we have been making a point to be more intentional about our lives this year. I've been working on formulating my goals and areas of focus to try to help me prioritize what I spend my time on during the day. I had not planned on doing this, but I found myself writing a checklist yesterday for when I got home from work. All the most important things that I needed to do. I am trying to learn to focus and manage my time better so I figured that would help.

Here's the list:

1. Clean kitchen

2. Supervise kids

                a. Clean living room

                b. Clean den

                c. clean hall

                d. Clean son's room

                e. Clean girl's room

3. Son's homework

                a. Tuesday's (I missed a day)

                b. Wednesday's

4. Move clothes/dressers (new furniture yay!)

5. Vacuum

                a. Girl's room

                b. Our room

6. Play Candy Land

7. Watch Star Wars (Episode II)

8. Have everyone write letters to Grandma

9. Have everyone write letters to Nana

Not everyone's letters got written, and we only watched half of Star Wars, but everything else on the list got done and I was able to stay focused the entire time. I have to say it was a real success. I'm going to start doing this more often for sure.

As you can see looking through the list there are a number of different priorities peeking through. Taking care of the house is obvious, but I am trying to put priority on spending time playing with the kids, and investing in other relationships. It doesn't take a lot of time, but even from the few days that I have been trying it I've already seen real results.