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It’s feeling fulfilled Friday on MamaBlogga! Here’s how it works:

1. Make a list of things that make you feel accomplished (but aren’t so huge that they take more than a day or a week)
2. During the week, try to focus on those things that help us feel accomplished
3. Report on feeling fulfilled Friday and enter the GWP to win an Amazon gift card!

Ugh. I’m flattened by a rough cold.

But we’ve had some good days this week. I’ve done pretty well on making healthy dinners (until tonight), and when my in-laws were here, we watched almost no TV (and they made me take a nap because I was sick, woot!). And I read The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and Catching Fire this week—two good books. AND I worked on school stuff with the kids at least a little.

AND I need to go lay back down.

How has your week been? How is your list coming?

Woot! It’s feeling fulfilled Friday on MamaBlogga, part of the October Group Writing Project! Here’s how it works:

1. Make a list of things that make you feel accomplished (but aren’t so huge that they take more than a day or a week)
2. During the week, try to focus on those things that help us feel accomplished
3. Report on feeling fulfilled Friday
4. Post on your blog and submit on the form for a chance to win an Amazon gift card in the GWP this month!

My week: this week we started a home-preschool co-op with a couple other families in our neighborhood. Rebecca’s still a little young for the class, but we’ve been working on the lessons at home. In fact, there’s even a curriculum for Rachel (who turned four months on Tuesday!). Her curriculum involves reading her a story, scriptures and a poem, listening to Mozart, playing games (this week, little piggies) and nursery rhymes.

For Rebecca and Hayden, they learn letters, numbers, shapes, colors and a little vocabulary. Hayden is excelling so far—for the first time, he’s really eager to write the letter A all by himself. Rebecca, on the other hand, enjoys spending time together, but of course a lot of the lessons don’t “stick.” She’s only two, though; I don’t expect her to learn everything.

Teaching the kids something new is on my accomplishment list—but, notably, their learning something is not. When I made my list, I thought of a lot more things than what I put on there. It’s hard not to feel accomplished when the kids are angels, do whatever I want, and prove that they are the geniuses I’m convinced they are. And of course it’s okay to have those things on your list—it’s your list. For me, though,those things are out of my control, and feeling accomplished—and fulfilled—is too important to leave up to the mercy of my children’s whims.

What do you think? Would/did you include things that are out of your control on your accomplishment list?

And don’t forget: Post about your FFF and enter to win!

The foundation of Feeling Fulfilled Fridays is focusing on what makes us feel accomplished, as inspired by a post on Seagull Fountain. I thought about things that make me feel accomplished (mostly as a mother but also a person), things that I can do in a relatively short amount of time, perhaps daily.

I hope that as I focus on these simple things, I’ll be able to build on that sense of accomplishment and at the end of the day, I’ll be able to look back and see that I did something.

So here’s my list!

• Read scriptures with the kids.
• Exercise.
• Make a healthy dinner and serve it before 7 PM.
• Play with the kids.
• Remain patient.
• Recording precious moments.
• Do laundry promptly.
• Teach the kids something new.
• Finish a good book.
• Reach other stories to the kids.
• Have a clean house.
• Enforce rules (or chores).
• Publish a good blog post.
• Go out with the kids, especially for something fun for them.
• Defuse or anticipate tantrums.

What makes you feel super accomplished? Blog your list for an entry in the October Group Writing Project!