Josh's First Goal

Goal:  In the last year, our family life has become very full - with having two children under age 2, my work schedule is intensive, active in ministries, and Natalie has returned to work (evening shifts) which leaves me on my own with the kids.  It is sometimes overwhelming, so I need to take a true inventory of what we have going on as a family and see if it is manageable as is, or if we can do some things to simplify.  Essentially, we need to BUDGET our time!

Action Steps:

1. Sit down with Natalie and write out our "typical" monthly MUST schedule.  It will include my usual work schedule, church activities, ministry prep time, blogging etc.  Basically, the things we can't avoid doing.  We can't include Natalie's schedule because it changes, but we can estimate how many evenings she usually works.
2. Then we need to determine how many date nights per month we need to have to maintain a healthy connection in our marriage.
3. This should show us how much available time is left in our time budget.  I know that when I have all those individual tasks floating around in my mind, I get overwhelmed.  But in actuality, many of those things don't require that much time.  So this will show me how much free time I actually have. 
4. If our budget shows that I don't have any free time to myself, then I need to find a way to add that.  I know that I can get a couple hours to myself each week by having the Roux's watch the girls.  If necessary, I will schedule that time in.