Before I write about what I was planning on writing I just want to say that Laura and I have been blessed with the cutest, sweetest, happiest little girl in the world. It has been great being home with Jane. She finally has some routine and is doing absolutely wonderful. We love her.
Laura and I have been thinking a lot about a few different things. First, Laura and I really want to try and keep ourselves in good shape. It is easy as a medical student and as a stay at home mom to get caught up in the busyness of life and for exercise and activity to go down the drain. We also really want to do a better job of reading our scriptures regularly. Lastly, we have been trying for a long time to eat more healthy and to increase our arsenal of delicious meals. In order to do this we really want to cut back on the amount of eating out that we do. (Mainly fast food eating out. We probably were eating out once or twice ever two weeks, but it still was more than we wanted to do)
We have created a plan that will help us to accomplish our desires. The main reason I am writing this blog is to write out our thoughts so that we then have to stick to it.
The Plan
We bought a dry/erase calendar that hangs on our refrigerator. We keep track of the meals that we are eating on this board and we keep track of the amount of days we study our scriptures and exercise. Laura has her color of marker and I have mine. On the days we read we mark it down and on the days we exercise we mark it down.
Now, the key to the plan is what we do with this information. If we read all 7 days and we exercised 4 days then we get put $7.50 into our "date" fund. We get 1 mess up activity. meaning that if we only read six days and exercised 4 days then we still get our $7.50 but if we only read 6 days and exercised 3 days, no money. If we go all out and exercise 5 or 6 days of the week we get $10, but we have to read all 7 days. If we only read 6 days then we only get $7.50. This money is what we get to use for dates and eating out. It carries over from week to week. If there is something a little more expensive than we usually would spend on a date we have to go without, or just go on really cheap dates for a few weeks and then we will have enough.
We are not sure if this plan is going to work but we are going to try and pull it off this semester and then we might have to make changes to it.
I really think this is a genius plan and we are both excited to implement it into our daily routines.
