November 28, 2012: We bought a zoo..er...House!

What a day! We got the papers from our lending bank to go through and sign this morning (all 40+ pages!), and we also got the papers back from the selling bank. So, everything is now proceeding and we will have our zoo (house) in the next month. Yay! I also gave our landlords notification that we're leaving; I'm still a bit worried that they're going to try and cause us problems, keep our deposit, etc. -- even after five years of never being behind or missing a payment, I just don't feel like they appreciate us or want to help us in any way, which is sad.

After a long day of paperwork, editing articles, and running tests, I finally got around to getting some exercise by going on a walk with Becky and the boys...at around 9PM. Yikes! But it wasn't raining and we bundled them up and they were happy. Corbin also liked seeing the houses with Christmas lights, and we even saw a few real (rein?) deer out and about.

Final thing for this check in: I'm going to start giving one good scripture from the reading each day that I liked, and one quote from the other book(s) that I'm reading. So here we go with today's spiritual thought and uplifting material!

1 Nephi 19:7: "For the things which some men esteem to be of great worth, both to the body and soul, others set at naught and trample under their feet. Yea, even the very God of Israel do men trample under their feet (...) -- they set him at naught, and hearken not to the voice of his counsels." (The Book of Mormon)

The 5 Love Languages of Children: "The key to motivating a child is to get her to take responsibility for her own behavior. A child who will not or cannot take this responsibility cannot be motivated. A child who is taking responsibility for herself is motivated." (Pp. 152: Learning and the Love Languages)

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People: "Our unique human endowments lift us above the animal world. The extent to which we exercise and develop these endowments empowers us to fulfill our uniquely human potential. Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose." (Pp. 70: Be Proactive)

Daily Check Up:
1) Scripture study: Yes (15 pages per day through the end of the year: 1 Nephi 15-19, pp. 30-46)
2) Morning and evening prayers: Yes
3) 15+ minutes good book: Yes (The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, chapter 3, pp. 66-76)
4) 15 minutes of parenting/relationships/children book: Yes (Chapter 8 of The 5 Love Languages of Children, pp. 145-156)
5) Exercise for 30 minutes or more: Yes (late walk around the neighborhood)
6) One doTERRA blog post: Yes
7) Use doTERRA oils for something: Yes
8) doTERRA Leadership and Mentor calls (Mon-Fri): Yes
9) Talk to two people about doTERRA: One (Rick)
10) 15 minutes organizing office area: No (20 minutes yard work instead?)
11) Solid 8 hours (M-F) working at my job: Not really (House prep issues)
12) Early to bed, early to rise: No (1:30AM to 9AM)
13) One AnandTech pipeline or article: No (Edited article for Zach: AMD Trinity Buyer's Guide)