Ramblings of a Christian Mom
I've had a hard time finding a chore system that works with my kids. For a while we used a chore wheel so that the kids would rotate with the different, but it just wasn't for us. Truthfully, I just had a hard time keeping consistent with it. Chores are not my forte. I recently borrowed a copy of Managers of Their Chores, by the Maxwells, from [More...]
I've never been really good at keeping up on the housework. In fact, I've never been any good at it. Except for a brief period in high school in which we would get paid for doing certain chores at home, and washing the dishes sometimes after supper, I was never required or taught how to really do housework. In college I did the odd dusting and [More...]
We had such a mild and short winter that I was kind of expecting one more snowfall. Maybe a few weeks ago, that is. By this point, I thought it would just get warmer and warmer. After all, we had summer weather in March for a week! Alas, the week after my hubby took the snow tires off the car, this is what we woke up to today. I [More...]
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 1 Corinthians 13:11 We spent the afternoon and evening visiting some friends of ours who have several older boys. The kids had a blast, and played really well. Tobi was totally loving the fact that [More...]
There have been many times when I'd wonder what the proper discipline would be for certain behaviors. I didn't want to over-react (though I struggle with that) and yet I didn't want to be too soft, either. As a result, my discipline methods tend to be not as consistent as they should be. This morning, as I was browsing through Raising Arrows, I [More...]
Small Space Organizing, by Kathryn Bechen Whether you're downsizing after the kids have moved out, or trying to make more room into your current home as your family grows, many of us are familiar with the feeling that we just don't have enough space for everything! I found this book mostly discussed how to make the most of your [More...]
Anger Management God's timing has a funny quality to it, doesn't it? It's always right. This past week wasn't a very good one, I'm afraid. A few nights I got very little sleep, and I became a grumpy Mama bear. Except that, instead of protecting my cubs like a good Mama bear does, I lashed out that them. So when I started working on this [More...]
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