The other day I had my 2 girls "picking up" ... you know, getting all of the mess that they had taken out during the day back into their rooms and in the right spots. I overheard Lil Princess grumbling to Sunshine Girl, "Yeah, we're having to be servants to Mommy ... having to pick up all this stuff and work for her!" Guess we now have the new meaning to "child labor"???
Revival services have been just tremendous this week at Oakwood. Loving the speaker, the spirit of the people, and most of all how the Lord is convicting me of areas in my life that I need to change in. One song that the choir sang has been on my mind a lot, just a phrase or two here and there ... "May all who come behind me find me faithful ... may the footprints that we leave lead them to believe and the life we live inspire them to obey ... " (at least that's the way I think it goes). Anyway, I think of those who will come behind me, my children and possibly grandchildren one day far into the future ... Is the life I am living right now worthy of being copied? Am I being faithful to the One who loves me most and gave Himself for me? Where does my passion lie? Is the example I am setting one that I truly WANT to be setting? I fall so short in so many areas of my life ... sometimes I think I am a complete failure as a mom and that it will only be by God's grace that my girls turn out half normal. My prayer is that God will use his word to teach ME how to more closely follow Him, to ignite the PASSION in my life for Him and that my girls will see that in me and desire to follow me in my pursuit of God.
It is nearly midnight as I write, and my two girls are in Sunshine Girl's bedroom GIGGLING!!! UGGGGHHHH!!!! The girls have slept in there for nearly 3 weeks together and this is the first night that it has been like this ... I love to hear them giggle with each other, but I have a feeling the giggling at this time of night will make for grouchy, whiney girls tomorrow! Simple pleasure of my day is hearing them and I can't seem to make myself get up and get it under control!
Good Night, all!
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Inventions
The other day, my girls and I were with my mom in Columbia doing the thing that Sunshine Girl hates the most .... shopping AND trying on clothes for the fall. It was truly a double whammy for my oldest! (She must not have gotten her genes from her mother!) ;O Anyway, my 'Lil Princess is a Diva Queen and LOVES shopping ... could do it all day long if given the chance (and the money!).
But I deviate...
As we were in the dressing room with both girls, Sunshine Girl tried on all of her finds (which were not many considering she is moving from the "little girls" department to the 7-16 size, UGGGHHH!!!) and was growing quite bored with the entire experience. The chairs in the dressing room had these holes bored in the seats. She was on the floor and dug through my purse for a tablet of paper. She began tearing out sheets of paper and balling them up. I thought she was going to make a total mess, but she created a game for her and her Nana to play while waiting for me to finish with Lil Princess. The two balls of paper became the markers and the holes in the chair were the spaces on the game board. She then tore paper into squares and wrote numbers on them. They took turns drawing numbers and moving spaces until a winner was determined ... whoever made it to the end of the rows of holes first was declared the winner.
Who said homeschoolers were not creative? I was impressed that she had the mind to occupy herself instead of whine because it was taking the shopper so long to try on things!
P.S. After what felt like hours of shopping, we ended up with only 1 outfit for Lil Princess and 2 long sleeved t-shirts for Sunshine Girl. Not a good sign for their wardrobes this year!!!
But I deviate...
As we were in the dressing room with both girls, Sunshine Girl tried on all of her finds (which were not many considering she is moving from the "little girls" department to the 7-16 size, UGGGHHH!!!) and was growing quite bored with the entire experience. The chairs in the dressing room had these holes bored in the seats. She was on the floor and dug through my purse for a tablet of paper. She began tearing out sheets of paper and balling them up. I thought she was going to make a total mess, but she created a game for her and her Nana to play while waiting for me to finish with Lil Princess. The two balls of paper became the markers and the holes in the chair were the spaces on the game board. She then tore paper into squares and wrote numbers on them. They took turns drawing numbers and moving spaces until a winner was determined ... whoever made it to the end of the rows of holes first was declared the winner.
Who said homeschoolers were not creative? I was impressed that she had the mind to occupy herself instead of whine because it was taking the shopper so long to try on things!
P.S. After what felt like hours of shopping, we ended up with only 1 outfit for Lil Princess and 2 long sleeved t-shirts for Sunshine Girl. Not a good sign for their wardrobes this year!!!
Friday, September 10, 2010
Been feeling like I've got too many irons in the fire lately. My problem is (probably like most people) where/what do I let go? I guess I'll just keep them all hot and maybe soon the fire will die down and the irons will cool off some. :)
My kids and I hosted a back-to-school party the end of last week. It was a lot of work, but it turned out to be a lot of fun, too! My kids realized this time that parties don't "just happen", 'cause I made them help get everything ready for THEIR friends to join us!! We were running up to the last minute and my Sunshine Girl said, "Mommy, this sure is a lot of work for a party that isn't a REAL party!" I asked her why she thought this wasn't going to be a real party and her response (should have guessed it) was, "Well, because there aren't going to be any presents!" Gotta love them!
Anyway, we did some cute decorations and such, made a "back to school lunch" - PB & J, chips, carrots and cukes, applesauce and Oreos - and then turned the kids loose in the swimming pool. Eleven kids in my house at the same time! You'd have thought chaos would reign supreme, but the kids did WONDERFULLY ... they all played well together and I heard NO complaining or whining! :) THAT made me feel like everything was a success! Minus a few spills here and there, a couch cushion that got "painted" with lip gloss by one of the little ones, and a blue spot in Sunshine Girl's room that came from who knows where, the house really survived and we were able to get it back in order pretty quickly for our friends to come over on Saturday evening! Thank goodness it was a long weekend and I had Monday to try to recover from all the excitement before we started back to school on Tuesday! :)
My kids and I hosted a back-to-school party the end of last week. It was a lot of work, but it turned out to be a lot of fun, too! My kids realized this time that parties don't "just happen", 'cause I made them help get everything ready for THEIR friends to join us!! We were running up to the last minute and my Sunshine Girl said, "Mommy, this sure is a lot of work for a party that isn't a REAL party!" I asked her why she thought this wasn't going to be a real party and her response (should have guessed it) was, "Well, because there aren't going to be any presents!" Gotta love them!
Anyway, we did some cute decorations and such, made a "back to school lunch" - PB & J, chips, carrots and cukes, applesauce and Oreos - and then turned the kids loose in the swimming pool. Eleven kids in my house at the same time! You'd have thought chaos would reign supreme, but the kids did WONDERFULLY ... they all played well together and I heard NO complaining or whining! :) THAT made me feel like everything was a success! Minus a few spills here and there, a couch cushion that got "painted" with lip gloss by one of the little ones, and a blue spot in Sunshine Girl's room that came from who knows where, the house really survived and we were able to get it back in order pretty quickly for our friends to come over on Saturday evening! Thank goodness it was a long weekend and I had Monday to try to recover from all the excitement before we started back to school on Tuesday! :)
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