First to focus on the positive....
- A bed time for Mom has been implemented and I have stuck pretty close to it. There is a HUGE difference in being in bed by 10:30 instead of 1:30am! Who would have thought?!
- Mornings have become much better due to me getting up earlier and helping the girls a little more.
- The Marble Jar! I am attempting to teach the girls about teamwork. We now have a mason jar which each girl gets to put a marble in if :
-- she is ready BEFORE it is time to go.
-- she helps her sister succeed while getting ready. This could mean grabbing part of her school clothes when you are getting your own or could even mean deciding to leave your sister alone and let her get ready when normally you would distract her from what I have set for her to do.
-- they are sweet in the car to and from school
-- they willingly help with an evening chore and maintane a positive attitude while doing it.
So far we have discussed how if we do this every day, we will soon reach our goal of filling the jar and can have a party of some kind. As easily as marbles can be added to the jar they can be taken out. A time or two sisters have tattled on each other and after being reminded that their tattling could result in a sister removing a marble and slow our progress of filling the jar, we became MUCH more supportive of our sister and of our team!
- Chores! Guess what?! The girls agree that it is in fact NOT fair for mommy to have to do them all alone. We plan to spend 15 minutes at least every other night working as a team on some kind of chore. We were quite successful 3 nights so far and the girls loved listening to music and each earning a marble :D it's the little things, isn't it?
- Devotional time plus having my makeup on before I leave home! One of these is quite important and the other much less so but they have both made me feel so much better! I begin a new Bible study this Wednesday night at church which I plan to do in conjunction with my daily devotional.
- Diet & Exercise have been touched on, eating less and making some better choices. Cutting out soda also. BABY STEPS.
So now for the bitter part of bittersweet.
My poor phone. She must think I have died. She is in mourning - screen always in black. :'(
This is my choice though. And isn't it odd how we can go weeks or even months without communicating with someone who is important to us, but the moment it becomes intentional the degree of difficulty as well as thought put on it goes up exponentially!?
I wish I had some witty lyric to insert here as that is the only thing that feels appropriate but the lyrics have never been my strong suit. I just enjoy hearing them.
If this is all I have to complain about, I guess I am doing pretty fair.
