Monday Meanderings...

Well, here we go again! Last week was a doozy that involved some unforseen events that kept me from accomplishing much at all...ugh...I HATE that! We went to town(about 25 minutes one way) almost every day and 3 days Charlie worked at the shop in town and we took him his lunch so we could spend time with Daddy (was really GREAT ) but by the time we drove over and back and then the lunch hour and the extra money I spent....well, let's just say we spent too much and nothing got done! That's okay, though! We are grateful for the extra time together..it's just going to be a little bit tight this week and much more for me to do.

Anyway, enough rambling, here's my list:

*Bible Study:

Continuing in reading "The Ministry of Motherhood"....I just really need it right now. It helps my attitude sooooo much!

*Memory Verse: my memory verse comes from pg. 45 in this study:

James 3:10 (New International Version)

¹⁰Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers, this should not be.

*Husband Encouragement:

~well, why is this always hard for me?? This week I am going to try really hard to have a POSITIVE attitude no.matter.what!! I don't want my attitude to affect our family in a negative way any longer so I am focusing on changing this about myself...

~Going to be focusing on "A Woman's Rules to Live By" and I will be posting those in a little bit. A lot of these are taken from the book "Fascinating Womanhood" and "Created to be his help meet".....awesome books!!

~Keeping our home cozy and clean, the food delicious & ready so he doesn't have to cook or order in; teaching our children to be polite and well trained at the supper table.

*Train them up:

~Limit T.V. to 30 minutes a day-this has been getting WAY out of hand lately!

~Work on having the children work with me...they love to help so I should be cultivating this a lot more. I am going to work on teaching them by my words and actions that our home is a blessing and we should look at taking care of our things as a blessing not something that "has" to be done and we must do in order to have fun...we are going to have fun while we are taking care of our home!!

~Homeschool planning for this year-this includes (hopefully) a trip to my little sister's (hopefully) this weekend or next at the latest so we can do some major brainstorming & a wonderful trip to Mardel's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Can you tell that I REALLY want to go?!) Hi, Sissy!! :)

*Personal goal:

~to accomplish the majority of this list! ha! And, to have a gentle and quiet spirit....

*Must do: (Oh, so much!!)

~spend time in prayer before the early birds wake up (my girls) lol

~yard sale cleanout

~budget for our homeschool materials

~budget for the week

~buy 2 new tires:get tires rotated

*Zone:

~Charlie's desk (didn't get to it last week)

~garden needs to be weeded; fire ant killer put out

~laundry room (OH, MY) :(

~front porch and back yard

~swimming pool maintenance

*Menu: I will post my 2 week menu in just a bit or maybe later this evening


*Fun things:

~I would like to take the kids over to their grandparents house and let them ride their bikes over there with their cousins. They did that this weekend and had sooooo much fun!

~Eating outside one night this week on paper plates and playing afterward or just swimming....letting the girls decide.

~This weekend or next, a trip to see cousins upstate a ways!!!! We are really hoping this works out and the girls will absolutely LOVE this!! :) Pray that it doesn't rain anymore; if it rains too much, we can't go! (Charlie's job)

So, that's it! We'll see how it goes and hopefully, it will go better than next week!

~Jules