- Monday 12/14/10, I started my "new me" program today :) (it's not anything official, that's just what I'm calling all my new goals and schedule). I did REALLY well!! I am really happy with how the day went and what I accomplished. And that's saying a lot. It's been a while. I am so thankful to have a husband who holds to Priesthood so that I could receive the blessing I did last night. I really want to make this work so I asked for a blessing to help me pull it off. I'm hoping above all to be able to have His Spirit more strongly in my life.
- The kids worked SO HARD today!! It's the last day before pay day, and the last pay day before Christmas so the kids all wanted to cram in the jobs to earn money for presents. I can't believe how much they got done!! I did jack up the pay a little, just because I know how much fun it is to buy presents for people and I wanted them to have enough money, but they earned a TON!!! Hopefully we can afford it all :) HA! jk. So it was a good evening. Minus all the trips on the stairs. Our stairs do not have carpet on them and they're strange, not normal size, so the kids keep getting hurt on them. I can't get them to slow down. Tonight was especially bad, I think everyone took a turn falling and bruising up their shins. Not good. Does anyone have any ideas how to remedy this??? how to keep my kids from trying to run up them??
- I've been working out now for a week and I already got sick. This always happens when I start working out. I'm not sure if it's because of it, or just to simply make it harder. Either way, I'm not letting it stop me!!
- The kids have all been doing their shopping for their friends' gifts all week. I've been really proud of them with how thoughtful they are. And to use their own money.... it's really fun to watch their generosity. Noah has been getting a little jealous and finally asked if he could get his "Charlie friend" (that's his cousin) a gift. I couldn't say no, so I told him we would look for something for him! Well, from that minute on, EVERYTHING he saw at ANY store, he wanted for Charlie. Or I should say, "Charlie wanted". He needed to get him everything. It was adorable. And at one point I had to drag him out of the guitar store screaming, "CHARLIE WANTS A GUITAR!!!!!" It was hilarious. Needless to say we picked out something at our next stop so that the madness could end :) I'm glad he loves Charlie so much.
- Sunday 12-19-10 the RS lesson was about keeping the Sabbath Day Holy. It really hit me for some reason, and made me analyze how my Sundays are. I really do have a lot of work in this area. It's tough though because overall, we're not doing things to intentionally break the Sabbath. But in this lesson, something she said made me think that it's more about what you DO than about what you don't do. So anyway. Here are a list of some of the things I'm going to work on. 1. Getting things ready on Saturday. This means a clean house, clean, IRONED clothes, and everything found and put in a spot where we can get them quickly- especially shoes. We've done better with this in the past but somehow fallen behind. 9:00 church will help I'm sure. 2. No TV, no movies, no computer. 3. Read, read, read. Scriptures, The Friend, The Ensign, Journals, Scripture Pictures, anything that will help uplift. 4. Write letters, journal, and for the kids, draw pictures. 5. Focus more on what can bring the Spirit, rather than just eliminating the things that don't really. 6. Be happy, relax, possibly take a nap. 7. Easy Dinners. 8. Visit family. Hopefully these things will help me AND my family to enjoy the Sabbath more and enjoy keeping that commandment.
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