It is time to re-organize and get back on track.  God has blessed me with being a wife and mother.  I have friends that may have more than I have and I have friends that may have less than I have. One thing we all have is Jesus as our BEST FRIEND and that is something I can cherish.  I have been blessed with what I do have and for that I am thankful.  We are not in this world to compare and worry about what we have or don't have.  We are to be thankful for what we have and know that God has blessed us.  My friends and I do not compare what we have or don't have.  We are there for each other.  If one of us has something we can share we do that.  After all, isn't that what Jesus would do?  All we have belongs to Jesus and it is only in our care while on this earth.  What we do with it and how we act affects our eternity.  Just like it says in Martina McBrides song, "Blessed", I have been blessed.

With the economy the way it is and with my family growing older daily (LOL), I need to start on re-organization.  I have found out that what works for one family won't necessarily work for another famiy.  Also, I have said all along that every person (child) is different just as every situation is different.  So, what I may expect from one of my children I may expect something else from another depending on the child and the circumstances. I also haven't been able to do the things I was able to do when I was younger so I must just do what I can and go from there.  I do believe that a family should help each other out especially if they live together.  The Bible talks about two or more helping each other and all things working together.

I am in the process of working on a plan that is beneficial to the family.  Gone are the days when the kids were little and you could actually get them to do things around the house without too much whinning and complaining.  Gone are the days when the messes were small.  I have come to find out the bigger and older they are, the bigger the messes and the less they do to help.  Everyone is so busy getting on with their lives.  I need to be the mom and remind everyone that we are a family and we will work together. (No one told me what it was like when kids get older)

I will be working on my Re-Organization plan this summer and I hope to add it to my listing as soon as I have it in place.  I will then tweak it as I go along and hopefully it will be beneficial and a blessing to others too.

 They say that Bad Habits are easy to develop and hard to break.  Well, Good Habits take work and time to develop.  All in all, in developing Good Habits you are improving your life. 

I heard the other day about rights and priveledges.  We have rights such as: a place to sleep, protection from danger, food to eat, an education and we have privledges such as: reading books, playing games, using the computer, etc. With this in mind I have told my kids that we will use that as a base.  They have certain rights and we will list them.  They can earn privledges and we will list them.  They cannot loose their rights but they can loose their privledges. 

I am also working on a monthly menu and planning on purchasing groceries and making up at least partial meals to be frozen so that when I am really busy we can still eat at a decent time of day. 

My hope is to get myself and my family a little more scheduled so we can be more organized. 

These are just a few of the things I am starting to work on. I have a friend that is also working on the same stuff. We plan to write up recipes and teach our 13 year olds how to cook and bake also. I am please to say that my daughter made our whole meal the other night.  She did an excellent job and was so pleased with herself.  I'm looking forward to teaching her more and having her make more meals.  We also plan on sharing our plans with each other and helping each other to make improvements and add or take away from the plans wherever necessary.

We will be implementing these things this summer and hopefully, by the time school starts we can be fairly organized to get our school year started off to a good start.

I believe if we can work together to implement our Re-Organization it will be a great benefit and blessing to the whole family.