Posted in Everyday Life
I started the
Clean Home/ Clean Heart Challenge last night. The first thing you do is
to set household, children, and personal goals. You can see mine here . I made the CHCH Organizer Notebook
and the daily routine to put on the fridge. The daily routine is pretty
thorough and has kept me on track so far. Checklists and routines do
work well for me as long as I don't get off track. If a mess starts to
accumulate,especially piles of laundry,I tend to get overwhelmed and
give up. This is going to be the hardest thing I have to overcome. I'll
be posting my before pics to the website above later tonight.
Hopefully, in a few days I can start adding some after pics. Today's
verse to ponder:
Let all things be done decently and
in order. (1 Corinthinans
14:40)
I am also
working on 30-Day Husband Encouragement Challenge for
Wives. My goals for this program
are:
- You can't say anything
negative about your husband ...to your husband...or to
anyone
else, about your
husband. - Say
something that you admire or appreciate about your husband...to
your
husband...and to someone else, about your
husband!
Its been a little hard to bite my tongue
when it comes to my husband but it has made for little to no bickering.
I can't imagine not blogging about my frustrations with him when they
come up but its not allowed. Ya'll have to be my accountability
partners and if I start complaining about him or speaking negatively
please put me in check. Here is today's verse for thought from the
program:
"The heart of her husband
safely trusts her; so he will have no lack of gain. She
does
him good and not evil all the days of her life." Prov.
31:11-12
Posted in Everyday Life
In this week's Torah Portion we finished up the book of B'midbar(Numbers). It covered when the Israelites completed the 40 yrs. of wandering in the wilderness and how the promise land is to be divided up among the tribes of Israel. The kids worked through their booklet and learned this weeks Hebrew letter
,tet,pronounced like a T. The craft activity was to make desert critters. They were supposed to dip their fingers in paint and make fingerprints on construction paper to decorate to look like desert animals. It quickly turned into finger painting desert animals and a much bigger mess than I had anticipated. Cole pretty much painted himself...LOL. Here are a few pics....
Sorry, the pics are kind of blurry. I fixed them the best I could with PSP but I really need to buy a new digital camera!! Our last one got dipped in a glass of koolaid and now we only have the cell phone camera. As you can see it doesn't take very good photos.
Today we went to the Lake McKamy and although it was pretty hot it was suprisingly comfortable on top of the mountain. Jason walked down one of the trails beside the beach and fished for a bit while the kids and I swam. It didn't take him to long before he rejoined us because he spotted a snake along the edge of the water. We stayed for a couple of hours and had a really nice time. Here are some pics I snapped:
The Kids Cheesin' for the Camera
Juan, Hope, and Rachel
My Kids Playing In The Water
Cole and His Coat of Many Colors 
