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You never know when you may have to hold down a kicking/screaming out of control child for an hour? You suddenly have lots of extra poo/pee laundry to do? You never know when your RAD child will decide to take an extra hour to do her chore EXXXXXTTTTRRRAAA SLLLLOOOOWWLY? You really don't feel like getting out of bed (because sometimes you don't feel like dealing with this!!)? I have owned the book "Managers of their Homes" by the Maxwells for two years now. I read it once and gave up! I am now re-reading it with the intention of making a daily schedule for our house. I have to admit that I am absolutely afraid to schedule my time! I am afraid I will be extra cranky if we get off schedule or something!! And, as you can see by the above examples, it would be very easy to get off schedule around here. I am praying about this while I read the book. On one hand, it would be wonderful if everyone knew what to do and when. It seems like things would be less chaotic and less things would get left undone. But it would also take a lot of getting used to and I'm not sure I'm up for such a big change right now!! Why? Honestly, I am always writing about Leona's challenges and saying that Josephine is doing pretty well. And she was, until she got "hormones" a few months ago. And now, for the week before her monthly cycle, she is a bit out of control (hitting, stealing little things, lying, things she hasn't done since the first few months she was here). That, and I've recently realized that she likes to "play dumb" with her schoolwork more than I originally thought! She doesn't like that I've figured this out. Twice this week, I got to hold her while she was kicking and screaming. Josephine is also not happy about her new sleeping arrangement. Bailey and Rebekah finally got to move into their own room. They were very tired of having their things abused (Josephine likes to throw things!), smelled up, etc! I can't say I blame them and they are older than Leona and Josephine-we never meant for them to stay 4 to a room for this long! Leona is not liking this arrangement either.....I'll give you 3 guesses as to how she is letting us know! Yep, you guessed it....peeing! Thankfully, she has given up on the pooping for now! This makes for a lot of changes......do I want to add the schedule yet???? Actually, I think I will still read the book and pray about it because I can see where it would be very helpful. I guess i would just need to have a plan for the times when, well, things don't go as planned! Please join us in prayer for Josephine as well as Leona! Thanks! |
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