Need a writing assignment for your children this week (or whenever)?
How about a Thank You letter to President Bush?
You can do this online at Mission1Accomplishe d.http://www.mission1 accomplished. com/
They will be compiling them into nice leather-bound volumes and presenting them to the George W Bush Presidential Library and Museum.
22 January, 2009
Today we marched........
I don't have any pictures this year - my teens camera was not along - but we never the less made the trip to downtown and marched for the anniversary of Roe v Wade.
Last year we had just gotten to town, and had been here only a couple days. We knew nobody, but I had a lady from email told me that they would be there, and described what she would be wearing. We walked up to a massive crowd, and she was the first person I saw. Thank you Jesus, for favors granted. A year later, we are terrific friends and so are our daughters who are only 2 weeks apart in age.
It was wonderful today as I walked around, saying the rosary with our new friends.
This city has a wonderful, thriving group of Catholic homeschoolers - lovely ladies, all. We have lots of new friends, and have been welcomed with open arms and hearts. We are involved in activities, and I couldn't have laid out our course better.
At our march for life, there were no oposing views people this year. It was odd I thought, there were loads of them last year. But last year was my first pro-life event - I was alway to afraid to go.....
Last year we had just gotten to town, and had been here only a couple days. We knew nobody, but I had a lady from email told me that they would be there, and described what she would be wearing. We walked up to a massive crowd, and she was the first person I saw. Thank you Jesus, for favors granted. A year later, we are terrific friends and so are our daughters who are only 2 weeks apart in age.
It was wonderful today as I walked around, saying the rosary with our new friends.
This city has a wonderful, thriving group of Catholic homeschoolers - lovely ladies, all. We have lots of new friends, and have been welcomed with open arms and hearts. We are involved in activities, and I couldn't have laid out our course better.
At our march for life, there were no oposing views people this year. It was odd I thought, there were loads of them last year. But last year was my first pro-life event - I was alway to afraid to go.....
17 January, 2009
Daybook
In my list of bookmarked webpages, I have a folder called "Things I think I need to buy". This allows me to bookmark the pages for all the nifty things I find on the internet. Most often, I see a product recommended by another mom and bang! another must have item for my homeschool library.
Right now I am rereading "Laying Down the Rails" (from here: ttp://simplycharlottemason.com/)
This has been one of those really fabulous books that I go back to again and again.
Now I want to purchase this book/DVD set:
http://simplycharlottemason.com/books/all-day-charlotte-mason-seminar-on-dvd/
Oh, and this one too-
http://simplycharlottemason.com/books/laying-down-rails-habits-workshop/
and possibly this one-
http://simplycharlottemason.com/books/planning-your-charlotte-mason-education/
How much overlap would there be I wonder? I think it might be fun to host a mom's day out at my house and watch them with my homeschooling mommy friends here.
I have also thought about doing that with the IEW Teaching Writing Structure and Style videos. (Already own this)
Or the Konos video's (own this too, but the ladies I know here don't really seem to be the unit study types).
I guess it is just time to plan it, send out the invites and just do it. Another Nike moment in my new year.
I am looking forward to listening to Cindy Rushton's Ultimate Women's Expo at the end of the month. I love her talks, she is so positive. http://ultimate-womens-expo.com/
DH and my lovely children gave me and ipod for Mother's Day last year. The single best gift ever, I think.
Right now I am rereading "Laying Down the Rails" (from here: ttp://simplycharlottemason.com/)
This has been one of those really fabulous books that I go back to again and again.
Now I want to purchase this book/DVD set:
http://simplycharlottemason.com/books/all-day-charlotte-mason-seminar-on-dvd/
Oh, and this one too-
http://simplycharlottemason.com/books/laying-down-rails-habits-workshop/
and possibly this one-
http://simplycharlottemason.com/books/planning-your-charlotte-mason-education/
How much overlap would there be I wonder? I think it might be fun to host a mom's day out at my house and watch them with my homeschooling mommy friends here.
I have also thought about doing that with the IEW Teaching Writing Structure and Style videos. (Already own this)
Or the Konos video's (own this too, but the ladies I know here don't really seem to be the unit study types).
I guess it is just time to plan it, send out the invites and just do it. Another Nike moment in my new year.
I am looking forward to listening to Cindy Rushton's Ultimate Women's Expo at the end of the month. I love her talks, she is so positive. http://ultimate-womens-expo.com/
DH and my lovely children gave me and ipod for Mother's Day last year. The single best gift ever, I think.
16 January, 2009
Daybook
So, another day in paradise draws to a close.
My journal has gone AWOL, and I can't seem to find it anyplace. My house is getting more organzed by the day, though.
I was a bit stressed out with the new year; we have my in-law's visiting. I wanted to start with a bang......... new habits, new schedule, and new attitudes. That is a really silly thing to attempt while entertaining company. Maybe it was my lesson for the New Year. Today's lesson? Relationships. I don't want my children miss out on the opportunity to spend time with their grandparents. Relationships are what matter, people matter, living and learning is what matters. Not some forced idea of sitting in our desks and "doing school". So, I have relaxed (working on it) and encouraged the love affair my children and mother and father in law are tending to. G2 has had a wonderful time "working" with his pawpaw.
This I love.
So, another New Years resolution: seize the day, build relationships and learn in our living. Don't miss out on the 'now' trying 'plan for the future'. These are the precious relationships that form us.
My journal has gone AWOL, and I can't seem to find it anyplace. My house is getting more organzed by the day, though.
I was a bit stressed out with the new year; we have my in-law's visiting. I wanted to start with a bang......... new habits, new schedule, and new attitudes. That is a really silly thing to attempt while entertaining company. Maybe it was my lesson for the New Year. Today's lesson? Relationships. I don't want my children miss out on the opportunity to spend time with their grandparents. Relationships are what matter, people matter, living and learning is what matters. Not some forced idea of sitting in our desks and "doing school". So, I have relaxed (working on it) and encouraged the love affair my children and mother and father in law are tending to. G2 has had a wonderful time "working" with his pawpaw.
This I love.
So, another New Years resolution: seize the day, build relationships and learn in our living. Don't miss out on the 'now' trying 'plan for the future'. These are the precious relationships that form us.
14 January, 2009
12 January, 2009
Crochet notes
I am looking through the www.crochetpatterncentral.com patterns for valentine/heart type projects. I love these little hearts:
http://belladia.typepad.com/bella_dia/2008/02/sweet-heart-cro.html
I am really wanting to make an afgan for DLF, I am hoping it will be something he can keep on his bed and think of me at least some of the time. He isn't returning my calls or texts currently. I need to mail his Christmas gift, but wanted to see if he preferred a visa gift card or cash.
I will just send a visa gift card I suppose, it will work for most anything he likes.
I do hope and pray that he comes out next summer to visit. I miss him so much.
THis is totally fun and I want to make one: http://www.freecraftunlimited.com/crochet-sweetheart-pillow.html but, then I have to fight feeling like my grandmother. When I was young, I remember looking at some of the things she made thinking "What in the world was she thinking"?. Now, I see these little patterns, and feel that relaxing calm that comes from making something with my hands, and think to myself "How cute is that!?! Then I make up the silly little pattern for the thingy that I know my children think "What in the world was she thinking?" I will say this for myself. I don't make them crazy things and then expect them to wear them and get upset if they don't. Mostly, I let them choose something if they want me to crochet for them. That way noone gets their feelings hurt.
I will say on my own behalf, that I am quite colorblind (reaffirmed yet again at my latest eye appointment by a lovely lady eye doctor that tested me because "women are very rarely colorbli nd" - yes, I already knew that..........) so, my dear love of bright colors and such means I am quite the "artsy" type to most of the people who know me.
So, I printed out a few patterns (I have a notebook that holds my patterns, it is just a 3 ring binder, and some page protecters for the little do-dads I pick up from here and there, you know those free patterns at the store, and then there was the crochet calendar I got a few years ago).
I will try to post a picture when I choose and finish my project.
http://belladia.typepad.com/bella_dia/2008/02/sweet-heart-cro.html
I am really wanting to make an afgan for DLF, I am hoping it will be something he can keep on his bed and think of me at least some of the time. He isn't returning my calls or texts currently. I need to mail his Christmas gift, but wanted to see if he preferred a visa gift card or cash.
I will just send a visa gift card I suppose, it will work for most anything he likes.
I do hope and pray that he comes out next summer to visit. I miss him so much.
THis is totally fun and I want to make one: http://www.freecraftunlimited.com/crochet-sweetheart-pillow.html but, then I have to fight feeling like my grandmother. When I was young, I remember looking at some of the things she made thinking "What in the world was she thinking"?. Now, I see these little patterns, and feel that relaxing calm that comes from making something with my hands, and think to myself "How cute is that!?! Then I make up the silly little pattern for the thingy that I know my children think "What in the world was she thinking?" I will say this for myself. I don't make them crazy things and then expect them to wear them and get upset if they don't. Mostly, I let them choose something if they want me to crochet for them. That way noone gets their feelings hurt.
I will say on my own behalf, that I am quite colorblind (reaffirmed yet again at my latest eye appointment by a lovely lady eye doctor that tested me because "women are very rarely colorbli nd" - yes, I already knew that..........) so, my dear love of bright colors and such means I am quite the "artsy" type to most of the people who know me.
So, I printed out a few patterns (I have a notebook that holds my patterns, it is just a 3 ring binder, and some page protecters for the little do-dads I pick up from here and there, you know those free patterns at the store, and then there was the crochet calendar I got a few years ago).
I will try to post a picture when I choose and finish my project.
11 January, 2009
quote - youth
"The principal trap that the Devil sets for young people is idleness. This is a fatal source of all evil. Don't let there be any doubt in your mind that man is born to work, and when he doesn't do so, he's out of his element and in great danger of offending God." (St. John Bosco)
2009 Resolutions - Updates
More to do's -
78. Daily Mass - attend once per week to start. Habit by year end.
79. Schedule work time for volunteering at WHC - time to be spent in research and grant writing.
80. There was something else - I forget.....
Resolutions # 1 & 2 are finished and handed in today.
My mother and father in law are here visiting here. They will be with us another week. Then my parents will be coming for a visit. I will be doing school with the kids throughout these visits because we cannot get out of the habit of doing school. Kicking back in and reclaiming good habits is just too hard!
78. Daily Mass - attend once per week to start. Habit by year end.
79. Schedule work time for volunteering at WHC - time to be spent in research and grant writing.
80. There was something else - I forget.....
Resolutions # 1 & 2 are finished and handed in today.
My mother and father in law are here visiting here. They will be with us another week. Then my parents will be coming for a visit. I will be doing school with the kids throughout these visits because we cannot get out of the habit of doing school. Kicking back in and reclaiming good habits is just too hard!
Beginning Ordinary Time
Every smile makes you a day younger.
Chinese proverb
"It is not fitting that the servant should be applauded in His Master's house." (Pope St. Pius X)
"...those who wage war on religion seem to show more energy than those who repel it." (Pope Leo XIII, "Inimica Vis", 1892 A.D.)
"Neglect of the elderly or their outright rejection are intolerable. Their presence in the family, or at least their closeness to the family in cases where limited living space or other reasons make this impossible, is of fundamental importance in creating a climate of mutual interaction and enriching communication between the different age-groups. It is therefore important to preserve, or to re-establish where it has been lost, a sort of 'covenant' between generations. In this way parents, in their later years, can receive from their children the acceptance and solidarity which they themselves gave to their children when they brought them into the world. This is required by obedience to the divine commandment to honour one's father and mother (cf. Ex 20:12; Lev 19:3). But there is more. The elderly are not only to be considered the object of our concern, closeness and service. They themselves have a valuable contribution to make to the Gospel of life. Thanks to the rich treasury of experiences they have acquired through the years, the elderly can and must be sources of wisdom and witnesses of hope and love." (Pope John Paul II, 1995)
I found a new website with tons of quotes today - Look here: www.mycatholicsource.com
"For the LORD sets a father in honor over his children; a mother's authority he confirms over her sons." (Sirach 3:2)
"He who honors his father atones for sins; he stores up riches who reveres his mother." (Sirach 3:3-4)
"With your whole heart honor your father; your mother's birthpangs forget not. Remember, of these parents you were born; what can you give them for all they gave you?" (Sirach 7:27-28)
"If you have sons, chastise them; bend their necks from childhood." (Sirach 7:23)
"If you have daughters, keep them chaste, and be not indulgent to them." (Sirach 7:24)
"An unruly child is a disgrace to its father; if it be a daughter she brings him to poverty." (Sirach 22:3)
"He who loves his son chastises him often, that he may be his joy when he grows up." (Sirach 30:1)
"He who spoils his son will have wounds to bandage, and will quake inwardly at every outcry. A colt untamed turns out stubborn; a son left to himself grows up unruly. Pamper your child and he will be a terror for you, indulge him and he will bring you grief. Share not in his frivolity lest you share in his sorrow, when finally your teeth are clenched in remorse. Give him not his own way in his youth, and close not your eyes to his follies. Bend him to the yoke when he is young, thrash his sides while he is still small, Lest he become stubborn, disobey you, and leave you disconsolate. Discipline your son, make heavy his yoke, lest his folly humiliate you." (Sirach 30:7-13)
10 January, 2009
Just checkn in..........
Tomorrow is the Baptism of the Lord.
I have our mass sheets all printed out, instead of trying to cram it in tomorrow morning.
I go to these 2 places for mass sheets:
The Open Wednesday page: http://www.darientel.net/~schoettl/openwed/ she is so fabulous!
Catholic mom for Sunday mass sheets - coloring, lesson plans and so on.
This is a new to me site with excellent printables:
http://www.fcpeace.com/friends/main_english.htm
I finished our 1st semester report cards and have them all ready for Jody tomorrow at mass. This is a new thing for me with Fl laws. Tx was quite different.
My mother and father in law are visiting, and MJB took 3 vacation days to spend time with them. It is a real dog pound around here now. Belle (their dog) is ENOURMOUS. I will try to pop up a picture.
I have almost all of Christmas down and have gotten the Valentine rubbermaid out of the attic. I love, love, LOVE St. Valentine's day. All pink, and red and hearts and lacy. LOVE IT!
Next week, MJB returns to work, and we return to school. We sure can't take off January for company - reforming good habits would be a booger bear.
I ordered "Holy Papers" ebook from CHC. Love it, too.
More later.
I have our mass sheets all printed out, instead of trying to cram it in tomorrow morning.
I go to these 2 places for mass sheets:
The Open Wednesday page: http://www.darientel.net/~schoettl/openwed/ she is so fabulous!
Catholic mom for Sunday mass sheets - coloring, lesson plans and so on.
This is a new to me site with excellent printables:
http://www.fcpeace.com/friends/main_english.htm
I finished our 1st semester report cards and have them all ready for Jody tomorrow at mass. This is a new thing for me with Fl laws. Tx was quite different.
My mother and father in law are visiting, and MJB took 3 vacation days to spend time with them. It is a real dog pound around here now. Belle (their dog) is ENOURMOUS. I will try to pop up a picture.
I have almost all of Christmas down and have gotten the Valentine rubbermaid out of the attic. I love, love, LOVE St. Valentine's day. All pink, and red and hearts and lacy. LOVE IT!
Next week, MJB returns to work, and we return to school. We sure can't take off January for company - reforming good habits would be a booger bear.
I ordered "Holy Papers" ebook from CHC. Love it, too.
More later.
06 January, 2009
Thought for the Day
Author Unknown
-Give up complaining . . . focus on gratitude.
-Give up harsh judgments . . . think kind thoughts.
-Give up worry . . . trust divine providence.
-Give up discouragement . . . be full of hope.
-Give up bitterness . . . turn to forgiveness.
-Give up hatred . . . return good for evil.
-Give up anger . . . practice patience.
-Give up pettiness . . . put on maturity.
-Give up gloom. . . enjoy the beauty that is around me.
-Give up gossiping . . . control my tongue.
-Give up complaining . . . focus on gratitude.
-Give up harsh judgments . . . think kind thoughts.
-Give up worry . . . trust divine providence.
-Give up discouragement . . . be full of hope.
-Give up bitterness . . . turn to forgiveness.
-Give up hatred . . . return good for evil.
-Give up anger . . . practice patience.
-Give up pettiness . . . put on maturity.
-Give up gloom. . . enjoy the beauty that is around me.
-Give up gossiping . . . control my tongue.
05 January, 2009
quotes, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Reflection
Celebrate the feast of Christmas every day, even every moment in theinterior temple of your spirit, remaining like a baby in the bosom of theheavenly Father, where you will be reborn each moment in the Divine Word,Jesus Christ. -- St. Paul of the Cross
"Live simply, so that all may simply live."St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
For Reflection:Today, I will do an examination of conscience according to this quoteand ask myself these questions: "What two virtues are implicit in thisquote?" "To what extent has a consumerist mentality prevented me fromliving these virtues?" What positive steps can I take, beginningtoday, to remedy this situation?"
"Live simply, so that all may simply live."St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
For Reflection:Today, I will do an examination of conscience according to this quoteand ask myself these questions: "What two virtues are implicit in thisquote?" "To what extent has a consumerist mentality prevented me fromliving these virtues?" What positive steps can I take, beginningtoday, to remedy this situation?"
04 January, 2009
2009 Resolutions/To Do List & so on
In what does my life consist except 2 things:
1. Active duties &
2. Passive Circumstances
The first is under my control - I will do these in God's name. The second is outside my control... to these I must submit in God's name. I must consider only the present and leave the past to Gods justice, the future to God's providence.
Perfection of personality does not consist in knowing God's plan, but in submitting to it as it reveals itself in the circumstances of life.
There is really one shortcut to sanctity - the one Mary chose in the visitation, the one our Lord chose in Gethsamane, abandonment to Divine Will.
Jesus, be the life and light of my soul.
1. Grades to Jody for the semester
2. Check to see what FL requirements are for graduation
3. Check FCCJ for cosmotology school for G1
4. Daily exercise - 4 days per week, I'd really prefer it e six days a week, but I feel like 4x a week is more practical and doable.
5. Update my daily schedule & chore reoutines
6. Implement schedule & chore routines
7. Mom makes breakfast and does morning chores with E, M, G2 Cut G1 out of the morning activities.
8. Family evening prayer time, nightly rosary
9. God to bed earlier -
do I want to go to bed at 10pm or 10:30? Maybe start with 10:30 and move to 10 in a few weeks? Nah....... Go all out.
10. Maintain my quitting smoking.....
Do not start back
11. Healthy living -
more exercise, and get a more active lifestyle into place.
12. DO THINGS
13. Nature walks
14. Nature Study Notebooks
15. Study Botany
16. Study Florida History
17. Florida field trips
18. Read aloud time - daily time (30-60 min) spent reading aloud to the children.
19. Tea Time
I think it is doable to start with a once a week tea time in the afternoon with the kiddies after quiet time, I'd like to have it centered on the liturgical year. So my planning would need to probably be a month at a time to keep ahead of the feasts.
20. Monthly Planning
I want to start doing a frame or skeleton of planning on a regular monthly basis again. So my basic school plans and liturgical year plans in the home are laid out and in place ready to put into practice.
Then I can plan out the field triopos, liturgical feasts and stay on track with our scholastics.
21. Learn Spanish
I want to buy Rosetta Stone (again) and start learning Spanish with the kids.
22. Latin & Spanish
Can we do Spanis and Latina Christiana
23. Be consistent with changes! Develop this skill
24. Wake up earlier and get going in the morning.
Get up and move! I waste too much time drinking coffee and 'meditating' in the morning doing nothing much.
25. Conquer my lazyness
26. blog more than twice this year :0)
27. Continue the habit of keeping my school journal for round 2
28. Bedtime routines for round 2 that include quick bedroom pickupand choosing next days clothing.
29. Morning rountines for round 2 that I do with them, and check up behind.
a. breakfast
b. person hygiene
c. chores
d. morning prayers
e. school
30. Paint the diningroom
31. Paint the kitchen
32. Paint the hallway
33. Paint our bedroom
34. Paint our bathroom
35. Paint the laundry room
36. Mural in the laundry room
37. Paint hallway up the stairs
38. Hang curtain in hall bathroom
39. Decorate the schoolroom, do I want paint or what?
40. Handcrafts..........
41. Teach girls to sew
42. teach girls to crochet
MOM Crafts
43. Decide on and make 2009 Christmas gifts
44. Do more sewing
45. I want to make jammies
46. I want to work in a quilt
47. I want to crochet an afgan for D
48. I want to make a couple wall hangings from my old postcard collection
49. Make scrapbook for MJB for our anniversary
50. Budget - I want to get better control in this area
51. Money to my 2 committments consistently
53. Charities biweekly
54. Stop purchasing things I do not NEED
55. Buy needs, not wants, learn the difference
56. Keep up with reading log
57. Read a book about personal finance and saving for the year.
58. Learn to live beneath my means
59. Be supportive in making good financial decisions for our family...........
60.. Help with family finances by taking some of the heavy lifting in this area. Become involved and ask where I can help.
61. Plant a garden, grow some veggies
Do the research and reading needed for this project
62. Find out about farmers market here
63. Find out about food co-ops here
64. Menu planning, weekly and keep in planner
65. DO THINGS
Stop planning and start doing more
66. Simplify my life,
Less stuff
67. Morning's for Mom
68 Prayer time with MJB, breviary, bible, readings about the Saints.
69. Eveing Prayer time
Family Rosary
70. School Plans
Monthly Themes, Plans, lessons, books and so forth for round 2
71. Turn off the TV
I want t ochange the way our family spends the evenings - not just watching the television every single evening. I want to introduce some new ways to spend our time together. MJB is all for it in theory, so it is just what I do with it from here............
IDEAS FOR WHAT TO DO
72. Games together
73. Crafts together
74. Bike riding
So, what else?
75. Clean & Purge girls room
76. Clean & purge G2 room
77. Laundry routine
Implementk a daily rountine of keeping up with the laundry. Ironing done at a specific time each week and kept current for MJB.
Well, that will do it for today. I will add more as I think of it.
#75, and #76 are done.
Matt 5:48
Be ye perfect as your Heavenly Father is perfect.
St. Francis de Sales
"We must begin with a strong and constant resolution to give ourselves wholly to God, professing to Him, in a tender, loving manner, from the bottom of our hearts, that we intend to be His without any reserve, and then must often go back and renew this same resolution.
The virtue I am studying this month is "perfection".........................
+JMJ+
1. Active duties &
2. Passive Circumstances
The first is under my control - I will do these in God's name. The second is outside my control... to these I must submit in God's name. I must consider only the present and leave the past to Gods justice, the future to God's providence.
Perfection of personality does not consist in knowing God's plan, but in submitting to it as it reveals itself in the circumstances of life.
There is really one shortcut to sanctity - the one Mary chose in the visitation, the one our Lord chose in Gethsamane, abandonment to Divine Will.
Jesus, be the life and light of my soul.
1. Grades to Jody for the semester
2. Check to see what FL requirements are for graduation
3. Check FCCJ for cosmotology school for G1
4. Daily exercise - 4 days per week, I'd really prefer it e six days a week, but I feel like 4x a week is more practical and doable.
5. Update my daily schedule & chore reoutines
6. Implement schedule & chore routines
7. Mom makes breakfast and does morning chores with E, M, G2 Cut G1 out of the morning activities.
8. Family evening prayer time, nightly rosary
9. God to bed earlier -
do I want to go to bed at 10pm or 10:30? Maybe start with 10:30 and move to 10 in a few weeks? Nah....... Go all out.
10. Maintain my quitting smoking.....
Do not start back
11. Healthy living -
more exercise, and get a more active lifestyle into place.
12. DO THINGS
13. Nature walks
14. Nature Study Notebooks
15. Study Botany
16. Study Florida History
17. Florida field trips
18. Read aloud time - daily time (30-60 min) spent reading aloud to the children.
19. Tea Time
I think it is doable to start with a once a week tea time in the afternoon with the kiddies after quiet time, I'd like to have it centered on the liturgical year. So my planning would need to probably be a month at a time to keep ahead of the feasts.
20. Monthly Planning
I want to start doing a frame or skeleton of planning on a regular monthly basis again. So my basic school plans and liturgical year plans in the home are laid out and in place ready to put into practice.
Then I can plan out the field triopos, liturgical feasts and stay on track with our scholastics.
21. Learn Spanish
I want to buy Rosetta Stone (again) and start learning Spanish with the kids.
22. Latin & Spanish
Can we do Spanis and Latina Christiana
23. Be consistent with changes! Develop this skill
24. Wake up earlier and get going in the morning.
Get up and move! I waste too much time drinking coffee and 'meditating' in the morning doing nothing much.
25. Conquer my lazyness
26. blog more than twice this year :0)
27. Continue the habit of keeping my school journal for round 2
28. Bedtime routines for round 2 that include quick bedroom pickupand choosing next days clothing.
29. Morning rountines for round 2 that I do with them, and check up behind.
a. breakfast
b. person hygiene
c. chores
d. morning prayers
e. school
30. Paint the diningroom
31. Paint the kitchen
32. Paint the hallway
33. Paint our bedroom
34. Paint our bathroom
35. Paint the laundry room
36. Mural in the laundry room
37. Paint hallway up the stairs
38. Hang curtain in hall bathroom
39. Decorate the schoolroom, do I want paint or what?
40. Handcrafts..........
41. Teach girls to sew
42. teach girls to crochet
MOM Crafts
43. Decide on and make 2009 Christmas gifts
44. Do more sewing
45. I want to make jammies
46. I want to work in a quilt
47. I want to crochet an afgan for D
48. I want to make a couple wall hangings from my old postcard collection
49. Make scrapbook for MJB for our anniversary
50. Budget - I want to get better control in this area
51. Money to my 2 committments consistently
53. Charities biweekly
54. Stop purchasing things I do not NEED
55. Buy needs, not wants, learn the difference
56. Keep up with reading log
57. Read a book about personal finance and saving for the year.
58. Learn to live beneath my means
59. Be supportive in making good financial decisions for our family...........
60.. Help with family finances by taking some of the heavy lifting in this area. Become involved and ask where I can help.
61. Plant a garden, grow some veggies
Do the research and reading needed for this project
62. Find out about farmers market here
63. Find out about food co-ops here
64. Menu planning, weekly and keep in planner
65. DO THINGS
Stop planning and start doing more
66. Simplify my life,
Less stuff
67. Morning's for Mom
68 Prayer time with MJB, breviary, bible, readings about the Saints.
69. Eveing Prayer time
Family Rosary
70. School Plans
Monthly Themes, Plans, lessons, books and so forth for round 2
71. Turn off the TV
I want t ochange the way our family spends the evenings - not just watching the television every single evening. I want to introduce some new ways to spend our time together. MJB is all for it in theory, so it is just what I do with it from here............
IDEAS FOR WHAT TO DO
72. Games together
73. Crafts together
74. Bike riding
So, what else?
75. Clean & Purge girls room
76. Clean & purge G2 room
77. Laundry routine
Implementk a daily rountine of keeping up with the laundry. Ironing done at a specific time each week and kept current for MJB.
Well, that will do it for today. I will add more as I think of it.
#75, and #76 are done.
Matt 5:48
Be ye perfect as your Heavenly Father is perfect.
St. Francis de Sales
"We must begin with a strong and constant resolution to give ourselves wholly to God, professing to Him, in a tender, loving manner, from the bottom of our hearts, that we intend to be His without any reserve, and then must often go back and renew this same resolution.
The virtue I am studying this month is "perfection".........................
+JMJ+
02 January, 2009
notes
I was reading CHC's newsletter and was thrilled to see that they are selling "Holy Papers" as an ebook now. I will be purchasing it tomorrow! from here: http://www.chcweb.com/catalog/category235_236/EBOOKHolyPapers/product_info.html
We are attending an Ephiphany party at a friends tomorrow. They are roasting a whole pig! G went over today to help out with the children and preparations. It was her own idea. She is really showing herself to be a considerate young lady these days.
My mother and father in law are here for a visit for a week or so. I am so pleased to have them here. We miss our family being so far away now. My parents will be coming out to see us at the end of the month. Praise God! I really do miss my parents terribly, and so do the kids.
Goals and Resolutions list for the New Year coming tomorrow.
We are attending an Ephiphany party at a friends tomorrow. They are roasting a whole pig! G went over today to help out with the children and preparations. It was her own idea. She is really showing herself to be a considerate young lady these days.
My mother and father in law are here for a visit for a week or so. I am so pleased to have them here. We miss our family being so far away now. My parents will be coming out to see us at the end of the month. Praise God! I really do miss my parents terribly, and so do the kids.
Goals and Resolutions list for the New Year coming tomorrow.
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