I think it's actually because I made a schedule to follow during the week, and now, I don't find myself taking every spare moment to ask, "Oh no, what do I do now that I can catch up on while the kids are asleep???"
Funny how making an actual "schedule" for yourself helps you organize your life! I feel like I've accomplished something BIG!
Really, all I did was write down one thing to do a day that I usually do each week (without a schedule) while the kids are asleep during their naps, and I've even added to my to-do list. It also helps that I've cut out Facebook a bunch (limited, limited time on there, mind you!) and other things that "take up" time during the day (like t.v., even though I hardly watch it anyway - so much of it is just mindless, and you end up wasting your day sitting on the couch when you could be doing productive things!).
Recently our pastor did a sermon on forming good habits to take the place of your bad habits, and I went home thinking, "I am going to take note of all the bad habits I have (i.e. watching mindless t.v., etc.) and try and replace them with good habits."
His main goal was to help us understand through his sermon that "we ARE our habits".
I am realizing that is so true. What we spend our time doing with our lives is WHO we are, and WHAT we achieve. If we want to be a Facebook junkie, we will be a Facebook junkie.
But if we replace that with another "better" habit, we will achieve more. Such as...making a list for ourselves to "do" our laundry during that time of day instead.
Haha...I'm making it sound like I was a couch potato. Really, quite the contrary. But...anyway, all that to say, I am in the process right now of replacing bad habits with good habits, and it's great!
I will now stop babbling, and share a few pics this week. I don't want to say that I want to post a blog weekly now, because I don't want to get TOO excited here, but - I do want to try and post MORE. So, here's to more posts. Lol!!
Here's a bit of what we've been doing since I posted last! It's a combination of pics from yesterday and today, and sorry, a bit out of order! :)
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| We started out our day yesterday during "Tot School" coloring the letter "B" and saying our memory verse. Didn't get a chance to capture it on photo! But then we did our matching shapes and colors and I was able to snap a photo! |
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| He's actually pretty good at it and of course, Momma is proud. |
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| We also strung (is that even a word?) together foam bracelets for brother AND sister. They both love jewelry! |
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| Today we watched the rain, which never happens here in the dry West Texas desert! It was a welcome sight. It was cute - K saw it and took sister by hand to the window and said, "Look, sister, it's raining." So, so precious. He's already teaching her! |
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| She has just begun to like baby dolls. Obviously! |
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| Stringing of the foam bracelets. Okay yes, like I said, these are out of order! Sorry! ;) But, you get the general idea! |
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| Yes, he's taken a liking to jewelry AND high heels. |
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| And "hats". |
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| Sister has too. This was all last night while I was watching "The Bachelorette," which, is one of the "habits" I may need to cut out. The more I stop watching it, the more I realize how silly it is! ;) |
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| Oh yes. It would not have been fair for me to throw out the box this morning before he pushed sister around on the floor in it. She LOVED it. |
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| And this morning we worked on our "Tot Book," which is another thing I've learned from the 1+1+1=1 site. I'm tellin ya, the lady's a genius. Well, not really, I don't think, but she sure has a LOT of good info for this momma! :) It's just a file folder, cut in half, and made to be a book on the inside, filled with little slots for him to pull out numbers 1-10, and shapes, and colors. You can make any kind you want, and give it a theme. This one was a theme from the movie, "Cars," because K loves that movie. I plan to make another one with a different theme, because he loved it! :) It is SO fun to see your child learn, and these are amazing. |
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| Just goofiness this afternoon. Ha! Seeing how many silly shots I could get with the camera. A few moments later the kids were smothering me with kisses. Didn't get a good shot of that but sure got a lot of slobber! Hahaha. |
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| And, had to top off the day with a bit of running through the puddles. :) Just fun. |
And, a good laugh at dinner.
Friends, this is just two days in our household. We are so blessed!!!
I won't say that it's always easy or fun but it sure is a joy. I wouldn't have things any other way.
Kaleb is most definitely every bit of two. He still throws his tantrums and I have to correct him a LOT.
One last thing I will leave you with -
Tonight I found out a sweet girl I never knew but was following on YouTube has died - she had cancer and her name is Talia. Please if you get a chance pray for her family, do so - I know this is a hard time for them, and I'm not sure if they are Christians. Here's a link - http://youtu.be/TxpCX7cpXyk
Blessings,
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