This has been a crazy, busy week. Actually a couple of crazy weeks. We’re moving in June to a bigger house! So we had to get our house ready to go on the market, do showings, etc. Everything is settled now though. We’re buying a house with my parents that has an in-law suite. Did I mention it’s bigger? We’re all excited to have a dining room where we can actually move around the table without tripping on something.
I still had time to go online though – one of the way I relax at night – so I still have some interesting things to share with you.
This post makes me wish I hadn’t gotten rid of all my yarn scraps. Oh well, I’m sure I’ll be building up another stash, and then I want to do this.
Crocheting Something of Beauty…
You learn so much when you become a parent, and I don’t just mean how to change a diaper or give a baby a bath.
10 Parenting Truths I Didn’t Believe
While I would prefer a pristine house all of the time, I’d rather have eight children and a house on the untidy side. I don’t want my children to remember me as the mom who drove them crazy making them keep the house clean. I figure I have all of the “empty nest” years to keep the house clean.
Why I Prefer Parents With Messy Houses
This is just so well-written. I appreciate her point on submission. Being submitted doesn’t mean you have no mind or will of your own. You still get to choose how to exercise your mind and will.
Things I Want My Daughter to Know Before Becoming a Wife
So. well. said. Read this – your children do not need to be socialized with their peers. The best socialization is that found within a family unit.
Socialization (Homeschooling & Peers): I Do No Think It Means What You Think It Means
It’s Mother’s Day on Sunday (as I’m sure you know). A couple of weeks ago my seven-year-old son went to my husband and asked if my husband could help him fix my laundry table for a Mother’s Day gift. I have a round table that I set my laundry basket on when hanging my clothes outside. Gradually over the years the wooden slats that form the table top have fallen off until there were only a couple left.
My husband took Micah to the hardware store where they were given scrap wood to fix my table. They brought it home, and my husband let Micah help him saw the wood to the right lengths and screw it to the frame. They gave it to me right away since I needed the table – what a sweet son.
I love this…makes me laugh every time – especially the last frame.
What is your best tip for an organized move?
Intentional Simplicity 
aww Micah did such a good job 🙂 what a great boy
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I loved how he came up with the idea all on his own. What a sweetheart.
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Good job, Micah!
Boy you lose electricity for 7 hours and you miss so much LOL :).
Busy weekend – but always busy so I’m not complaining ;).
AHHHH – messy houses 🙂 You all know what this house is like lol – I DO have a perfectionist for a husband and yet I’m sitting here thinking about the fact that the house IS clean (not cluttered free yet – that happens about 4:30) because the children and I did chores this morning for about 30 min! That’s it – every day doing chores and the house stays picked up. While I agree with the guy in the article that we don’t want to be neat freaks and have bad memories for our children – we have found a picked up and cleaned house means a joyful, non chaotic house that stays cleaner, too – it truly does 😉 So I go through and declutter every few days and Pierre delegates and helps the kids clean walls and baseboards every few weeks. My older kids have told me that they like the clean house and so far no one has died from over work LOL – of course, many hands make the work light, too 🙂
Yep – socialization is not needed when children are involved in a church. That is where we find their best socialization. I think if WE bring them to church and get them involved with talking to all ages and stations in life – they learn so much more then just sticking with peers. We are so careful who our kids socialize with and I prefer to not let them out of my sight. We learned through a difficult lesson that just cause people homeschool or attend church does not make them wise friends. Thankfully, nothing evil happened. We will not make the same mistake again though. Our kids stay with us :). I love that we attend church together and serve together because that means we can keep tabs on them. We answer for our kids…we have to make wise choices, eh!
Good article on submission – it isn’t a lopsided deal when you get married but I’d rather submit to what my hubby asks (if not going against God’s Word) even if I don’t agree with him then take the lead…MUCH harder job in my opinion to be the head of the household so as much as I can stand with him and support him on things – the easier his job becomes. Sweeter gets the journey is a beautiful song about Christianity but I take it to mean marriage, too :). We have become so together and so one on all things that we are more in love and in step now then when we were first married :). That helps to sweetly submit, too, right? 🙂
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