Hey guys- Dad took today to work on projects around the house. We had kind of a slow morning, and Dad took the time to inspect the younger ones chores since we've been having a bit of a thoroughness issue. It's really funny,because we remember when he did the same thing with us years ago. We're really glad that we were trained way back then to follow through with things- It sure saves us a lot of trouble now, when we're older. After living in this house about a year, we still hadn't put the hip corners on the tin porch roof due to the troublesome layer of plastic coating it. So today that was our job. We took the pieces of steel and began the tedious job of scraping the thin sticky and stubborn plastic off with our fingernails. We got most of it done by about 3:30 when Dad said we could finish what was left, tomorrow. Us five or six who'd been working on it, took a break and had extremely sore fingertips!
We came inside and had some free-time. Tomorrow we start school! We're not sure whether to like the idea of that or not! :0 Sarah and I listened to The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe on c.d. while I did some red work embroidery. I thought I heard Gracie waking from her nap, but I figured that if she was awake, she'd make more noise.
I better mark this for when I am a mother: If you think you hear the baby, go check on her!!!
When I mentioned to Anna that she should check on Grace, Anna came back and said, "ummmm... I kinda need your help Rachel!" When I came in, Gracie had wet her pants and messed them up too. She is potty-trained technically, but we've been forgetting to put a pull-up on her during naps. So anyhow, she had made a huge mess, then gone in the bathroom, taken a bottle of Windex out of the cabinet, unscrewed the top and poured it all over her bed in an attempt to clean up her mess! Yeah. It took a moment for me to collect myself before I could speak to her without losing my temper, or laughing, or both. Gracie is precisely like the girl in that nursery rhyme- complete with the curl in her forehead. She is perfectly angelic sometimes, and others, like this afternoon, she just loses it and is running with the naughtiest of them.
Well, Anna and Rachel cleaned the mess up and I went upstairs to get Grace. I explained to her all about how she shouldn't touch chemicals, and everything. I almost cracked up laughing when after, she told me that she'd "cleaned up " and her favorite blanket whom she calls "Muter"
(German for mother) hadn't even gotten wet! (obviously, she'd taken the blanket off her bed, before dumping the Windex all over it!)
For discipline, she had to run all her dirty laundry with me. These are the times when you wonder whether your child(or sister in this matter) is actually untrained or just possessed with a spirit of mischief! I'm not sure we've yet figured that out! But hey! We recently overcame "The Battle of the Hairbows" in which we were training Gracie to keep a clip, bow, or hairband in her hair when we told her to. I guess the chemical/potty-training matter is next.
Rachel and I are thankful that these opportunities come up in our family so we'll be partly trained in these things as they appear in our families some day.
I, Rachel have recently learned what the verse in Proverbs 31 means: "She does her husband good, not evil, all the days of her life." I'd always sort of considered that to mean that when I got married and till the end, I'd do my husband good. But I've learned that it means much more. It means now, thinking of how my behavior and habits will effect my husband some day, and thinking of preparing myself for him, or whatever God has planned for me. So like Sarah said, we love learning at home how to deal with all the parts of running a household from potty-training to organizing pantries, to doing secretary work for Dad, and everything else. I hope that whoever reads this enjoys hearing from another family that their kids aren't perfect either! (But aren't they so cute sometimes when they are trying to convince you that they were in the right? :) Well, we'd better leave off here! Oh! Here's a picture of the view we have of sunsets from our front porch. Isn't it beautiful?
We came inside and had some free-time. Tomorrow we start school! We're not sure whether to like the idea of that or not! :0 Sarah and I listened to The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe on c.d. while I did some red work embroidery. I thought I heard Gracie waking from her nap, but I figured that if she was awake, she'd make more noise.
I better mark this for when I am a mother: If you think you hear the baby, go check on her!!!
When I mentioned to Anna that she should check on Grace, Anna came back and said, "ummmm... I kinda need your help Rachel!" When I came in, Gracie had wet her pants and messed them up too. She is potty-trained technically, but we've been forgetting to put a pull-up on her during naps. So anyhow, she had made a huge mess, then gone in the bathroom, taken a bottle of Windex out of the cabinet, unscrewed the top and poured it all over her bed in an attempt to clean up her mess! Yeah. It took a moment for me to collect myself before I could speak to her without losing my temper, or laughing, or both. Gracie is precisely like the girl in that nursery rhyme- complete with the curl in her forehead. She is perfectly angelic sometimes, and others, like this afternoon, she just loses it and is running with the naughtiest of them.
Well, Anna and Rachel cleaned the mess up and I went upstairs to get Grace. I explained to her all about how she shouldn't touch chemicals, and everything. I almost cracked up laughing when after, she told me that she'd "cleaned up " and her favorite blanket whom she calls "Muter"
(German for mother) hadn't even gotten wet! (obviously, she'd taken the blanket off her bed, before dumping the Windex all over it!)
For discipline, she had to run all her dirty laundry with me. These are the times when you wonder whether your child(or sister in this matter) is actually untrained or just possessed with a spirit of mischief! I'm not sure we've yet figured that out! But hey! We recently overcame "The Battle of the Hairbows" in which we were training Gracie to keep a clip, bow, or hairband in her hair when we told her to. I guess the chemical/potty-training matter is next.
Rachel and I are thankful that these opportunities come up in our family so we'll be partly trained in these things as they appear in our families some day.
I, Rachel have recently learned what the verse in Proverbs 31 means: "She does her husband good, not evil, all the days of her life." I'd always sort of considered that to mean that when I got married and till the end, I'd do my husband good. But I've learned that it means much more. It means now, thinking of how my behavior and habits will effect my husband some day, and thinking of preparing myself for him, or whatever God has planned for me. So like Sarah said, we love learning at home how to deal with all the parts of running a household from potty-training to organizing pantries, to doing secretary work for Dad, and everything else. I hope that whoever reads this enjoys hearing from another family that their kids aren't perfect either! (But aren't they so cute sometimes when they are trying to convince you that they were in the right? :) Well, we'd better leave off here! Oh! Here's a picture of the view we have of sunsets from our front porch. Isn't it beautiful?
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