Last weeks goal was to not use my tablet as much. I used it more than what I was aiming for but less than before. I will keep working on that, but now it is time to inrroduce a new goal. Have the living room clean every night before going to bed. Here is a picture of what it looks like right now to use as a reference point. Sorry it is out of focus.
Today I got to listen to the General Conference for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and spend time with family. Can't think of a better day.
This morning I decided to tackle the pile of stuff that has been sitting on my couch all week. I started picking things up and asking different children to take care of things. Spike came up to me, "mama, mama!" The only thing I could figure was that he wanted a job too, so I asked him to take care of some toy cars. He was happy ro help. I think it is so cute.
Also this morning, I was rocking Baby in his room, and Cinderella sat down to play the computer. I had told her before she could play, she needed to do her bathroom chores, her bed needed to be made, her room needed to be clean, and the playroom needed to be picked up. So she completed those tasks, and then sat down to play. Guy and Aurora sat down beside her to watch. I heard he hubs ask Guy if his room was clean. I knew it wasn't, because he doesn't ever clean his room on his own, and I hadn't helped him today. I didn't hear his response, but I decided to be a proactive mama, and instead of just yelling at him yo clean his room, I put Baby in his bed, went and called Guy away from the computer, and took him to his room, and together we cleaned it up.
And I cleaned the bathrooms today. Not to shabby of a day.
Then tonight we spent some time with my brother's family. Aurora is having a sleep over with her cousin. She was so excited, she had no qualms with saying goodbye to me when I left.
Next week is spirit week at the elementary school, and on Monday, the kids are supposed to wear tie-dye. So today we did a family activity making tie-dye shirts. It was fun, but took quite a while.
Back when Baby was in the hospital, we came home one evening, and Guy came running up to the hubs exclaiming, "Dad, your home! We have been waiting for you! Can you help us build a tree house now?" Much to Guy's disappointment the hubs couldn't do much about it then. So he decided to take some time off work during spring break, and help them build a play house. He has been working on it all week, but today it finally started taking shape. He spent a lot of time out there working on it today. It is looking pretty good.
I got a nap today too. But overall it didn't seem to be that productive of a day because it was the fun work we did today, but I need to remember fun work is still work.
Also, just before dinner, Cinderella came inside holding a big chunk of hair, informing me that Guy had cut Aurora's hair. I wasn't too happy about that, because her hair doesn't grow very fast, and just got to the point where it is long enough to do things with it. The hubs response was that we should bick Guy's head. I didn't cut it quite that short, but it is a really short buzz. Really short. However I think his loss of hair is harder on me than on him. He told me that they were just playing Tangled, and it was the part where Flynn Ryder cuts Rapunzel's hair, so of course he HAD to cut it. *sigh.
I did pretty well at using my time effectively. Baby woke up this morning at 4:30, so I started my day after feeding him. Our kids have spring break this week, and so I didn't need to worry about getting anyone ready for school. However there was a big pileup of dishes in the kitchen sink, so I finished unloading the dishwasher, loaded it full of dirty dishes, started it, and then took the dirty dish cloths and towels down to the laundry room. There I found a mound of laundry that needed to be sorted, so I sorted thosenand then started a batch of towels. Then I sat down and started working on my latest idea of a job chart.
My current idea is based off of the web site myjobchart.com . The kids each have assigned jobs that they get points for completing. The points then are redeemable for different rewards, that you decide to make available. In addition to their assigned jobs, we also have additional jobs that they can chose to do if they want to earn extra points. Anyway I spent a lot of time today trying to get the additional jobs chart setnup so the kids can see what they are. I didn't quite get it complete, but hopefully tomorrow I will finish it.
This afternoon, Cinderella had a dentist appointment, but as I got ready to take her I found that the car battery was dead. So my hubs and Cinderella rode their bikes down to AutoZone to get a battery charger.
While they were gone, and I was in the house feeding Baby, Guy and Aurora were playing outside. I guess Aurora decides she wanted to go to the school. So she suggested this to Guy, who decided they should walk there. So without telling anyone they took off walking. When the hubs got back he asked me where those two were. I said "outside". A while later, I asked him if he had seen them outside, to which he answered no. I decided to go oir and look for them, but then I noticed our Bishop's wife pull into our driveway and get my rwo kids out of her car. She told me she had found them walking to the school, almost there in fact. I am grateful they let her bring them home. I don't know how long it would have taken me to find them otherwise.
Later in the afternoon I had a good friend, and old college roommate drop by with her kids to say hi. It was just a quick visit, because some of her kids were sick, butnit was nice to see them.
And then tonight I had another friend drop by with a treat for me, and we got to visit for a little while. I am so grateful for good friends and acts of kindness.
Overall it was a busy, but good day. Oh and I managed to not spend time playing on my tablet, except when I was nursing Baby, and one time while using the restroom.
