I have came across many wonderful little sayings or maybe better put "phrases of wisdom", over the years and wanted to share here. Some of these has been said in my home growing up, and others i have stole from someone else since i have been a wife and mom, and yet others i have came up with my self. We like saying them around our house.
Read and Enjoy!
If you have nothing good to say, don't say anything at all.
What you Jesus say?
If there's a will there's a way.
Its never right to do wrong.
If its not fun for all, then it's not fun at all.
Never say can't.
Its better to be safe than sorry.
Many hands make light work.
It will all come out in the wash.
Don't cry over spilled milk.
What would Jesus do?
It will show up.
If you don't use it, you loose it!
What would Jesus think?
If you snooze you loose!
Don't count your chicks before they hatch.
If its the Lord's will, it will all work out.
If God's for you, who can be against you?
If it's meant to be, God will open the doors.
Take one day at a time.
Haste makes waste
Think before you speak.
Always stand for whats right, even if it means standing alone!
Go the extra mile.
Don't get mad, get glad!
If you eat the best first, you will always have the best.
Smile, Jesus loves you!
Always look on the bright side of things.
Think of others, before your self.
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Thursday, October 28, 2010
allowance ~ just a little note
I just had one quick thing to add to my last post on allowance.
Just going to mention that our boys do have ways of earning a little extra once in awhile. They are not paid for chores by no means , but for certain things that go above and beyond chores that daddy wants to pay them for.
Also last year Nathan grew and sold pumpkins so he made quite good on that. ( this year they didn't turn out as well)
Also at our yard sale they all had little things of theirs that they sold. And made a little on that.
As they get older they maybe can do jobs with daddy and earn some that way too. All of that will teach hard working skills and teach them responsibilty.
After all that is life.
Just going to mention that our boys do have ways of earning a little extra once in awhile. They are not paid for chores by no means , but for certain things that go above and beyond chores that daddy wants to pay them for.
Also last year Nathan grew and sold pumpkins so he made quite good on that. ( this year they didn't turn out as well)
Also at our yard sale they all had little things of theirs that they sold. And made a little on that.
As they get older they maybe can do jobs with daddy and earn some that way too. All of that will teach hard working skills and teach them responsibilty.
After all that is life.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
allowance ~ how we do it
This is how we do allowance. We start giving our children allowence when they are about 5 .
If they beg for money when we go to the store and i give them a dollar or 2 each time to spend ( or in most cases a quarter or 2 for bubble gum machines), then its time they had a monthly allowance. So that way they can learn responsibility. They know they better spend it wisely because when that's gone, that's it till next month.
When Nathan was 5 and I started his allowance . I started him out at 2 dollars a month. All he wanted his for at that time was for bubble gum machines anyway so i just paid him by quarters. And they went a long way for him. When those quarters were used up he had to wait for the next month.
As they got older and more responsible they got a bit more. Last year at 9 Nathan was getting $ 5 and Clayton at 7 got $3 a month, and Sam yet not 5 did not receive any. Though i did give him a quarter occasionally for the machines or his brothers would .
This year Nathan received $6 and Clayton $4, and Samuel $2. Then just recently Daddy decided they could have each month for how old they were. Except for Samuel we will not start that till he is least 7. I do not feel is responsible enough yet by no means. So now Nathan is getting$10 and Clayton $8.
They are so exited with the money raise and are calculating how much they will get in a year , and how much they will make in a year, a year or two from now!!
Before the raise it may have seemed like a meager amount, and some still may feel it is. But it really wasn't and realy isn't. They learned responsibly from that. They learned to save. And they learned they could with go with out that one thing, and save up more money for that bigger thing. You would be surprised at how much they saved!! And of course all their needs are met by us.
This is one of those things where less is more. "Less" taught them many more things than "more" ever would have.
I feel a big allowance would be appropriate when it is put in a bank account for the child. And is saved for when they are much older. Maybe they could be helped to save for thier first car!
Maybe as time goes by and our oldest ones get older we may have to make changes in this but for now it seems to work very well for us.
I feel its never to young to start teaching money managment skills. Younger the better really!
If they beg for money when we go to the store and i give them a dollar or 2 each time to spend ( or in most cases a quarter or 2 for bubble gum machines), then its time they had a monthly allowance. So that way they can learn responsibility. They know they better spend it wisely because when that's gone, that's it till next month.
When Nathan was 5 and I started his allowance . I started him out at 2 dollars a month. All he wanted his for at that time was for bubble gum machines anyway so i just paid him by quarters. And they went a long way for him. When those quarters were used up he had to wait for the next month.
As they got older and more responsible they got a bit more. Last year at 9 Nathan was getting $ 5 and Clayton at 7 got $3 a month, and Sam yet not 5 did not receive any. Though i did give him a quarter occasionally for the machines or his brothers would .
This year Nathan received $6 and Clayton $4, and Samuel $2. Then just recently Daddy decided they could have each month for how old they were. Except for Samuel we will not start that till he is least 7. I do not feel is responsible enough yet by no means. So now Nathan is getting$10 and Clayton $8.
They are so exited with the money raise and are calculating how much they will get in a year , and how much they will make in a year, a year or two from now!!
Before the raise it may have seemed like a meager amount, and some still may feel it is. But it really wasn't and realy isn't. They learned responsibly from that. They learned to save. And they learned they could with go with out that one thing, and save up more money for that bigger thing. You would be surprised at how much they saved!! And of course all their needs are met by us.
This is one of those things where less is more. "Less" taught them many more things than "more" ever would have.
I feel a big allowance would be appropriate when it is put in a bank account for the child. And is saved for when they are much older. Maybe they could be helped to save for thier first car!
Maybe as time goes by and our oldest ones get older we may have to make changes in this but for now it seems to work very well for us.
I feel its never to young to start teaching money managment skills. Younger the better really!
Monday, October 25, 2010
its catching on!
You know back when I posted about the saying , What Would Jesus Do?
And i mentioned we need 2 more like that, What Would Jesus Say?, and What would Jesus Think?
Well i introduced those to my kids. And boy did they catch on!
With in days after ward I was hearing those all the time.
One did an offence , and another would pipe up and say, " What would Jesus say?" or " What would Jesus think of that?"
One time Samuel said something mean to Sarah, and Clayton piped up and said, " What Would Jesus say to that Sam?" So Samuel quickly said something nice to Sarah to replace the mean thing he just said.
I love it, I love it!!
But i have been caught too! I got upset at Nathan over something, and said in not so nice of terms to shut up.
Well wouldn't you no theres Clayton, and he quickly says, "What would Jesus have said , Mom",
So I'm like, "oh, uh, Would you be quite please?"
He's like yep, that's better!
Daddy to has been caught several times as well.
So we really have to watch what we say now. But that's a good thing!!!
And i mentioned we need 2 more like that, What Would Jesus Say?, and What would Jesus Think?
Well i introduced those to my kids. And boy did they catch on!
With in days after ward I was hearing those all the time.
One did an offence , and another would pipe up and say, " What would Jesus say?" or " What would Jesus think of that?"
One time Samuel said something mean to Sarah, and Clayton piped up and said, " What Would Jesus say to that Sam?" So Samuel quickly said something nice to Sarah to replace the mean thing he just said.
I love it, I love it!!
But i have been caught too! I got upset at Nathan over something, and said in not so nice of terms to shut up.
Well wouldn't you no theres Clayton, and he quickly says, "What would Jesus have said , Mom",
So I'm like, "oh, uh, Would you be quite please?"
He's like yep, that's better!
Daddy to has been caught several times as well.
So we really have to watch what we say now. But that's a good thing!!!
Friday, October 22, 2010
my take on T.V/DVDs/commputer games
Ok so you may be saying enough already!! And if you think i have already more than over done this subject, your more than free to tell me so. Just do it nicely though huh! lol!!
But actually i felt an didn't quite cover everything.
I just wanted to share my personal take or view on the above mentioned items. And why it is i so obviously don't care for them. Note this is my personal take only , just something for me and my house, that's it! Just sharing so you can see where I stand and why I do.
I grew up with no T.V, no movies , no video games. And I just want my kids to be free from all that as well. I want them to know there is more to life than that, that there is other fun things one can do! And of course work, live is not all about fun and games. It should be a good balance though.
Its not even that those things in them selves are bad, but just that they can consume way to much of ones times.
I want my kids to be creative, do crafts, write letters , work hard, play games, read books, read the Bible daily, learn a trade, learn useful things, learn to bake and cook, play a musical instrument, ect. ect. And if anything hinders that , then i don't like it!
So i may be an extremest when I say almost completely no to these items, but its because i see it way over done. And it makes me mad. So then i am like throw it out completely! There now its under control!! My favorite way of controlling things is not having them in the house!!
I am so happy that my husband felt the same on the T.V. So that's never been an issue for us. Though we did have one while we were living in a camper trailer waiting to have our house built, which had an antenna on it( so it got 3 stations). It was about a year we had it. It went when we sold the trailer, and i was so happy to see it go.
But movies via DVDs has been another thing with us. It has took some time for him to be on the band wagon with me on it. And i can not say he truly shares my convictions yet. But since he can see how much it means to me that my kids do better things than sit and watch to much, or spend to much time playing computer games, then he does support that.
Until we got to the point that movies were allowed only once a week, then to every other week as of just late, they were way over done. And it annoyed me to know end. There was hardly no time for reading, no time for games, no time with just sitting around visiting , begging and nagging can i watch , and sometimes complaining about doing chores because they didn't want to miss something : all because of the movies. GRRR with a capital G!!
Computer games were the next issue to conquer. Hubby allowed them, and several times a day. I could not stand them at all! Now its down to very little a day. YES!!!
That's why i stand the way i do. Of course I feel there is times for down time, times when no work needs to be done, times when absolutely nothing needs to be done . But i still feel my kids and mommy and daddy too, has better things to do.
Pual in the Bible did better things! Laura and Mary did better things!!! And we can too!!
But actually i felt an didn't quite cover everything.
I just wanted to share my personal take or view on the above mentioned items. And why it is i so obviously don't care for them. Note this is my personal take only , just something for me and my house, that's it! Just sharing so you can see where I stand and why I do.
I grew up with no T.V, no movies , no video games. And I just want my kids to be free from all that as well. I want them to know there is more to life than that, that there is other fun things one can do! And of course work, live is not all about fun and games. It should be a good balance though.
Its not even that those things in them selves are bad, but just that they can consume way to much of ones times.
I want my kids to be creative, do crafts, write letters , work hard, play games, read books, read the Bible daily, learn a trade, learn useful things, learn to bake and cook, play a musical instrument, ect. ect. And if anything hinders that , then i don't like it!
So i may be an extremest when I say almost completely no to these items, but its because i see it way over done. And it makes me mad. So then i am like throw it out completely! There now its under control!! My favorite way of controlling things is not having them in the house!!
I am so happy that my husband felt the same on the T.V. So that's never been an issue for us. Though we did have one while we were living in a camper trailer waiting to have our house built, which had an antenna on it( so it got 3 stations). It was about a year we had it. It went when we sold the trailer, and i was so happy to see it go.
But movies via DVDs has been another thing with us. It has took some time for him to be on the band wagon with me on it. And i can not say he truly shares my convictions yet. But since he can see how much it means to me that my kids do better things than sit and watch to much, or spend to much time playing computer games, then he does support that.
Until we got to the point that movies were allowed only once a week, then to every other week as of just late, they were way over done. And it annoyed me to know end. There was hardly no time for reading, no time for games, no time with just sitting around visiting , begging and nagging can i watch , and sometimes complaining about doing chores because they didn't want to miss something : all because of the movies. GRRR with a capital G!!
Computer games were the next issue to conquer. Hubby allowed them, and several times a day. I could not stand them at all! Now its down to very little a day. YES!!!
That's why i stand the way i do. Of course I feel there is times for down time, times when no work needs to be done, times when absolutely nothing needs to be done . But i still feel my kids and mommy and daddy too, has better things to do.
Pual in the Bible did better things! Laura and Mary did better things!!! And we can too!!
Thursday, October 21, 2010
what my kids do in thier spare time
When schooling is done for the day and their chores are done for the day then comes spare time.
The kids have way more spare time than I of course.
I do wish that they had a bit more balance with the spare time and the chores. Right now its way more spare time than responsibilities. But as they get older then they can take on more responsibilities that is so important in their growth.
They get done with school at different times through out the day.
After school chores include,
Then its clean up time, and stories and Bible reading. Then tuck in bed and prayers.
Firday eveings we use to have as movie night, but i have been trying very hard to make it game night instead. And last Firday we did play games. I am hoping to push movie night to once a month or even more seldom than that if i can. I am not big on movies as you can see, even if they are good ones.
The kids have liked playing games on our commputer but i am trying very hard to cut that down big time as well. Its just snippets a day now! Yea!! I feel like they have better things to do than sit in front of the commputer playing a game. It wasn't bad games , but still. And I always remind my kids that I did not have all that when i was grwoing up. We had no T.V, no other way to watch movies, and no commputer. And we had a TON OF FUN!!!
The kids have way more spare time than I of course.
I do wish that they had a bit more balance with the spare time and the chores. Right now its way more spare time than responsibilities. But as they get older then they can take on more responsibilities that is so important in their growth.
They get done with school at different times through out the day.
After school chores include,
- folding clothes
- dishes for Clayton (Nathan does supper ones)
- tidying up the living room
- putting away school things off the kitchen table
- i get them to help with supper preparations if its something they can do
- and any thing i happen to see needing doing
- playing in our woods
- coloring
- making puzzels
- playing in the sand box
- playing in the tree fort
- making a roller skating path through the woods (with boards)
- playing out door games
- vsiting Uncle who lives through the wooods ( or its more like driving him cracy)
- reading books
- building things
Then its clean up time, and stories and Bible reading. Then tuck in bed and prayers.
Firday eveings we use to have as movie night, but i have been trying very hard to make it game night instead. And last Firday we did play games. I am hoping to push movie night to once a month or even more seldom than that if i can. I am not big on movies as you can see, even if they are good ones.
The kids have liked playing games on our commputer but i am trying very hard to cut that down big time as well. Its just snippets a day now! Yea!! I feel like they have better things to do than sit in front of the commputer playing a game. It wasn't bad games , but still. And I always remind my kids that I did not have all that when i was grwoing up. We had no T.V, no other way to watch movies, and no commputer. And we had a TON OF FUN!!!
what i do in my spare time
I don't even know if you could say that I actually have any spare time. But occasionally through out the day or evening I grab snippets of time and call it my spare time.
Moments when schooling is under way with out me or is done for the day, and not too many dirty dishes are piled in the sink, or too many loads of clothes are waiting thier turn to be washed!!!
In that time things i like to do is,
Then i like to,
I like to go to bed shortly after as well except some time the girls go down much later. I am going to try to get them at an earlier bed time as well so that i can get to bed at least by 9:30.
Then i can gt up nice and early and get at it once again!!!
I have been asked how I find time to keep up my blog, well to tell you the truth I really don't have time, I just do it any way!! I feel its one of the importians thing and i just take the time. But i don't do face book, and no T.V. So that all helps.
Moments when schooling is under way with out me or is done for the day, and not too many dirty dishes are piled in the sink, or too many loads of clothes are waiting thier turn to be washed!!!
In that time things i like to do is,
- read books to the kids just for the fun of it
- read & write letters ( snail mail)
- read my favorite magazine ( Above Rubies)
- get out side and get fresh air
- make cards
- work with pictures
- baking
- look up Bible verses for a post
- post on my blog
- read and write e-mails
- read my Bible
- phone my family
Then i like to,
- play games with the kids
- read their evening stories & the Bible
I like to go to bed shortly after as well except some time the girls go down much later. I am going to try to get them at an earlier bed time as well so that i can get to bed at least by 9:30.
Then i can gt up nice and early and get at it once again!!!
I have been asked how I find time to keep up my blog, well to tell you the truth I really don't have time, I just do it any way!! I feel its one of the importians thing and i just take the time. But i don't do face book, and no T.V. So that all helps.
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