That is what we have been doing around here for the past several months.I have gotten to the point in life where I need to simplify.I tend to take on way to much.We have been working on getting rid of things for a LONG time now and things are finally coming together! It is looking sooooo wonderful and it just lifts my spirits to have a clean,open,decluttered house.We no longer have a play room but have gotten rid of most of the toys.See,we had hundreds and hudreds of toys and 90% of them didn't get touched.So now the 10% we have are only the good ones.The ones that everyone plays with.We have a big box of blocks,farm toys(barns/tractors/animals etc),baby dolls and accessories,and one container of misc. toys.It is SO wonderful.SO much easier for the children to pick up! They would get overwhelmed at the amount of toys we had before and not even know where to *start* with picking them up!We are storing them upstairs and when they are done being played with they can get put right back into their containers.I don't like having them play in a room downstairs (that is where the play room was) because I couldn't hear or watch them which means that I couldn't correct any bad behaviour.So this is perfect!
Yesterday I cleaned out most of my cabinets and today I am wasing ALL of my windows.That is going to be a project! :) I have so many other things to do today too but it is just so nice that everything is starting to look so good and decluttered.It makes life so much easier.I am convinced that the most important step to having a clean and organized home is to GET RID OF STUFF.Most of us have so many things laying around that we never touch and just clutter up our lives.Get rid of it! It isn't worth the time and if you are a mamma like me,life just goes so much smoother with a clean home.Now as I said,I still have some ground to cover.I have not arrived at "organized" yet :) but we are definitely getting there! Horray!
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Soft answers vs. grevious words
Proverbs 15:1
"A soft answer turneth away wrath:but grevious words stir up anger."
Such a simple,short verse that says so much.I have seen it proven true to many times to even count.I know how I feel when people use "grevious words" with me and I know how my children feel when I use "grevious words" with them.
I so badly want to raise my children with the right attitudes.I don't want them to be angry,frustrated and impatient.It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to get angry with them,use grevious words (or tones) and then turn around and correct them for being angry and impatient.That simply can't go on.We are stopping it around here.Our children are getting older and we are finding that lo and behold,while we have been teaching them so many good and godly things,we have also taught them our bad habits! Aren't the Lord's ways amazing? He blesses young,ignorant couples with children and while they train their children,HE uses the children to open the parents eyes on an unlimited amount of things that they need to change.So parents and children are learning together but there is one other wonderful thing that he has done.He instills this blind,forgiving love in children towards their parents.A love that says "Mamma,you are the best mother in the world" and "Mamma! You don't EVER treat us bad!" . My prayer and hope is that when my children lose the rose colored glasses that they will have received so much love and care from us that they will easily forgive our faults,knowing that we truly did devote our lives to them,that raising them in a godly home was our biggest priority and that we love them more than anything else in this world.
This is my verse for the day.I am going to concentrate on speaking softly.It works,of that I am positive.It has immediate effects on everyone.It is actually pretty amazing but I shouldn't be surprised as God's ways are perfect.I want to get them engraved into my heart and mind more and more and more.
"A soft answer turneth away wrath:but grevious words stir up anger."
Such a simple,short verse that says so much.I have seen it proven true to many times to even count.I know how I feel when people use "grevious words" with me and I know how my children feel when I use "grevious words" with them.
I so badly want to raise my children with the right attitudes.I don't want them to be angry,frustrated and impatient.It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to get angry with them,use grevious words (or tones) and then turn around and correct them for being angry and impatient.That simply can't go on.We are stopping it around here.Our children are getting older and we are finding that lo and behold,while we have been teaching them so many good and godly things,we have also taught them our bad habits! Aren't the Lord's ways amazing? He blesses young,ignorant couples with children and while they train their children,HE uses the children to open the parents eyes on an unlimited amount of things that they need to change.So parents and children are learning together but there is one other wonderful thing that he has done.He instills this blind,forgiving love in children towards their parents.A love that says "Mamma,you are the best mother in the world" and "Mamma! You don't EVER treat us bad!" . My prayer and hope is that when my children lose the rose colored glasses that they will have received so much love and care from us that they will easily forgive our faults,knowing that we truly did devote our lives to them,that raising them in a godly home was our biggest priority and that we love them more than anything else in this world.
This is my verse for the day.I am going to concentrate on speaking softly.It works,of that I am positive.It has immediate effects on everyone.It is actually pretty amazing but I shouldn't be surprised as God's ways are perfect.I want to get them engraved into my heart and mind more and more and more.
Monday, July 5, 2010
Eliminating anger.
My response is my responsibility,my response is my responsibility,my response is my responsibility...............................
I have been trying to memorize those words and keep them in my head.I recently read them in a book called "Love and Respect" and boy,it is quite hard to remember when the anger starts creeping in..It is much easier to blame my bad attitude on someone else.That is wrong though.The way that we respond to any situation is OUR responsibility.No matter how in the wrong our husbands are or how difficult our children are being.
It is late and I would be in bed by now if it weren't for a certain fussy,teething baby.:) I am so thankful for him but as he was fussing I found myself feeling irritated. I just wanted to go to bed! But........my response is my responsibility! I can't become impatient because my precious little baby is fussing.I need to be patient,kind and loving because it is RIGHT.I need to do everything as unto Christ!
Our circumstances are not to *blame* for the way we act.They reveal who we really are inside.When the pressure is put on,the true colors/scents are revealed.
It is easy to be a loving wife to a husband who brings home flowers every night,washes the dishes and tells you to go take a nice hot bath ALONE.:)
Not so easy to be loving to one who comes home in a bad mood because of problems at work and starts snapping at everyone.
It is easy to be thankful when everything is perfect but how thankful are we when things don't go as planned or things just go downright BAD?
It is easy to be full of faith when life is grand but when tragedies happen how is our faith?
The author of "Love and Respect" gives an example of a rose and a skunk.If you step on either of them,they reveal their "fragrance".Why do they smell the ways they do? Did stepping on them make them smell that way? No,they already had the smell within but when you put the pressure on,it caused the smell to be released.
When the pressure is put on do you smell like a skunk or a rose? I thought this was so excellent I just had to share it!
Well,off to bed!
I have been trying to memorize those words and keep them in my head.I recently read them in a book called "Love and Respect" and boy,it is quite hard to remember when the anger starts creeping in..It is much easier to blame my bad attitude on someone else.That is wrong though.The way that we respond to any situation is OUR responsibility.No matter how in the wrong our husbands are or how difficult our children are being.
It is late and I would be in bed by now if it weren't for a certain fussy,teething baby.:) I am so thankful for him but as he was fussing I found myself feeling irritated. I just wanted to go to bed! But........my response is my responsibility! I can't become impatient because my precious little baby is fussing.I need to be patient,kind and loving because it is RIGHT.I need to do everything as unto Christ!
Our circumstances are not to *blame* for the way we act.They reveal who we really are inside.When the pressure is put on,the true colors/scents are revealed.
It is easy to be a loving wife to a husband who brings home flowers every night,washes the dishes and tells you to go take a nice hot bath ALONE.:)
Not so easy to be loving to one who comes home in a bad mood because of problems at work and starts snapping at everyone.
It is easy to be thankful when everything is perfect but how thankful are we when things don't go as planned or things just go downright BAD?
It is easy to be full of faith when life is grand but when tragedies happen how is our faith?
The author of "Love and Respect" gives an example of a rose and a skunk.If you step on either of them,they reveal their "fragrance".Why do they smell the ways they do? Did stepping on them make them smell that way? No,they already had the smell within but when you put the pressure on,it caused the smell to be released.
When the pressure is put on do you smell like a skunk or a rose? I thought this was so excellent I just had to share it!
Well,off to bed!
I am going to try to attempt this again :)
I really want to try and blog again :).I loved blogging but I just didn't take the time to keep it up.SO...I am going to try it again and hopefully with better results than last time!
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Much better picture of my gardens...JUNE
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Potato hills
This is a small section of one of our gardens......It is hard to get the whole thing in the picture......Here you can see the cabbage,some of the onions,a few tomatoes and some cauliflower.......My children each have a garden of their own this year and they are on the left side starting at the tiller and they go on down a ways....That overhead trellis you see is my little girls to grow her pole beans on....She also has morning glories planted around it.....
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