Thoughts..

Journey really loves her dolls. She has discovered the baby carrier and carries her dolls all over the house in it. I love my girly girl! On another note, she is really becoming much more confident in walking. She even crawled up the whole flight of stairs for the first time this week.

Aspen just started Kidmo!, a kids group on Tuesday nights at Abundant Life Church. He loved it!

For the past month, I have been thinking about what is really important to me, and how to make sure that the busyness of life doesn't overshadow what I feel is really important. I decided to make a list of goals/priorities for myself to see what would come out of that and then shape my schedule around that. Here's what I came up with....

- Aspen memorize at least one scripture (group of scriptures) a month

- Work on preschool type activies including learning to write letters, math, learn to tell time, matching words with letter sounds, etc. (I'm pretty much just feeling my way through this!)

- Library - 2x per month

- Work on charictar qualities - kindness, gentleness, manners, respect, etc.

- Dinners together as a family - takes organization and pre-planning on my part!

- Make up chores chart for Aspen? Not sure on this one yet.

This has been the first week that Aspen and I have been working on "school" together. So far we have had a Letter of the Day theme, and have worked on A and B. I got a few preschool workbooks that we have been using. The biggest challenge for Aspen right now (besides wanting to do this) is the writing part. He has never been an artsy type of kid. Doesn't color or draw, and has just figured out how to use a writing grip on the pen.

So I am basically still working on a schedule for us. I have decided to go back to work on a temp basis, hopefully one day a week. I will be in a group at church one day a week, and will have to try to balance the office work for Mark inside all the other stuff I am doing during the week.

I guess I don't have any set in stone answers for myself, but just analyzing this has lead to me making sure I am spending a little more time playing and reading to the kids, and a little less time cleaning and on the internet (unless they are in bed!).