Fighting a Battle I am GOING to Win

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As an adult I have a much bigger will than my duaghter’s..  As of today we are going through a real trial of her testing our boundaries.  Somehow and for some reason God has blessed us with three children who have extremely strong will.  This ine in particular has been having a tough time lately.  Mostly because she is SOOO particular!  

As parents it is vERY important to teach our children flexibilty.  I know that children need to be grounded into a routine and we as a pastor’s family try very hard to do that yet there are times it is imperetive that our kids need to be flexible.  On a whole all of our kids are pretty flexible.  For which I am VERY thankful But they have decided that they are going to test and see just how flexible our rules are.  She has been pushing the limits at 4 with cloths YES 4.  The thing is.  Mommy is a HUGE stickler on clothes, and the same goes with daddy.

But the biggest problem we have is FOOD.  Generally we don’t have picky eaters but for some reason she has decied she doesn’t like anything I fix.   So in the past if they don’t eat their food at a particular mean they will have it at the next meal.  Well over the last few days They all have been asking for their meals to be out away to the next one.   YESTerday she had to miss school due to feeling “sick”  I was just finishing with a stomach thing SOOOO We just assumed it was contagious and that she was getting it… Later it came out that she was just tellling us she wasn’t feeling well because she didn’t want to eat her food. 

Today has been the same story.  All she has eaten today was a bowl of cereal that she finished at Lunch and a partial bowl of soup she will finish tomorrow at breakfast.  She ad to miss AWANA tonight.  She missed out on a special dinner.  All becuase she won’t eat her food.  Tomorrowq will be another day…but tonight after hubby and the other two kids get home we are gonna have a family meeting about house rules and consequences.   I found this neat webite and hopefully in not too long I will have the oppertunity of showcasing them and writing about how it has helped our family!  

We’ll talk real soon!

Well It’s been a while….

Posted on by Mary

The last time i wrote it was December 15th!  I can hardly believe that we have completely sailed through Christmas and New years.  Wow time flies when you are having fun.  OR as the case may be SICK.  For a month prior to the December 15th posting I had a cold that just would not go away.  We tried everything and it simply came down to getting an antibiotic I wish I had gone three weeks prior!!  Now as I am writing this I find myself completely queezy with some sort of stomach bug and praying very hard that no one else gets it in the house!

Hubby has been furiously typing a way at the laptop upstairs.  His first two chapters of his master’s thesis is due in the mail tomorrow morning. and NO he did not wait til the last minute to do it.  He is finishing up foot notes and editing! 

Little Bean lost a few ounces again last week at the Dr’s visit but they were not overly concerned since he had gained so much prior to that visit.  He has another weight check  next Monday!  He is getting so big.  He has gained two teeth in the last month.  He creeps everywhere and at an astonishing speed.  I do declare he is part puppy.  the way he chews and drools and growls!!!

I have been doing a lot of planning again.  It seems like that is all I do at the beginning of January.  Somehow I completely lost my calendar at the end of last year SOOO from October to the end of December I felt like I was flying in the dark But a new year has Dawned and I have decided to put my new calendar right into my planning notebook which I plan on writing a blog post about REAL soon. 

Hopefully this stomach bug this will end as quickly as it has shown up and I will be able to blog more regularly!

Also I will be revisiting the Prayer plan for our husbands since I quickly discovered that my scheduled posting option wasn’t working and my website guru (HT) has fixed the problem!  (THANKS HT)  That will make it easier to stay current!  I will probably do it as a Valentines month theme!  Or maybe just the month of January!

So please stay tuned!    There will be many fun things to come Including a movie review and some other very fun stuff!

Have a great night and God Bless!