Simplify

“We women have a lot to learn about simplifying our lives. We have to decide what is important and then move along at a pace that is comfortable for us. We have to develop the maturity to stop trying to prove something. We have to learn to be content with what we are.”

 ~Marjorie Pay Hinckley~

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Happy Thanksgiving

Awesome printable from I Am Momma Hear Me Roar

Vacation

Sleeping in (sort of), hearing the high-pitched voices of girls' pretend play, eating cracked wheat for breakfast, not having the rush of getting kids off to school, and watching the progress of a Lego head dispenser being built.  The ideal vacation morning!

100

This is my 100th post on this blog.  Wow!  Who knew I had so much to say?  Here's to another 100 and then some!

Birthday List

Daughter #4 wrote her birthday list a week or so ago.  Let's see if you can decipher it.  Here it is:

Daughter #4s Birthda List

1.  LOSE Of yorne.

2. a litol unbrla.

3. lose of Sckiney bltse.

4. Som barebes.

5.  noo School Ckoloose

6. Som Pant

7.  10 Packs Of gum gum.

8. 100 dolrs.

9.  A COOT

My favorites were numbers 4 and 9.  I laughed long and hard over this list.

Bedroom Cleaning Marathon

The kids and I just had a bedroom cleaning marathon.  I have a checklist for the kids to follow to make sure their room gets clean.  Much progress was made.

To encourage the kids to get rid of clutter, clothes that don't fit or they don't wear, and trash, I pay them anywhere from 1 cent to 50 cents per item.  Most of the kids earned $1.45 or more.  We got 4 trash bags full of stuff to take to the D.I.  I do let the kids buy things from each other if there is something they want.  Like clothes or toys.  Or the wooden chair that Daughter #1 made with her dad that Daughter #3 wanted.  This system has worked out pretty well.  There is way less crying this way than when I go through their things and force them to get rid of stuff.  I've learned.

Less is More

I'm really liking the not-so-dusty look.