I am a scrapbooker--a scrapbooker that is behind, but a scrapbooker nonetheless. I like the hobby because it allows me to be creative and it helps me document our lives. I occasionally read a scrapbooking blog. The woman encouraged people to document one week in their lives with pictures and journaling. I have been thinking about doing it for a few weeks now, and yesterday morning I decided that this is the week. I think I kept waiting for a week when my house was perfectly clean, when we had a "normal"schedule, when we had a week worth documenting. Instead of waiting to do it "perfectly," I am just going to do it.
The idea is for me to take a lot of pictures--I will not put them all here--and to document as much about this week as I can. Here goes.
A Week in the Life: Monday
10:00 am Christian and Jess having breakfast and coloring.
10:05 Time to get ready. Mike made his side of the bed. He usually makes mine too.
Christian's art work. He taped it on the wall by our bed.
The laundry to be folded. I just did 2 hours of laundry and folding and putting away last night and by 10 in the morning there are 2 more baskets.
10:15 Calling the kids to come up and get ready for the day.
Flossing.
Christian acted as photographer. Doing Jessica's hair.
11:00 Someone needed a time-out.
1:00 Running errands. Chrisitian dressed himself today. The time-out was because he didn't want to wear socks with the cowboy boots. He threw the socks at me when I gave them to him. So here we are going into Joann's to buy fabric for Jessica's halloween costume.
6:30 The kids and I headed south for Great-Grandpa's 90th birthday party.
7:30 Back at Grandma's Andrew played with and fed Baby Max.
9:00 We got home and the little kids went to bed. Andrew had math facts to practice.
9:30 Bev in bed. Andrew was supposed to be too. I went downstairs to find him watching the last of the Broncos game with Mike.
Bev and I hung her flower letter cards in her room.
Once the kids were all in bed, Mike and I watched Dancing with the Stars on Tivo and then went to bed.
Andrew is obsessed with reading lately. He was sent to put his shoes on. He put them on and then stood, waiting for us to leave.
Christian got sparring gear, and was excited to test it out on Dad.
Strawberries are not going to be around much longer. I made the kids a strawberry shake.
On Sunday, we do our weekly family meeting. We look at the kid's charts, give them allowance, help them sort their money into tithing, savings, mission and spending. We talk about their goals for the upcoming week. Andrew cares a lot about earning money. He is very responsible with it. He is also very generous with his money.
Christian is just starting to care about earning and saving his money.
Jessica just likes to dump her money out of her Minnie bank and put it back in the slot.
Bev has not cared much about earning money. Recently, however, she is motivated to save. The motivation is a High School Musical lamp she saw at Walmart.
