Character training 101

We had a nice weekend in Ohio for Thanksgiving. Got back around 10:30 Sunday evening. Yesterday afternoon I took a walk to try to walk off the extra calories I ate at Thanksgiving (it's gonna take a LOT of walking!!!) Later I helped the children clean out the van. Some things got put away, a lot of things got brought in to be finished today.

Taking a trip always takes it's toll on our home. Today I was hoping to get the rest of the trip things put away, make a couple lasagnas for the freezer with meat that needs used up, make some badly needed bread, have the house tidied up and school completed in time to leave for a vision appointment this afternoon. I know, not likely to happen, but high goals are better than low goals.

So now it has been "one of those days." I had a sweet little helper grinding wheat for me to make bread, the filter was forgotten, so flour was pouring out where the filter belongs. I was upstairs when this happened and my sweet little helper just kept grinding!!! 8~( So now I have a white dusting over just about everything!!! My kitchen floor was white, the counters are white, the dishwasher was opened because other little helpers hadn't finished putting away the CLEAN dishes, so they are dusted with white, book shelf dusted with white ~ you're catching on aren't you!

Well, I am thankful to have sweet little girls to help me and to occasionally make a bigger mess than was already here. Did I mention the laughs that we are making for years to come? I'm sure I will laugh someday, though I am not laughing right now!

You are probably wondering ~ why in the world are you blogging when you have sooooo much work to do? Easy, I am trying not to eat so much so I can lose those extra calories I ate over the weekend, not to mention the weight I needed to lose before the feast! So I am at the table surrounded by my children, I ate my share and stopped, now I am on my laptop eyeing the food that is being left in the dishes and trying to convince myself that I have had ENOUGH!

You know, there may be some people reading this that would think, why don't you stop having children, send them off to school, and then have a clean house and some "ME" time! There is nothing I would rather do than have my children with me 24-7. Having the privilege of helping them with school, guiding them through character issues, and spending loads of time with them is such a blessing! And these "days" that happen occasionally, well, they are character training for me!

I Love being a Mom!