Saturday's I usually leave for work around 1:30-2pm and arrive home 1:00-2:00am. It's a long night and Sunday mornings come EARLY.
We have church at 9am and then youth at 11. So I am usually running on coffee fuel on Sunday's.
I have one rule for Saturday nights: get your sunday morning stuff together. It just makes the morning rush easier when your jacket, shoes, outfit is all ready.
Well-this particular sunday morning nothing was done. No shoes out, no jackets out. It was where is my.....I can't find my....
A battle that I am in at this phase of life is to teach the girls to be responsible for their things. I happily wash, dry, fold and put hang ups on hangers. I deliver them to their rooms and neatly put them on their bed. Their job is to put them up. That simple. Our shoes are either in our closet or in the shoe basket by the door. (Atleast that is the rule) if you take them off in the car and forget to bring them in...that's on you.
Some people think this is asking a lot of the girls but I truly believe that kids value their stuff when they are responsible to take care of it.
So back to Sunday morning...I went to wake the girls up and all chaous broke loose. And as a result they went to church without their jackets because they had forgotten where they took them off. Luckily it wasn't too cold.
Afterwards I decided that maybe a closet full of clothes is too much for them to handle. So I narrowed down their wardrobe to 10 outfits. Then their shoes to boots, church shoes and play shoes...1 pair each. And then their jackets 1 each. 14 things. That's what they have for the month of November.
Raising girls is more than making sure they look cute and become good wives and moms. I want to raise good girls that care about others and that care about taking care of the blessings that they have. It's not about the "things" it's about caring for them. Being thankful for them.
What a great idea narrowing down their outfits! Good for you!
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