January 3, 2008

• Purdy Pink

  I was hiding out in my bedroom for a few minutes breathing through dealing with my middle son.  Daddy took over while mommy breathed.  LOL  He was asked to do get all of the soggy dish rags out of the kitchen sink (that he'd put there).  Didn't do it.  Got in trouble.  Didn't do it.   Got in trouble.

  Mommy left and daddy dealt with it.  He was a fresh face.  ROFL 

  Any how I went in there shaking and breathing, and picked up a book to read and distract myself from my frustration when I looked up and saw this in the sky.  Its been dark, gray, nasty rain HEAVY rain.  River is flooding (not big flood normal flooding) and WINDY.  And suddenly God provided this.

  

  It made me smile, and get up off the bed and go find my camera.  I called Rob into go see it, and then went and finished dinner.  And then it was dark and gone.  It was five minutes of color, but it made all the difference in my gray world.

  

  Oh and Jamari *did* get the soggy wash rags out of the kitchen sink, and he did clean the kitchen to daddys specifications.  *snicker*  And he even got a big hug and a I love you from mom.  Mommy left before Jamari knew how frustrated she was.  Tis why God gave kids two parents.  ROFL

  We have written down five chores and put them on seperate pieces of paper.  Once a week the kids draw a piece of paper and have to do the chore for a week.   They do lots of pitch in things...like tidy the living room, and tidy the sun room, etc.  but these chores are there sole responsibilities.   We have different standards for how there done depending on the age of the child, but so far its working mostly well.  Except we added a new rule today now that the novelty of the chores has worn a bit thin.  Now before they are done they have to ask for a pass inspection from a parent.  We get busy and assume a job is done and come back hours later to see it done poorly, not at all, etc, and we needed it done in order to function.

  Jamari for example was supposed to load the dish washer at lunch time, and throw the garbage on counters etc away, and do a quick wipe down of the counters.  This takes him less then ten minutes.  And if the wipe down is done right after lunch is not a big deal.  But if you wait four hours...not pretty. 

  (normally)

  I went into make dinner at 4 pm...and he hadn't done any of it, and I didn't have dishes to use for dinner.  Thus the problem.  LOL

  Ahh well, its a kid thing.  We all gotta see if we can get away with shirking, and find out we can't.  LOL

  So any how the sky.  I cut a bit out of it, and used my seamless tiling tool, and now I have a pretty background.  Its not wintery, more spring like, but I took it in winter, and I like it so there.

  Look for the rainbows, the chocolate, the blessings.

  Count it ALL joy 

   

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