Morning thoughts

The reality of a minimal Christmas is hitting me. It is so much fun to celebrate the kids and too splurge. They are such great little people. I will have to really step it up to be so creative as to bring tradition into it as well. It is really a sweet thing to love them this much to refuse myself the pleasure of over abundance toward them. I really want to love them so well as to break this cycle. They have way too much. They are so crowded in the rooms and I want them to have better character. I am a little teary eyed. Oh how forward I look to seeing them on the pedaling devices encoded here. That is the big thing we were able to do. We must stop spending the emergency savings on "stuff". When we were out of work for over a year all those years of savings flew pretty fast. We have to work hard to build that back up. You know each family needs to have a good three months worth of income saved up. We are now far from that and getting older. Remember to guard your selves from hard times. Financial stress is so devastating on families.

The Fruit of the Spirit is "self control" This is a terrific opportunity to practice and teach it.
I will be SEWING every day! I will be doing ONE on One with them instead of giving them so much stuff. Parenting is an education in doing it differently as I go. I miss home schooling because of this. I once spent so much time with them. Gotta to go wake them up now to do so.

Have a great day!