Hearts for Home.

My list for the week:

1: Take my older girls out and spend some time with them.

2: We have been praying every night with the children but it has been quick and easy prayer. We really need to spend more time praying with the children and not being in such a hurry to get them into bed. I think we need to pray the family rosary more so will have a go at that this week.

3: Spend time praying with Steve.

4: Last night I was reading A mothers rule of life again and it spoke about making choices and living with the consequences of our choices. I want to make a bigger effort to make the right choices in doing the house work and teaching the children.

5: I want to also make a bit more effort with Amelia and getting her the right help she needs with literacy.

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Hearts for Home.

Hearts for home is a weekly meme hosted by Gae from Cherished Hearts at Home.

Gae writes:

In today’s busy and aggressive society mothers at home are not given much encouragement to be committed to their role in being home.

In my weekly 'Hearts for Home' post I am encouraging myself and others to commit to thinking about what 4-6 things we can do each week to bring our thoughts, prayers and actions to keeping our 'Hearts for Home'.

Here is my list for the week:

1: Reading each day with Tom, Amelia and Christopher. We get so wrapped up in the day to day running that I don't take enough time for this.

2: doing the washing every morning and not leaving it till the afternoon.

3: Going out with Steve for a coffee on our own.

4: checking on the children's jobs and giving them guidance without shouting when they have not done them properly.

5: Making some pumpkin choc chip muffins and pumpkin bread from the pumpkin that I puree.

Hearts for Home.

Gae from Cherished Hearts started this weekly meme.

This is what she wrote:


In today’s busy and aggressive society mothers at home are not given much encouragement to be committed to their role in being home.

In my weekly 'Hearts for Home' post I am encouraging myself and others to commit to thinking about what 4-6 things we can do each week to bring our thoughts, prayers and actions to keeping our 'Hearts for Home'.

Here is my list for the week:

(1) to prepare the new timetable and curriculum plan for term 3.

(2) to continue getting the family room organised so that Steve can start renovating there as soon as the bathroom is finished.

(3) to pray for each member of our family.

(4) to spend some time reading with Tom and Amelia.

(5) To take the children on a outing to back beach again.

Hearts for Home.

Gae from Cherished Hearts for Home hosts this weekly meme.

In today’s busy and aggressive society mothers at home are not given much encouragement to be committed to their role in being home.

In my weekly 'Hearts for Home' post I am encouraging myself and others to commit to thinking about what 4-6 things we can do each week to bring our thoughts, prayers and actions to keeping our 'Hearts for Home'.

1) To clean out the home school room. We have a lot of clutter in there at the moment and I have been using our dining room table for working. I really prefer working in the end room since it keeps the dining lounge room tidier.

2) Personal prayer. I have been breaking my morning routine of prayer. I just find it hard to get up in the morning and have been feeling very tired. I need to commit to 30 minutes each night I think. The mornings are not working.

3) Reading with the children: I haven't been doing much with this either. Our home schooling for the last two weeks has been the bare essentials and that is it. I realized the other day that I haven't read to the children at all since Tom's first communion.

4) Time with Steve. We haven't been out on our own for a couple of weeks either. Hopefully we will get out for coffee or tea soon.