Bed Time and lots of Times

Since the new school year is about to start and since I love my newly painted kitchen and since we want to spend all our free time at the cabin and all sorts of other reasons, I decided that our family needs a schedule. Maybe sleeping in until 9:30 a.m. is not so great when one or all of us has to be somewhere at 10 a.m. I recently started to notice all these flaws in my go with the flow plan. Mostly the flaws were related to Quinn screaming and yelling at me all the time especially if I said something like, "Ok, time to clean up/ go home/ go to bed/ have family prayer." I thought maybe if she got in the habit of doing the same things everyday, then suddenly the idea of chores, making beds, brushing teeth, sleeping, or doing her music practice would start to seem like a way of life ....

I know, I know ... BRAND NEW IDEA. Ha, ha. I get that I am late on the uptake here.

That said, life is working out great.

I love our schedule. I don't feel cheated when I wake up or get woken up early because I know what is coming next, and I am in it to win it. My favorite parts of the day so far are morning family scriptures at 9 a.m. and a very fast and fun toy pick up at 7 p.m. LOVE IT! I also notice Quinn asking more about what is happening next. I think she likes it. Who would have thought that a scheduled 15 minutes of reading together after Kenna goes to bed would solve all our nighttime nightmares. Tonight after asking only one time if I would lay with her (answer is No 99 percent of the time) she moaned, "Ok, good-bye mom."

Loved it!

And hence ....

TIME TO BLOG.

Amazing.

P.S. Quite the unexpected twist. I assumed that family scripture study would be a daily event in name only for the next several years. Not so, today I was moved to tears by 1 of the 3 verses we were able to read as we squeezed in scripture time on my way to spend another $700 on my car. Mosiah 2:3. Loved the idea that commandments and rules are given to us (by God) and to our children (by God and us) with the end goal to fill our lives with happiness. I think of the Joy I have seen in my children with week with a little more structure, and I am grateful to have a Heavenly Father who knows what will make us happy and then gives us guidelines and principles to help us get closer to the mark. Families and kindness (which are basically at the root of all Gospel) are ideas that bring happiness. God wants us to be happy. Wonderful. Amen. On to the car dealership!!!