Tonight for Family Night, we did a thankful-for-circle. We went around the table and had each person say what he/she is thankful for about each other person. It was so neat to hear what everyone had to say and especially to see the children's faces light up when they were being talked about! I thought . . . "wow, what a great idea, we'll definitely have to do this more often!"
Well, it finally came to me and the children started saying what they were thankful for. When I realized that the general consensus was that the children are most thankful for me because I let them earn back their groundings, I wasn't sure what to think. Is that really all I have to show as a mother? Hmmmmmm! I guess my goal now is to see if I improve at all between now and the next thankful-for-circle. (I want my thankful-fors to be as good as Jason's!)
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. . . this is our Joy!
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- Mindi B
- I am the wife of a "ridiculously good looking" man (Jason) and a stay at home mother of 6 (4 girls, 2 boys). I am kind of loud, a little goofy, mildly sarcastic, and a teeny bit social - okay, maybe that's a slight understatement! I love to be with people (especially Jason), laugh out loud, make friends, and hopefully not embarrass myself too much with my forgetfulness and more than occassional clumsy behaviors. I love music, reading, running, skiing, playing basketball, going to the gym, and looking at myself in the mirror (no, just kidding - I don't ever do the last one - he he.) I am a BYU sports fanatic and I LOVE football season! I have been married 17 years and I am the happiest person ever.
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Our Children
Mindi and Jason
Keira
Landon
Amber
Brianna
Corbyn
Kelsea
Family
Friends
Favorite Sites
Things we Like
- Air Conditioning
- Bear Lake
- Bowling
- BBQs
- Dance Revolution
- Dancing (Clogging)
- Disneyland
- DVR
- Exercising
- Falling Snow
- Family Home Evening
- Golfing
- Happy Children
- Hawaii
- Hawaiian Music
- Holidays
- Hotels
- Lake Powell
- Mountain Lodges
- Music
- Ocean Breezes
- Playing Games
- Playing Tennis
- Playing the Wii
- Sandy Beaches
- Singing
- Snowskiing
- Summer Evenings
- Sunshine
- The Canyon
- Travelling
- Waterskiing
- Waves
Things we Dislike
- Arguing Children
- Backseat Driving
- Bills
- Complaining
- Inefficient stop lights (you know, the kind that say red when there are not other cars anywhere to be found!)
- Mosquitos
- Not enough time in the day
- Spiders
- Spilled Drinks (especially the ones that miss the kitchen floor and land right on the carpet!)
- Sweeping the floor (at our house, this has to be done about five times a day)
- Taking a screaming child out of Sacrament Meeting
- Toy Packaging (They are adult proof)
- Warm milk (like when you pour a bowl of cereal and don't know that the kids left the milk out all morning . . . yuck!)
- Whining
4 comments:
Moms ALWAYS have to be the bad guy all day, so I figure it's probably best if they sometimes fear me. But what a fun idea! We totally need to try that!
Oh, and I made that thing on my blog by just digital scrapbooking it together (using whatever program you have) and saving it as a .jpg. Then you can just upload it as a picture. Hope that helps!
It is funny that the person that does the MOST for the kids gets the least amount of praise, good thing we mothers don't work on complaments right?
So typical of kids! I love the thankful idea, though. We've done that before, but not for a while. I'll have to try that this week!
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