Happy Home lesson

I made this coloring page to help in my Sunbeam class
We talked about how we can help make our home a happy one.
By working together and helping.

Remember "when we're helping we're happy"

I used this for a Family night lesson too.
I talked about all the responsibilities of each family member.
Mom-make dinner, wash clothes ....
Dad-work for our lively hood, garden in the yard....
kid-go potty, pick up toys, eat their dinner...
(what ever their various responsibilities are)

Then I ask what would happen if we didn't do those things?
What if Mom didn't make dinner?
.......no dinner

Dad didn't mow our grass?
....tall grass & weeds

or the dishes where never done?
..........big mess, no spoons for breakfast

or the laundry never washed?
.......nothing to wear we start to smell

The responsibilities we have are important to make a happy home
When we all work together we can have a happy house.

I also like to point out that we do these things out of Duty and Love.
If we didn't care why do it?  But we do care and so we do these things
even if they aren't fun for us at the time.
But in the end when we stand back and see the happy home
with clean spaces and yummy dinners we feel good about our work.
When we work we are really showing LOVE!

My L brought this to me and I love it!

It amazes me.

counting my blessings

one

two

three

four

Wilderness Wild Flowers

Family togetherness!

It is hard to get all of us to smile or sit still together.

These two are really close!

I like the first one because you can see all of our faces but I really love how we

are all smiling in the second one (minus one covered up face)

Anyone know how to cut and past an entire head/ upper torso? 

Just One of those days....

Woke up to lots of "Mama... Maaahhhh"from my boy.
So I got him up and had to cuddle him and try to get him to drink his milk.
Lately he thinks we give him milk to make him be quiet, so he's sorta
on a milk boycott.  I ended up caressing his head and singing to him
to get him to take the milk.  Silly boy.

(What does this face say to you?)  

Then every second I have to get my little boy out of the hot water he's in

and today that was literal  He climbed up into the bathroom sink and
turned hot water onto his toes and didn't like it! (so mommy rescued him)
He also pushed the fan out of his window and mommy had to rescue him again.

To top that my middle girl is telling me she isn't well.
Around noon, she pukes.   Joy....
sigh....  She had a rash yesterday I was worried about.
Today only her face rash is really awful looking.  The rash has been all over
her torso and arms and face.
She kept asking me to check her temperature, but it only was 99 pr 99.9 so
not too high or anything.

I did lots of laundry and dishes and it didn't seem to

make a dent.
That with my kids not being well...
It was ONE OF THOSE DAYS...

Thankfully my hubby brought home dinner!

big smiles

My girls at a horseback riding lesson.
Loved the smiles here!
So much I thought I'd try and paint it.
You can see my attempt here.