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There’s Always Room for One More
When I was a little girl, I remember laying on the bottom bunk in my bedroom and pushing my legs up against the top bunk as hard as I could to raise it up. While I strained my skinny little legs, I stared at a poster on my wall. It was one that had always been there for as long as I could remember. The poster was a picture of stuffed animals of various sorts sitting in a carboard box. The caption at the bottom read, “There’s Always Room For One More.” I thought about that saying a lot, lying on the bottom bunk, when I was young. I thought…
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Family Consistency
Having a Schedule is Important for Kids, Princes and Princesses Having a schedule is important for kids. Like Poor Mother Hubbard, I have a lot of children. In fact, I have five children, and three still live at home. I have to be consistent, to keep our schedules going for everyone to participate in the family dynamic. This makes for less contention. My two youngest need consistency for their special needs, so they don’t get upset and fall apart when the unexpected happens. My kiddos have chores. It sounds sexist, but the girls mostly do inside chores, and the boys mostly do outside chores and tending to the animals. My…
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There’s Always Room for One More
A Romantic Blessed Mom of 5; Mental Health Advocate, with a Creative, Victorian Soul.
