The time has come again!

Well…. I guess the time has come for me to start blogging again.

For the first time I have both girls for the whole summer. Usually one or both have been on year round school. So when they were in elementary they didn’t get out till the middle of July. What have the Ropers been doing to keep sane this summer? At the beginning of the break I made up a schedule. Monday is craft day, Tuesday and Wednesday free movies at Regal, Thursday is breakfast at the park and play and Friday is have a friend over day. Actually Friday was originally kitchen cooking fun treat day but by Friday I have been to worn out to make anything fun so it has become laze around and drive mom crazy day. That wasn’t working so well for me so I just changed it to have a friend over day. Then each day at 2:00 we have quiet time where everyone goes to a different bedroom and spends some time to unwind. They read, refresh themselves on school work, write stories, sometimes take a nap. This seems to keep them from getting on each others nerves and give me the away time from Quinan’s busyness. Then after snacks I do school work with Quinan and the girls practice piano. They have free time during the day that they can do what they want. This consisted of TV or Webkinz or WII. Which also brought on fights or me frustrated that they were spending all their time on electronics. So….. we started a new thing today. When they do what I ask, or do things that are nice without being told I give them minutes. They can then use their minutes on electronics time. No minutes, no electronics. It has worked out even better than I imagined. They spend all their time collecting minutes they barely even use them up! I have the girls doing things on their own without me asking. It has been great! So the first month of summer is over and I think we have a good way for the rest of the summer.

I have been reading and thinking of some things recently that I will put in a latter post. It is to much to put down all at once! So stay tuned.

I did realize once again how I need to blog more and include more in my blog. ldsmediatalk has some great suggestion on Elder Ballards talk on Sharing the gospel on the internet which you can either find a link to on ldsmediatalk or it is also in the July Ensign. I have been reluctant to share what I learn on church or in scripture study on the blog but looking through the list on ldsmediatalk that is the easiest one to do. So I am going to try and share more of what I learn. So beware. I look forward in you keeping me on track and sharing your thoughts with me.

06/30/2008 | michele |

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  1. you are my new hero! How you do all that in one week, or one day…. WOW!!
    YOU GO GIRL!

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    Lisa
    Jun 30, 09:47 PM

  2. I love the minutes idea!!! Thanks for sharing it (and coming up with it!) I’m going to use it with Grant!!

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    Kim
    Jul 1, 07:17 AM

  3. Sounds like quite the schedule – I’m impressed!
    The article in the Ensign also made me think I need to do more to declare the “good tidings”. I look forward to hearing your insights.

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    Amy
    Jul 2, 08:59 AM

  4. I got 4908.

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    JenJen
    Jul 25, 08:23 AM

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