A Plan Not A Promise

One of our family motto's is , "It's a plan, not a promise." I never promise my kids I will take them somewhere because I know I can't break a promise and when you have 5kids you never know what will happen. So, when planning a field trip I always say we PLAN to go. That way if we go great, if not no big deal. We can always go another time. Today I had to cancel the field trip. We had some attitude problems and some cranky babies. I just wasn't feelin it. So our regular school day was back in motion. We start every day with bible. We were learning about John the baptist. I always tell the kids if they don't know a word I'm reading about to ask. Which brought us to the word circumcision. Which we all got on the topic of cutting a pee pee. You could imagine the questions my kids had. What a fun topic to explain. Needless to say our bible study got taken way off track. I then assigned some seat work for the older two (in which I was told was SO first grade)
As the kids did work and I tried to catch up on laundry but ran out of soap (darn, I was really sad) so I couldn't finish my past due mountain piles of dirty clothes. My husband doesn't understand why I couldn't just go to the store and get more. Men! Just what I want to do load them all up and go to the store just to get laundry soap so I can come home and do more laundry. I'd rather use the excuse that we ran out of soap and spend my time doing more important stuff like this:

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Landen wasn't too happy to see himself in a dress, but it made for a good laugh!

Speaking of St. Patricks day I have some great ideas to share with you that you can do with your kids. I'll save that for tomorrow. I am off to bed....
I almost forgot...
Today is day 16 of the 40 Days for Life. 109 babies saved!!! I will post updates everyday.
The Riverside team was so excited that I brought the kids despite some onlookers shaking their heads at me for having all the kids out there holding signs. I believe that teaching your children to stand up for what's right is so important. Eyes are watching and learning from you...Get children involved in pro-life too. Here's a clip the Riverside team sent me today. It's a podcast on the topic of instilling pro-life values in
our children.
Make sure you hit play

Pro-Life Clip

Also, I had the chance to meet Jen from the Valentine exchange who found out her 4 month old son is blind. She is such a strong and positive mommy. Saturday we volunteered together at the recording studio for the Blind and Dyslexic. It was a great experience and I look forward to helping out when I can. Go visit her and help with a donation and get a little gift for being so generous. Hurry you have just a few days.

I was also reminded that I never did the curriculum review, I PLAN to work on that this week. Notice I said PLAN haha!
Ok, now I'm off to bed...Good night or should I say Good morning! ERRR this time change!