The Best Way to Start a Revolution

You want to be a rebel?

You want to start a revolution?

People need purpose.

Without purpose people perish or get “judge-y” and uncool.

Your purpose doesn’t have to be the axis of a major market or the defining word on federal law. It can be as simple as selling boiled peanuts at the Piggly Wiggly in the backwoods of Alabama. Worth, real worth, is not measured by monetary value or pedigree, class or corporate status. Rather it is determined by how much of ourselves we are willing to surrender to our commission, to our daily, boring, ordinary jobs. Worth is, or at least should be, measured by our faithfulness.

Should Kids Help Pay?

Diana left this comment in the comment section of The Two Most Important Things in Education:

As our kids are getting into the higher teens and they are getting income from various places we have struggled with what to require of them (for example a friend our ours has her children contribute half of any income they earn to the family..but she is a single mom now with 8 kids and they need to do that..they are very hard workers and really take care of each other). We want a family economy but just aren’t sure what to require. We don’t want to encourage mooching as they head into adulthood but feel a bit guilty about having them contribute cash.

Are We Deceiving the Children?

Where did we get this concept that summers are a time of living carefree? You know, those lazy, hazy days of summer?

These long days of summer are to be enjoyed, but this mentality of 3 months of doing nothing but fun in the sun is wrong.

Summers should actually be our busiest time. This is the time to sow, weed, water and harvest.

Back in the agricultural days kids took a break from “school” to be able to help work the family fields and farms. They understood the work that it took to keep everyone alive.

The Results of Poor Management

Whether it be in business, finances, churches or even the home, if there is poor management it is obvious.

A poorly managed business will lack quality and customer service all while the bottom-line of profits disappear. A poorly run business will eventually go bankrupt.

Good management will reflect in the attitude of the employees, product and profit. It is a business that will grow, meet needs and evolve with changing times.

THIS is How You Teach Skill and Confidence

Last Saturday morning Jeff and I, along with my mother and grandmother who are visiting for a couple of months, received these special invitations on the piano.

Olivia and the children went shopping and when they got home they required us to stay in a bedroom for a few hours. So I piled up on the bed with the laptop and made the best of the afternoon.

THEY WERE SO EXCITED as they worked!

What would you do if all the money was gone?

Some of you may have been there before.

Some of you may be there now.

Some of you hope to never be there.

It’s the place when hard financial times hit. They may come from an un-expected catastrophe or maybe from job loss. These situations can empty your savings before you know it and leave you questioning the future… questioning everything.

So how do you respond?

How do you prepare for these times?

Pictures from Our Work-cation

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A few weeks ago our family, and Emma and Josh, took a work-cation.

A work-cation is where you go somewhere and it is partly work, and partly vacation. Basically the work part of it pays for the vacation part of it.

Josh’s mom needed some work done to her house, and he being the good and faithful son he is wanted to do it for her. (((Girls, look for a guy that is good to his mom - he’ll be most likely be good to YOU!)))

So Where Do We Start?

I received many private emails in response to last week’s post, I challenge you….

A few emails had the same questions like the one I received from “Mandy”, she has given me permission to share her email with all of you.

” Homeschooling my 3 kids and keeping home and managing the finances keeps my days full. I just… found out that the place my husband works is closing. We are just trying to keep our heads above water. I do try to be an encouragement to other moms in our homeschool group, but we neither have the space (very tiny house), the time, or the money to have people in our home.

Why They Get On My Nerves -Part 2: Child Training

After posting yesterday about why my kids, my husband and the housework get on my nerves, I felt like there needed to be a follow up post about another aspect of this.

This part is mainly about the children, those sweet precious gifts from God, that were also born with a sin nature, just like we were.

These kiddos (just like me) need to be taught and trained, taught what is right and wrong, and then trained to do the right thing, regardless of what they want to do.

Why They (kids/husband/housework) Get On My Nerves

I’m not sure what it is right now, but the kids are hungry all the time, maybe it’s because it is summer and they are running around more, swimming more or maybe they are all just growing! Sometimes I think they are just bored.

We don’t buy a lot of junk food around here and most of our cooking is from scratch…so that takes time.

This morning I was making waffles for the kids using wholewheat that I ground myself and with blueberries that were just picked by my husband. My hopes were that these waffles would keep them ‘full’ for a while, and I made some extras for them to snack on this afternoon. Making waffles takes time.