Goals

My personal goal for the month of November is to compliment my kids more. It is so easy to get stuck in the rut of telling them all the things they are doing wrong but so much harder to take time out to tell them when they do it right! It seems simple but it isn't. I did OK for most of the first week and then failed miserably for three or four days and am doing better again now. I think with Thanksgiving comming I should step it up again though. Atleast ten strong compliments a day for each of the kids. It should be easy to be grateful when I have to say nice things all day!

While I'm feeling grateful, our friend Mark Halladay "woke up" three days ago and started speaking again after a severe stroke. His four little kids got to go in and see him for the first time in six weeks. Miracles do happen.

Thanks!

This afternoon my son sweetly  unloaded my dirty dishes out of the dishwasher and put them all away. We will just have to be on our guard since I don't know exactly which ones were still dirty. He totally gets credit for trying though!