Hope Continually -- Psalm 71:14

The other evening, I sat down by my husband on the couch.  He said, "You smell good." I laughed out loud because it threw me off.  It was the end of the day.  That morning I had run 1 1/2 miles on the treadmill - sweating profusely.  It was also a very warm day in the 80's and the girls and I had been working outside.  I knew myself that I didn't smell as good as I could have! Then I figured out what he was referring to - it was the new hand sanitizer I had put on my hands sitting at softball practice!   I sure fooled him. :) I was thinking about that scenario.  And I was thinking about teenagers.  And church youth groups. You see, our oldest daughter will be going into 7th grade in August...and into the youth group.  My heart is honestly quite heavy with this change of life.  Not in the sense - "I don't want my baby to grow up."  More in the sense of what she will face. You see, teen years are a tim...

Someone had asked me if I would share the chore list for my girls that I have for the summer.   We use  My Job Chart .  It is an online program.  Each child has their own account.  The parent enters the jobs for each child, how many points it is worth and if it is a morning or evening job.  Then each day, the girls log onto their account, do their chores and check off the jobs on their chart .   The following is what their charts look like .  It includes: The chore. What day/days the chore is to be completed.  (The day is in ORANGE if it is a chore for that day.) If it is an AM or PM chore. How many points they earn for that chore. To have a guideline as to what ages do certain jobs... Addie is 11 years old. Autumn is 9 years old. Sierra is 7 years old. Summer is 4 years old. *The girls play on fast pitch softball teams.  I have "Practice Sports" on their chore chart as a time that they practice ...