The Haywards Missionary Adventures

Today Andrew and I were admiring this family photo and I asked him where he was he proceeded to tell me..." I'm up in Heaven ..you were still making me" Oh the funny things kids say.

For the last few weeks we have implemented the bed time routine in our home and it seems to be working. how this works... when they fight (extensivley) (a little banter is healthy.lol) talk back immature behavior getting out of bed. (this is mostly for Callie because she would stay up till after midnight if we let her) bad attitude their Initials are put on the calendar. The first one means they have chosen not to stay up after bedtime. The second initial means they want to go to bed a half hour early I limited them to 5 initials a day (bed 2 hrs. early) Yes my kids have wanted to go to bed at 6:00p.m. which makes for a very peaceful evening. In fact I have two kids that on Saturday chose to loose staying up privileges throughout this week. I don't expect this to solve all our issues but it seems to be making an impact and they are really good at going to bed because they know if they don't they will loose their privileged for tomorrow. So far Cody, Andrew and Tasha are the on...

Andrew and I walked the kids to school today which is a rare treat. As we were making our way back home I asked Andrew if He knew where Luke lived (a friend from church) he said " I can't see his house cause it's to froggy" So if you live in Tacoma beware of the frogs they could be covering up your house as well.

As a parent we are usually the first ones to hear if there is a complaint or a problem. My kids tend to voice their opinions frequently to me or anyone that will listen. We have tried different methods to curve their behavior with no victory. We have also taken parenting classes watched love and logic videos, watched our share of the Nanny. Yet we were still coming up short. Our biggest problem was finding a privileged that could be taken away. Last week I was reading my Sister in-laws blog and she was telling of how she uses bedtime as a privileged. So We have adopted this concept into our daily life and it seems to be making an impact on my kids. We have a chart with the days of the week and we give our children the opportunity to stay up a half hour after bedtime if they can get through the day without getting their initial written on the chart. However they can also loose hours and get sent to bed early for every initial (besides the first one)they have chosen to go to bed 1/2 hr ...

I GOT A PACKAGE TODAY! LOVE PACKAGES! I was complaining to my Sister that I can never find any cute bows and don't even know where to start to make my own. I guess she was feeling sorry for me because today I received a package. Shawna and my Mom filled it with coupons, M&M banks, Chocolate and... BOWS LOTS OF BOWS! I love them! In fact I will most likely be sporting a couple of these tomorrow. Callie has already picked out the red,pink and white ones for tomorrow I sure hope we can find a dress to go with them. lol. Thank You! Shawna and Mom!

I was trying to decide what to do Today... Clean, exercise, waste time on the computer, spend time with Andrew. And as I was wasting time on the computer I realized it was do Nothing Day! Yea! Now I can do nothing and not feel guilty. I am just keeping this day alive. This being said I am only human so I did run a little today and I will most likely pick up around the house, and of course I will spend time with Andrew because at this moment he is trying to make his own peanut butter sandwich because his mother is blogging and ignoring him. Have a great day doing nothing!

My last trip to Albertson's turned out to be the best! Yes, I know you are sick of me posting about shopping but I had a few of you ask.. How I do it? I ended up spending $1.77 for what you see in the picture. You ask how? Albertson's Ad had two double coupon certificates in their ad where they would double up to 3 manufacture coupons per certificate. There are a few sites I continuously go to print off coupons they are... Betty Crocker Coupon Cat Pillsbury Albertson's had a sale when you bought $30 worth of certain items you would get 3 $5 dollar coupons for your next purchase. I grouped all my coupons together to try to get the best deal I could. The first time I purchased it actually cost me $17 something but I had $15 for a next purchase. The trick was to get 6 $1 coupons which equaled $12 +$15=$27 ....out of pocket=$3 and then 3 more $5 coupons would print out and you beg your neighbor friends or anyone you can for more double coupons and go back I pretty much lived ...