Dairy

Sorry ya'll but I have to post this. Please be informed...

http://www.pcrm.org/health/veginfo/dairy.html

Little girls...

I only have a good 5 or 6 more years with Summer to directly inflence her life. Until she hits 15 or 16 she will absolutely be depending on me for knowledge of the world around her(obviously I will still be influencing her after that but not like I do now). Am I supplying her with what she needs? We as parents spend a huge amount of time worrying about our kids and the influences around them. We can directly influence our kids in so many ways. Church being one of them. Now let me tell you how many time we have gone since VBS? Zero. We will start again next week. Some mornings it is all I can do to get dressed and go over there. But where else in the world can you bring your child to learn about good values, God, and surround them with others who hold those same values? Where I bring my kids is important (even if they do not want to go). And by the way- its good for me too :0)

TV- I mean my God what are children watching? Who thinks that Hannah Montana and Disney are innocent? Have you watched a Disney channel show lately? Kissing, boyfriends, girlfriends, and cheating are common themes. What happened to kids just being kids???? I cannot even watch a show without shielding my child's eyes from the commercials. I am canceling our cable- I know there will be wailing and knashing of the teeth- but this is another way I can directly influence my child.

My behavior- if my children see me volunteering my time, giving, and generally being a nice person- won't that affect their lives?

Who I surround myself with- do my friends have these same common values?

Talking to them, reading books that are appropriate- like a children's bible. I just ordered Summer the "Lily Series" its a Christian series of books about a little girl. I also ordered "Six Ways to Keep the Little In Your Girl" I will update you with the info I found.

Why have I been thinking about all this? My little girl wanted her first bra- yep we went bra shopping. Now granted she really does not NEED one but the point is she is THINKING about these things (we actually just got one that is more like a sports bra with a stretchy piece of fabric). That is totally scarey for me. But at least I know there are things I can do to stop her from growing up so fast! She still watches PBS, plays with Barbies, plays outside, likes to read ALOT. OK let me go shed a few tears now...

School

So the kiddos started school last Tues and here is the update. Adam is LOVING it so far. He is so happy to be children his own age and he is in heaven with 3 recesses a day. He said that he has made friends but he doesn't know their names. Its so hard to let your kids go on their own knowing that someone could be mean to them. He is a pretty sensitive kid in that way and don't think its something he would come home and tell me about. Those things usually come out here and there out of nowhere. Summer is doing OK. I think it hit her the first day that this really starting all over. She was really excited to go but then was down that evening. She said everyone is staring at her and talking about her. I told her these kids have been staring at each other for 5 years so now they have someone new to stare at. and of course she is so pretty who wouldn't stare at her? But she takes it the wrong way- like she is a freak or something. She is becoming more self conscience of herself lately. I think that's part of getting closer to that preteen age. I don't think she is growing up too fast though- she still enjoys playing with Adam and watching PBS. Hopefully that won't change any time soon. I think once she gets comfortable there she will be fine. She gets nervous like me when she doesn't know what to expect. She needs that consistent routine in her life.

I am at home by myself right now at home and LOVING IT! I just need to schedule my day so that get everything done I need to do. I don't know what I will be doing - I was thinking of subbing until I figure out what is going on with this business. I keep on praying about it so I will keep you updated.

Plant life

OK so I am trying a plant based diet for 30 days- if you want to follow my progress go to my other blog:

http://jensloveoffood.blogspot.com/

I will post more tomorrow about the first week of school!

Good night