Well at the end of the day as my muscles hurt and I am exhausted, I can't help but do anything but smile...

This morning started with me making the house rules chart, listing all the rules and making the kids each sign it showing that they understood what I said (yes, I helped the little ones LOL).. Then I decided over the weekend that I was going to participate in a Clean Heart Clean Home Challenge (you can find the info about it here: http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/DandelionSeeds/THE+CHCH+CHALLENGE/

I am using her concepts but doing things a little out of order..as she starts with the front yard, that one gets kept up for us alot better than the back yard so I gathered up the herd and said let's go outside and do the 2nd shed and patio area..4 hours later I have a beautiful looking patio and a shed that is organized where the doors now shut.

Besides working on decluttering and cleaning I am working very hard to get calmness in my house..I am just tired of all the yelling, screaming, temper tantrums..so I have set up a chair where I would be bored stiff to sit in as I can't talk to anyone, play with anything, just sit there and look at the wall..so instead of arguing with the kids or spanking them (things that got me no where) I put them in this chair to think about what the child has done wrong..they have to sit there according to how old they are..when their time is up they have to get up and apologize to the offender..hug and voila we got thru the whole ordeal without screaming!! A couple of the kids have tested me today but I haven't had to yell once..so hooray for mom and Super Nanny!! I got the idea from her show and her use of the "naughty chair"

Well this mom is wiped..so until next time

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