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Save Our Sanity

We survived our first week (and it wasn’t even a full week) of the girls being back in school. They were exhausted by Wednesday, and Bryn honestly cried when I told her she has ten years of school left.

Save Our Sanity

I am writing this while on our way back from vacation with my family. We spent the week up on Vermilion Lake in northern Minnesota and enjoyed the cool weather and abundant hiking spots. I also thoroughly enjoyed the week off from housework.

Save Our Sanity

This past week I learned about the silent to-do list, and oh mylanta, this is it. It is what I deal with on a daily basis, and I bet you do too, but you just never had a term for it. The term itself comes from Japanese author Fumio Sasaki in his book “Goodbye things”.

Save Our Sanity

I came across an idea just this morning that I thought was pretty dang smart. Now, it might not be for everyone, but I can see it working for my kiddos.

Pay your kids for their toys. Instead of just asking your kids to pare down their toys, which is hard for them to do, tell them you will pay them for their toys.

Save Our Sanity

I have never been a morning person. I so wish I were. When I taught school, I was up by five every morning, but that was because I didn’t like starting my day rushed. I would rush and then feel the stress just a risin’, and it would throw off my entire day.

Save Our Sanity

On the home front, we are getting ready for a big switch and taking a break from homeschooling. I stressed from the get-go that it was always up to the girls if and when they wanted to go back to public school, and this past spring Violet expressed interested in returning to the school setting.

Save Our Sanity

The other weekend, the kids and I were in Brookings, and we were hungry. I let the girls decide where they wanted to grab lunch, and they chose McDonald’s, not my favorite. Honestly, not even top ten. I have never eaten at McDonald's and said to myself, “I am both satisfied and I feel great!” after eating there.

Fairchild Farmgirl

Excuse me, I’m looking for all this summertime that’s flown by…I can’t seem to find it. Can you believe that it’s July already? Our big plans of at least visiting the local lake once or twice so far has not happened yet. We’ve been at ball games, spent a few evenings at the pool, had a bonfire here, but done nothing at the lake. What a bummer.

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