We have never stayed on schedule all day, haha! But the schedule does help, and I am so thankful for the scheduling kit I got from titus2.org.  It is called Managers of Their Homes.  I have the others about chores and school, and they’re great, too.  Some moms look at it and feel like it is not good for them since they are a small family.  But I disagree!  I was a mess when I only had one kid, and the sc

Our kids like to read.  We have soooooo many books, and they just enjoy perusing through all sorts of them.  We are certainly not the experts on this subject, but here are a few ways that we guess they started getting interested in books. 1. One of the main reasons our kids read is that we don’t have our tv hooked up and don’t have video games.  2. One way to get them to read is to take them to a big

Over the years, as we have added more kiddos we have changed laundry systems many times. At one time, we did the once-a-week system.  That was great to get it all out of the way in one day!  That is impossible now with eight kids… During the once-a-week time, a friend of mine said that God had told her to come over on that day and do all the laundry for us!  That was my very favorite system of all :O). We