The Mediocre Mom's Guide to Greatness

Wednesday February 10th, 2010

Monthly Goal:

Today I didn’t yell at Max when he was starting to loose it while doing his homework.  I don’t know what it is but he has been crying a lot lately about the dumbest things and I’m beginning to loose my patience but I didn’t today.

Don’t forget to leave a comment about something good you did today so you can be entered to win a $25 gift card.  Go here to read more about the giveaway.

Today’s Activity:

Plan a date night with your sweetie.

Note:

This is Valentines weekend so plan something extra special.  We usually sit around and wait for the man to be romantic but I’m sure he’ll be thrilled if you surprise him with a little romance.

Evaluate:

This was an easy one for me.  My in-laws have a Valentines dinner dance at their church every year.  It is always so much fun so that will be our date this week.

RECOGNITION:

Amy taught her daughter to make home made noodles!  Talk about patience!  I’d love to have her teach ME how to make noodles!

Joylyn took her kids to the park and stayed longer than she had planned!

Way to go ladies!  I’m sure your kids had a fabulous day!

Tags: date night, Giveaway, recognition
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Monday February 1st, 2010

Monthly Goal:

Sometimes us women are WAY too hard on ourselves and I think that we need to celebrate our accomplishments rather than dwell on our weaknesses.  So this month’s goal is to focus on the positive things you do.  Then leave a comment about something good you did that day.  Every mom needs a little recognition and we all know that our husbands and children don’t always give it to us so I say, let’s toot our own horn!  It doesn’t have to be huge.  It could simply be, “Today, I really wanted to yell at my kids and I didn’t!”  Let us celebrate your accomplishments with you.  Because focusing on our best qualities can be hard I’m going to motivate you with a little bit of a prize.  The person I get the most comments from will win a $25 gift certificate to a restaurant in their area.  If there is a tie then I will do a random drawing.  Please only leave one comment at day.  No fair leaving ten every day.  I will participate in this as well and post it on my daily blog posts.

Today’s Activity:

Plan an upcoming Birthday party.  If your kids are like mine they love to plan and talk about their next birthday even if it is eleven months away.

Note:

If there is a birthday coming up right away you can do some detailed planning, otherwise just let your kids brain storm about their dream birthday party.

Evaluate:

Max’s 6th birthday is just around the corner.  At first he said he wanted a baseball party but then it was a Batman party and then an Iron Man Party and then a Super Hero party.  Personally I thought the baseball party was a great idea and he had a super hero party last year so I did a little manipulating.  I told him a few game ideas that I had for an indoor baseball party and he seemed semi excited but then I thought of something that I knew he couldn’t turn down.  Pinatas are generally hit with bats and he LOVES pinatas!  So there you have it, we will be having a baseball party.

Prepare:

Next Thursday we will be having a family etiquette dinner so if today is your grocery shopping day then plan for a really nice formal meal.

Month Goal:

The nice thing I did for my kids today was bring them along on my birthday celebration.  We spent the weekend at Daniels Summit snowmobiling and doing the kids favorite thing (jumping from bed to bed in the hotel room).

PS…HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!!  I’m 30 but I still feel like I’m 19!

Tags: birthday party, Giveaway, goal, plan, prepare, recognition
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The Reason

To read about today’s activity go here.

These are the reasons that I make sacrifices to stay home with my kids.

Playing Sleeping Beauty with Elese. She puts on my lip gloss and then goes in my room and sings, “I know you…” and then yells, “OK prince, come in!”  Then I come in and sing and dance with her and she tells me to leave again.  While I’m gone she lays in my bed and tells me I can come back in.  I give her a kiss and ta da she wakes up.
Max. I love watching Max talk to his best friend Reed on the phone.  Reed moved to Mexico this past summer.

You can really only sacrifice for so long.  I hate to say it but I recently got a job to help us get into a house.   BUT I am not willing to sacrifice my time with my kids and husband so I will be working from 10pm-2am doing data entry at home.  I’m sure the lack of sleep with not be pleasant but my kids are worth it.  Yesterday Max said something that reminded me that they are the reason I’m going to missing out on sleep and the fact that I’m doing it for them is going to make it a lot easier!

Max:  “Mom where are you going to work for your new job?”
Me: “I’m going to work at home while you are asleep.”
Max:  “YEAH!  I wanted you to stay home.”  This comment was accompanied by a HUGE hug.

So this is just a reminder that our sacrifices don’t go unnoticed.  Our children and husbands may not always vocalize that they appreciate all that we do but when they do tell us it can really lift our spirits.

Tags: recognition, sacrifice, SAHM
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