Finding Sanity:A Goal for Errand/Work Day

Today's goal: Love each other well. This is what we determined this morning while leaving the house. Great way to start out on a day of errands and cleaning. A day that would usually end up with frustration, harsh words on both sides, and everyone in dire need of a nap and space. Every time we had an issue of irksomeness, we recited our goal for the day and I'm amazed at the adjustment it produced. I may just have a canvas made of this goal and add it to our family rules. Probably wouldn't hurt to paste it a billion other places as well as we are most certainly not perfect and need to be reminded to "love each other well" sometimes on a constant basis...especially on hard days.

This morning we started out with chores. For the kids, that mostly means feeding/watering their animals. We have found that our Zoe girl is a little farm girl. She loves all of the rabbits and even said while we were at Atwoods picking up more rabbit feed, "when I grow up, I'm going to do all of my shopping here!"

Next we headed to Wal-Mart: the bane of my existence. Drama, much? At least Zoe comes by it honestly. I needed dog food, which is much less expensive there, as well as a few things for our trip to the lake tomorrow and our trip coming up next week. Can you guess how many times we recited our goal for the day while in WMart?

I decided that we did so amazingly well, especially me keeping my cool and not getting terribly frustrated with the whole process, that we would get a treat for lunch. We shared a chicken quesadilla with queso and chips at Qdoba. Yum! Well worth it.

After a stop at the bank, we headed to The Purple Glaze to pick up the kids' projects from earlier in the week. They turned out so well! We'll definitely be going back again.

We made our last stop at the library before heading home to clean and do yard work for the rest of the day. Picked up some books and got another sticker in the kids' Summer Reading Program booklets.

Hooray for a productive and fun day!