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Responsibilities of the Oldest and Youngest



I began this 9/25/15. I am going to publish it as is. I am sure I had a story for each about each of my children, but I only made it to two.
My heart is full of love and joy for the blessing my children are to me. Each one of them are working through their own set of challenges and are blossoming. I came home from work yesterday to find that Spencer had fixed the car. On his own. It was making a weird noise before he left school and he and a friend checked it out and determined that it was an easy fix and that he could drive home with it the way it was, but it should not be driven more than that until it was repaired.

He went to the auto parts store and purchased the part and fixed it. Just like that. Wow! How awesome that he is developing the skills and taking the initiative to be responsible for the maintenance of the car he gets to drive. Notice I didn't say "his" car even though he likes to think of it as that. I was so impressed and proud of him for doing that.

Sarah has been having trouble being responsible getting her homework done this year. I am sure it has a great deal to do with my not being home when she gets home from school. Let the mommy guilt begin. I have been helping her in the evenings, but there was still one page left in her packet that didn't get completed. Last night she and Estelle had an Activity Day Daddy Daughter night. She didn't do her homework before she left and it was much too late to do it when she got home. I knew she still had that page and figured that she would be going "study hall" today instead of "Fun Friday." However, when I got out of the shower this morning she was sitting at the table, dressed, (hair not done), completing her homework. This was the first time she had shown any responsibility towards her homework this year--hooray. We are making progress!



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