Sonlight Garden: Little Homemakers

January 16, 2008

Little Homemakers

Tonight after dinner without being asked my almost 9 year old daughter and my 7 year old daughter. Cleared the table, put away leftovers, loaded and ran the dishwasher. Bathed the 3 and 4 yr old and put on their jammies. Changed the babies diaper and put her jammies on also. WOW. And they had fun doing it and working together. I never knew how to do this at their age. Now that is what I call a priceless, precious, education.

Now, to keep this real, I am going to tell you that this doesn't happen every night in our house. (That is probably why it was fun for them) But when it does it feels so wonderful. I am so proud of my girls!

Posted at 08:12 PM in Daughters, Family, Housekeeping | Permalink

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I already commented but don't see it on the page so I'll try again--
Even if it doesn't happen like that every night it must feel great to know they CAN.

Posted by: Tiffany | January 19, 2008 at 07:12 PM

I love those moments!

Posted by: Jessica | January 20, 2008 at 08:39 PM

How sweet! When those kinds of things happen around here, I am making a concerted effort to praise it up royally. They seem more willing to do it again when I do that. I guess I can't blame them. :-)

Posted by: Lisa | January 21, 2008 at 09:00 AM

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Hi, my name is Kirsten. I am married to my best friend and we have eight awesome children. We are Catholic, loving, living, and learning about our faith every day. It is who we are. We have had some big changes for our family recently. We've moved from a small family farm in Florida to a neighborhood in Kentucky. We also homeschool some of our children. I enjoy reading, gardening, and running, and I just learned how to knit. I try to enjoy, laundry and cleaning bathrooms and sweeping floors. But what I really love is to be home, with my husband and children, living this life. This blog is where I write about the good stuff (mostly). Thanks for stopping by.

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