Everyday

This school year our family theme is "EVERYDAY." We will be focusing on the important things we need to be doing every single day with hopes of forming lifelong habits.
Here's how it works:
We have a magical creature in the house called the "sock fairy" (she's very pretty). The children made little posters with a lonely sock attatched and paper chains 14 links long. These are hanging in the kitchen.


So every morning they have to make bed and clean up room, brush teeth, say prayers and do their affirmations (oh yes I did! Details on that later).
Every afternoon they have to do homework and/or reading and a chore.
Every evening they have to shower/bathe, brush teeth, and say prayers.
If they complete these things, they get to take a link off their chain. When the chain is gone, the beautiful sock fairy will come in the night and leave a surprise in their sock.
Simple as that. It's been very successful the last day and a half.
See how happy my big 2nd grader is on his first day of school.





He fought me on that outfit that I laid out for him the night before. Today he wore basketball shorts. Oh well.