Ah my mandolin :)

I LOVE the mandolin! I love it! I played clarinet for 7 years and never felt for it the way I feel about my mandolin! All day, no matter what I am doing, all I can think about is when I will get to play again. I have only learned one song (Give Me Jesus) but Brian said that's a pretty hard song for a beginner and I am doing well, so I am quite proud. Chords fill my head all day, every time I hear a song, I think "I wonder if this can be played on the mandolin." Every time I sit down I pick it up, I am absolutely obsessed.

I am also a little frustrated because it turns out, no one knows what a mandolin is! How can you be 20 years old and have never heard of a mandolin? But that's a whole 'nother can of worms.

So as for my routine, it is going quite well. I actually got Brian to help clean this weekend because we were having company and that made a huge difference! So every room except my room and the babies room have been spot cleaned, and an it feels great. I have been doing very well at limiting myself to 1 hour online a day, and it's really made a difference. Now all I need is a new coffee pot and I'll be good to go all day!

I am about to make Hannah a chore chart with simple chores for each day like brushing her teeth, making her bed, putting her toys away, etc.. and I am going to get her to help me with household chores more often like helping me wash the plastic dishes and folding her own clothes. My mother never taught me to be responsible for my things, and I was never made to clean at all, so now I have a problem with it. I refuse to handicap my children in that way. She will get rewards for each day she completes all of her chores, and at the end of the week if she has done all of her chores she will get dessert before dinner! Now that's special!

Neither of the girls are feeling well this week, so I am not sure how it will go, but hopefully I will make more progress! We filed our taxes the other night and should have them back within the next week or two, then I can do number 4!!! It will probably be the best thing I do all year! So excited!

Till then, God bless!