The Richmond's

Another beautiful day here! Hope all is well wherever you are! :D

I tried something different at church today in regards to trying to get Maddie to sit still. I gave her 5 nickels in the beginning of "adult" church and we explained to her that if we had to tell her to settle down she owed us a nickel, and if she didn't have any nickels left when church was over she wouldn't get to watch her movie at naptime. Whoa, that is serious business to her! So when we picked her up at sunday school we re-explained the deal to her and asked questions to get her to verbalize she understood what the deal was one last time. She did pretty well, she lost 15 cents, 10 of it was before the offering started and the other 5 was waiting for the offereing to finish up and for the kids to be called to Children's church. I tried to add in the whole "giving" concept with her and had her give the 10 cents she lost for behavior to Jesus. I don't think she understood all of it but she knew that by the end of the day when we got home she still had some nickels left and that meant she could have a movie. Her friend Elizabeth was sitting behind us and I know they wanted to sit together but they are super chatty when they sit together so seperation is the key. :D

I'm really lacking energy or ambition today, oh, I just remembered I didn't take my thyroid medicine this morning, oops!

Love and Blessings!

He who guards his lips guards his life, but he who speaks rashly will come to ruin.

Proverbs 13:3