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How to get your kids to eat spinach…

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I’m going to share a secret that will blow your mind…well, that is unless this secret was already out and I just learned about it…But anyway, my kids Love spinach! I never liked spinach when I was a child. I do now, but for some reason there is this aversion to spinach with many kids and I’m not really sure why.

So my secret… Popeye. Yep. They watch enough Popeye and they’ll be asking for spinach! At least my boys did. LOL  We have Popeye cartoons on dvd, and last year they started watching it quite alot. We went grocery shopping one day and I was looking at the bagged salad, and low and behold, Kroger bagged spinach has a picture of Popeye on there, so my then 2 year old says “Papa!” which, translated means Popeye, and of course then my then 5 year old wanted to get it too, so, of course, I happily bought some.

At dinner time they proceded to eat it, raw, and pretend they were getting strong like Popeye!

Now whenever I buy spinach, they happily eat it raw and they’ll even pretend that lettuce is spinach if I don’t happen to have spinach on hand, and did I mention they eat it raw, no salad dressing or anything? LOL

So there you go. Want your kids to eat spinach? Sit them in front of Popeye for awhile. :)

Oh, yes, and when they ask if it really makes you strong like Popeye, I just told mine that it doesn’t grow your muscles like it does with Popeye, but it is good for your body.  Emphasizing that vegetables are really good for your body and help you grow healthy and strong has really helped with my kids wanting to eat vegetables. Most of the time they have no problem and they love most vegetables that I put in front of them.  It’s also very important to start right off when they start eating solids to introduce them to lots of veggies and make sure they have some at most every meal. Then there shouldn’t be any problems with them not wanting to eat them.

Well, “Me thinks it’s time to go now”

Childfree and Oreos-Not Me!

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So I did not have a nice day Saturday after not dropping off my children-All Three of them- at a friends house, and then go to the store and I did not actually get to do some grocery shopping…ALONE… and I then I did not go home and do a little cleaning. All the while, I was definately Not paranoid that I was going to get interupted by a child crying or saying “Mommmmmmyyyyyyy” !   I also did not call her after 2.5 hours to see how the kids were doing -particularly Baby- and then ask if she’d mind keeping them for another hour! :)

I also was  Not up at 1am last night eating Oreos! No Way :)

Welcome to Not Me! Monday! This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.

Such A Daddy’s Boy

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Daddy and Baby Smiling

Baby is such a daddy’s boy and it’s so cute! When daddy’s holding him, mommy is chopped liver.lol I don’t mind though. It gives me a much needed break, and daddy can’t resist how Baby reaches for him and gets upset when he walks in the room because he wants daddy to hold him!

I love seeing his little face light up and a smile just spreads across his face when he sees his daddy. If I’m holding him, he starts squirming because he is just that excited! If daddy is holding him, and I reach for him and ask if he wants to see mommy, he turns away. Sometimes he even smiles and turns away!

The other night, I was holding Baby in the bedroom while dh(ok, ok, I’m just going to call him by his name! I don’t know why I haven’t yet. Chris, there, my husbands name is Chris!) Chris was working on recording some music in our bedroom/recording studio-I can’t wait till we get a garage added on!- Anyway, so I started to carry Baby out into the living room and he actually started to get upset! He wanted to be in there with daddy!  He loves listening to the musc too!

It just warms my heart and makes me smile to watch our boys playing with thier dad, or sitting on his lap during church. Even though the two older ones tend to tackle him instead of hugging him when he gets home from work, you can tell they love thier daddy! Soon there’ll be all three of them tackling him, and he’ll be no match for them! hehe!

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Story of Baby Moses-Basket on the River

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I was reading a true story tonight that brought me on the verge of tears. Happy tears. I’ve read it before, but it’s been awhile. It was the story of baby Moses.  Tonight I was studying my bible about priorities.  I got a bit sidetracked when DH said something about Moses and I was thinking, how did Moses know that he was a Hebrew? Someone must have told him. Possibly Pharoahs daughter, who raised him as her own.  But I also remembered that when Pharoahs daughter found Moses in the basket on the river, his sister had been watching from the brush, and she asked Pharoahs daughter if she should go and get a nurse of the Hebrew women to nurse the child.

You know what, I think I’m just going to write what it says there in Exodus 2:5-10 because God tells the story so much better than me. It gives me chills every time I read it and makes me cry! I can’t imagine having to be separated from my baby in order to save his life!

” And the daughter of Pharoah came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river’s side; and when she saw the ark(basket) among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.

And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews’ children.

Then said his sister to Pharoah’s daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?

And Pharoah’s daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child’s mother.

And Pharoah’s daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the woman took the child, and nursed it.

And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharoah’s daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.”

Isn’t that just the best story? I mean Jochebed had to put her baby in a basket on the river to save him from being killed by Pharoah, and I’m sure she did not know what God had in store, though she did know that God would take care of him somehow.  I’m sure she had no idea that she would get to nurse Moses and raise him until he was old enough to be weaned or old enough to be taught?. I’m not sure how long that was in those days but I’m sure it was probably at least a couple years.  If anyone has any info on that I’d love to hear.

Can you imagine? Wow,, God worked everything out so perfectly, as he always does, and baby Moses’ mother, Jochebed, was able to be reunited with him, and she even got paid wages for it!! Jochebed was rewarded so much because of her faith that God would take care of this child.  And then for Moses’ sister to be so bold as to approach Pharoah’s daughter and ask if she should get a Hebrew woman to nurse him!

Well, I just had to share that with you all. I love it and it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside :)

P.S. Did you realise that Jochebed actually kept the law that every son born to the Hebrews was to be cast into the river? I just now realised that. Sure she hid him for 3 months until she couldn’t hide him any more, and then put him in a basket, but she did put him on the river!

Teaching and Disciplining Children-Consistancy

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I want to share something with you that has really opened my eyes lately and made me think about how consistent or inconsistent I’ve been about disciplining and teaching my children. It is so important to be consistent in what you say and do!

Wednesday night we went to church service. There is a wonderful brother in our church that always has a bag of candy with him and all the kids know about!lol. So of course, every church service, our kids stop by his pew on the way to our pew, and they each get a piece of candy.  Well, normally I tell them to wait till after church to eat it, and to put it in their pockets.  Well, there have been a couple times that we got there earlier than normal, and I allowed them to go ahead and have their candy(it’s usually hard candy,, nothing messy!).  So here is a dialogue of Nboy(our 6 year old) asking if he can have his candy right then:

Nboy: “can I have my candy now, mommy?”

Me: “No, let’s wait till after church.  Put it in your pocket”

Nboy: “but why did you let us eat it before church last time?”

Me: “We were here a bit early, and it doesn’t matter what you got to do last time, what matters is that I’m telling right now to wait till after church”

Well, I don’t know that sometimes letting them have their candy before services is all that bad,,But,, it did make me think about other times that I get a bit lazy and maybe don’t discipline them for some things that I normally would. Or I tell them that they can do something, but then I change my mind because I don’t feel like dealing with it right then, or I forgot.

I’m sorry to say that I think I do this too often, and that needs to change. Children need consistency in discipline and when we tell them that they can or can’t do something. What does it say to them when we are always changing our minds?  Or when they get punished for jumping on the bed most of the time, but sometimes they don’t? Or they don’t usually get punished for jumping on the bed, but sometimes they do?

God says in His Word: “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it” Prov. 22:6

If we train them in Gods way, they will grow up that way. If we train them in inconsistency, then that is how they will grow up..

God also says: “And ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord”

What kinds of things provoke children to wrath, do you think? We may think more along the lines of child abuse or not showing them love, but what about being inconsistent in disciplining and teaching? What about us not living what we are teaching them?(being hypocrites) What about us not doing the things we tell them we are going to do?

We need to take teaching and disciplining our children seriously and not get lazy about it. It definately takes discipline on our part, but if we want our kids to grow up respecting us and ultimately God, we’ve got to practice what we preach, and follow up with our word.

Well, I leave you with that thought for tonight. I definately welcome any comments or added thoughts on this subject!

You Capture-Reaching

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This picture is kind of fuzzy, but I thought it was a great picture for the reaching theme.  Don’t we all feel this way at times? Reaching so hard for something, and getting so frustrated because we can’t quite get it?  Many times we just need to quit trying to do things on our own and just let God take care of it!

This post is for the weekly challenge at I Should Be Folding Laundry

Baby Reaching For Toy