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Help With Your Mother's Rule
Help With Your Mother's Rule is a forum for women who want trouble-shooting
help with their Mother's Rules or about any aspect of the 5 Ps of
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Side-Tracked!
Dear Holly,
Boy, am I struggling with disciplining myself to stick with my rule. More often than not I am so side-tracked! And honestly, I feel that it is not honorable distractions but pure slothfulness. If anybody has any advice on how to fight that I would sure welcome it. I have my rule posted on the wall, but I am so inconsistant at staying at it. The poor kids never know if I'm going to expect them to stick to it or not. I feel like such a failure in this area.Labels: 2nd P Person, About a Rule of Life
posted by Holly at 10:11 AM
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Husband's Schedule Mixes Up Mother's Rule
Dear Holly,
As I finally get my children to bed, here I sit, exhausted and frustrated. I simply don't know how to handle the fact that my husband's schedule is completely unpredictable and keep any kind of consistent rule. Does anyone have a rule that doesn't depend in some way on her husband?
My first P depends on the fact that he can be here until 7 am so I can do my morning prayer. Over the last 2 weeks, I think I've done it twice. He is either gone to an early meeting or sleeping as late as possible because he is exhuasted. I end up doing it in the shower, or 2 hours late after the baby goes down for her nap. Also, so I can have my Adoration time, he needs to be here Thursdays by 8 pm. Every night before we go to bed I ask him where he is working the next day (he switches locations), if he'll be home for lunch, and if he has any early morning/evening obligations. To no avail, and due to no fault of his own, something always comes up. And I do mean always! I even missed my last Confession date (a Sat. am once a month) because there was a breakfast he had to attend 45 mintues away. I'll spare you the details, but he didn't get home until after 2:00 pm. He has to spend time out of state, and when he comes home, we have a wonderful family evening together. but then, like today, he calls and says that there is a meeting at 6:00 pm he has to go to. This, of course means his dinner is on hold. He also told me that there is a wake he as to attend tomorrow evening at 5:30 - so he will again miss dinner with us and bedtime. In the last 2 weeks, we have had 2 dinners together as a family.
I am so thankful that he has a job and works so hard to provide for our family. I am blessed that when he is here he pitches in every way. But I am feeling sabotaged and don't quite no what to do. Anyone else been through this?Labels: 3rd P Partner
posted by Holly at 7:56 AM
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Room Purposes and Prayer Spots
Dear Holly,
I am about to jump into a serious decluttering of my possessions. Can you give some examples of the "purposes" for different rooms? Especially the rooms shared by all the family. Can rooms have more than one purpose (or MANY purposes)? Also, can you give some examples of ideas for a prayer spot, or advice on how to go about picking one?Labels: 5th P Provider
posted by Holly at 3:07 PM
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A Difficult Transition
Dear Holly,
My husband and I have 6 children, ages 10 down thru to 3 months. We began homeschooling our oldest four this year at the end of their 1st quarter in a Catholic School. Up until this time our kids had attended the Catholic school, which is 30 miles from our home. We live in a small town amidst a farming community. We are all making adjustments and feeling our way through this. I have lots of concerns and doubts, but I also have days I am very assured this is the right choice for our family. However, our kids are having a rather difficult time making the adjustment. When it comes right down to it, I think they mostly miss their friendships. Their Catholic school was a small school with a very family-like environment. The classes were small, and the friendships formed were close. I have now become "the person who has taken them away" from their friends and I feel like they resent me. I have tried to keep the connections between those friends but the distance and family circumstances (new baby, illnesses, etc.) have made it somewhat difficult. Because we live in such a small, rural community those activities that might be available in larger communities just aren't here for an outlet or change of pace. To keep from going on any longer, do you have any advice for making the transistion easier on them? I only know of two other families who homeschool in our area and they have always homeschooled so this isn't a situation they are familiar with. Are there other women who have made a change similar to ours and could share what worked for them?Labels: Homeschooling
posted by Holly at 2:42 PM
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