New Jobs at the Shields Pad...

We have been focusing on the value of work lately. Last week we talked about a quote by David O. Mckay. It says, "Let us realize that the privilege to work is a gift, that the power to work is a blessing, and that love of work is success."

I drove one of Tyler's buddies home from preschool today. I said, "you know what Elijah? when you see this car on Wed. you aren't even going to recognize it because it will be so clean!" He said, "I'll recognize it, because I know what the little buttons to roll up the window look like."

I hesitate to even admit it, but the fact is that it took me 3 WHOLE hours to clean the car! Elijah really will not believe he's in the same vehicle but for those little buttons I tell you!

I actually love cleaning a huge mess and seeing the transformation afterwards . It's rewarding. But... as rewarding as it is, I don't care to repeat it in a very long time.

I'm going to start by mentioning how good it felt to work hard and get a job done tonight in FHE. Then we'll go over all the wonderful reasons we love having our cars and what a privilege it is to own a car. I am going to get our car payments, insurance, new tires receipts (you get the picture) and we are going to see how much having these two cars costs us each month. We are going to talk about what a sacrifice it is to come up with money each month to pay for the cars. Then we are going to look at the car I cleaned. We are going to discuss how we can keep it looking that way. I'm sure they'll come up with some stuff (dad could work extra so we could pay to get it detailed etc.) :) but this is the deal when discussions over:

a) no more food in the car

b) a kid is going to clean the car every Saturday morning

c) the other two are going to do a mom job (clean out closet) or dad job (yard work)

d) we'll rotate jobs every week

To all friends and family who love and care for me:

If anyone's available to enforce A-D on Saturday mornings, I'd be much obliged!