Overnighter

I am busy getting ready for my big spring overnight scrapbooking event at the Amish door. I can hardly wait. I have my pictures all printed, organized and even have picked out paper and stickers to go with each page. So each page should be relatively easy. My hope is to get at least a few pages done. I am so excited to have a big group of friends and soon-to-be friends coming. I have several coming that I do not know yet. How cool! The whole group is up to 67 people!! I have 23 of those! I love these events to get away. You come back tired but energized because you got so much accomplished. Now that's ambition in action! Hopefully I can inspire you to join me next time! What an opportunity! Can't you feel my enthusiasm!

If you didn't follow the last part, let me fill you in. I am still going through round table principles at Sunday School and at kinship. So I am immersed in this character stuff right now. Inspiration, enthusiasm and opportunity are just a few. I've got the enthusiasm down for the overnighter, now I just need to keep my attitude in check. That's a challenging one for me.

I tried my hand at inspiring Javin to be more responsible and so on. I took my group's suggestion of sitting down for "tea" to create a welcome atmosphere. We made cappuccinos instead. Yum. Javin created a list of things that he wanted to do or own someday (like a 4-wheeler). The concept of inspiration is to encourage others to follow your dreams. Then I gave a list of things that I hope to see in his life someday. Then he came up with a list of consequences that would motivate him to keep him on track. (Losing his light saber was one of them.) I made a list of my promises in how I would communicate with him. (Here is where the attitude is such a problem, but I am working on it.)

So our first "situation" arose last night and he handled his consequences very well. Now this morning, it was another story. A good nights sleep must have erased our whole conversation and he denies that we even talked about his consequences. I held my end and didn't yell or get upset. And he managed to get himself together in time to get on the bus. Yeah! Progress, I think.