Jones Family Covenant

I thought I would share our Covenant with everyone.

The Jones Family always

• Loves and serves God

• “And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul” Deuteronomy 10:12

• helps others

• “This is what the LORD Almighty says: Judge fairly and honestly, and show mercy and kindness to one another. Do not oppress widows, orphans, foreigners, and poor people. And do not make evil plans to harm each other.” Zechariah 7:9-10

• loves kids

• "Do you hear what these children are saying?" they asked him. "Yes," replied Jesus, "have you never read, " 'From the lips of children and infants you have ordained praise?" Matthew 21:16

• opens their home and hearts

• “Share with God's people who are in need. Practice hospitality.” Romans 12:13

• forgives each other

• “Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, "Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother when he sins against me? Up to seven times. Jesus answered, "I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times “ Matthew 18:1-22

• uses kind words when we leave each other

• laughs together

My Brilliant Plan

Today my brilliant plan was to sit down to "help" Isabel with her homework. Well, my first mistake is that I told her I would be nice. Isabel is not a hurrier, nothing is urgent to her. So we sat down at 3:30 or so to do a paragraph from her spelling words, write her spelling words in alphabetical order and one math worksheet with 15 problems. It is now 5:10, I have not been nice, she has not hurried and I once again am feeling like I am possibly the worst mother in the world. I love my children more than I love my own life and would do absolutely anything for them except give them baths and help with homework apparently. That is where my patience ends. Don't get me wrong, God has increased my patience so much over the last few years that I hardly recognize myself at times but there are still these times that remind me that I need to rely on Him and not myself.

They made it through the day

Of course, when I picked up the girls from school today, they were smiling from ear to ear. I had to fight urges to pick them up all day. I made it. Isabel has made a complete recovery from not liking me for holding her back. She made at least 2 or 3 new friends today.

I would love to know, however, if there is anywhere in the Frisco area to buy jazz shoes. In typical style, waited until the last minute and now Isabel has dance class tomorrow.

Finally blogging

I have been fighting the blog thing for a long time. I have finally given in to peer pressure. Oh how weak I am.
Isabel and Abigail are headed back to school and I truly don't know what happened this year. They are so upset to go back to school and it is not usually that way at all. They are usually ready to go and happy. We did all the usual things we do to get ready and tried to keep to our routine. I guess they are just getting older. I always read so much into everything though and automatically go into full worry mode.
Hopefully soon, we will be adding pictures! Be patient.