The Sunday Jar

So I'm a not-so-very-good-blogger.
I stink at it actually.
However, in the event of deleting Facebook and still wanting to do family updates I'll try my best to be better at it...
even if nobody reads it, because later on I might need to be the one to re-read it.

Also there's the Sunday Jar.

On my night stand sits a little glass jar that used to house some strawberry jam from Smuckers. It has a red and white pinic-blanket looking checkered top and a silvery blue paper wrapped around its middle with the words "90 ways to keep the Sabbath day holy." The Sunday jar is stuffed full of strips of papers with different activities to keep Sundays uplifting, rejuvenating, and family oriented.

The Sunday Jar is nothing new. Many people have different versions of the Sunday Jar to keep their Sundays "fresh". On Pintrest I found the Sunday 'can' jar by Mormon Mom planner . She talks about how on Sunday it's easy to just plop down and sleep all day but how the Lord asks us to keep it Holy by setting it aside as a separate day from the rest of the week to worship, bond as a family,  pray, and serve others. She says, "there is a lot of Thou Shalt Not's on the Sabbath Day, so I like the approach of the Sunday 'cans' to show just how much we Can do on Sunday's." 

So, with that being said, the strip Lil Man happened to pick out of out Sunday Jar this Sunday was to "Write a family newsletter to send out to family members". In the past we've picked out:
1.Plan out ways you can be more productive with your family history work
2. Go visit family members you haven't seen for awhile.
3. Go through old church magazines you don't look through anymore and pick out pictures you like, read the stories that go with them, and then frame those pictures to have in your home. (This one made a good FHE!)
and
4. Come up with a unique way to get together with those you visit or home teach. (My idea for this one was my Mommies Hobbies group I've been trying to get back together in some fashion. More on that later.)

As you can see we've been kept busy by simple tasks that we have a whole week to complete before the next Sunday but it goes right along with planning the week and preparing for new ways to come closer as a family.

This past week we've been moving along the normal everyday projects such as laundry, dishes, cleaning the house, playing with toys, watching Netflix, cooking, eating, etc. But also this week:

Mommy and daddy had a date night talking about and figuring out our finances using this video by Jordan Page from funcheaporfree.com and her husband while big brother went over to Grandma L's house to spend the night and baby sister was asleep. It took us 4 hours but we worked it all out and even though it was all business talk I know I still enjoyed my time with the hubby. :)

Lil Man has been keeping things busy and fun as an almost 3 year old full of imagination. One of my favorite stories this week was from Tuesday the 17th of October 2017. You were playing with your legos and daddy had to come in and out before work since he kept forgetting things he needed. When he left for real Lil Man said "Thank you for coming daddy," and he said "oh your welcome, any time." When he shut the door Lil Man ran over to me and said "daddy's running away mommy! Daddy's running away" and I told him that "daddy's not running away, he's going to work."

Lil Lady has been super mobile as of late since she's gone from Army crawl to full on crawling now. She's starting to follow daddy and mommy around and she LOVES to play with brother, when he's nice. Brother also loves to have her around and asks to play with her often. He's also getting better at sharing with the little lady and calling her "my baby sister". Lil Lady LOVES apples and is more than
happy to stick anything in her mouth given to her or not given to her so we've been trying to keep things a little more clean around here but she still comes up from the ground black most days from all the dirt.

Overall, we've been having some rough and not super eventful weeks lately but as we get closer to Halloween we have some fun events lined up and we can continue to grow closer as a family!

Until next week!
-The Gillilands
:Written by Megan