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If I could commend one thing to parents of young kids like I have right now I think it would be to have a memorization plan. Have something to daily work on with your kids on memorizing. A catechism, scripture, family values,... something of value. They can easily memorize it. Especially if it's set to music and it will stick with them for their whole life. I remember songs that my parents played for me as a kid. Our family has been working through a catechism a week from New City Catechism . It's nothing special as far as how we do it. We just sing the songs together as a family before bed every night. But our kids are memorizing important truths about God every week in a question-and-answer format. If you have young kids their minds are sponges that soak up anything that they see, hear, and experience in a day. As their parents, we have the opportunity to majorly influence what those things are.

My slog lately has felt more like a sloth's slog. I see it in my desire to even write on my blog. I just don't have a ton of motivation lately. I have a lot of ideas in my head and I enjoy learning about opportunities that are out there, but I don't know where to focus on and what all it would take. One of the last things I wrote about on here is revamping our website for our vacation rental properties and I still need to get that done here over this next month. I haven't touched it in months. It's easier to get distracted by other possibilities for additional income than focusing on what we have right now. On a totally different note, our family spent a couple hours working together raking leaves for some older people who can't rake leaves anymore. Our kids loved it and it was great to do something like that as a family serving others. We were thankful for that opportunity. I was also able to do some little house projects yesterday which always makes me feel go