If we’re ever gonna get to this Happy Healthy Home I strive to have then we have to start somewhere.
First step to a Happy Healthy Home started family walks in the evenings. We had supper, gave the kids baths, and then decided to take a few laps around the apartment complex. I’m hoping we can do that every night. A nightly walk will actually do several things. Besides the basic function of helping get the family healthy it also gives us extra family time, and gets me and the girls out of the house (even if it is just literally outside the house). Having two kids under the age of three makes it hard for one person to go anywhere during the day. On occasion we do meet up with my friends and their kids for an outing but on those occasions I have help. By myself it’s easier just to stay home than try to pack everything and everyone up for something as simple as going to the store. So the walk around the parking lot is a good help for my sanity.
Step two to a Happy Healthy Home is potty time. This might seem a bit odd to most but I feel getting potty time under control will really help our family function better. We currently have two children in diapers, our two year old and our 2 month old. So we will be making a change with both of them. Our two year old has now started potty training. We have a potty at our house, a potty at her nana and papaw’s. we have big girl panties ready, her own wipe container ( which will be decorated soon) for her bathroom, and as soon as we find them cloth training pants. With our littlest one we will be switching to cloth diapers. Still researching to find the system that’s right for our family. I will write a post on our potty time journey with more details soon.
Step three to a Happy Healthy Home is financial security. There that’s the easy part, saying it. Now onto the hard part, living it. In an effort to get financial security me and the hubs will be taking a Dave Ramsey financial university class at a local church in September. I’m excited about it, hubby is a little iffy on it just because its not some financial expert teaching the class but just church members. I’ve researched Dave Ramsey methods before and I like, and already use, several of the methods but it’ll be nice to really know how they are supposed to work and put it all together. About a year ago I got a credit report for each of us. Our credit is pretty horrible. Mine from a messy divorce and my husbands from a little too adventurous adolescence and early adulthood. Nothing that can’t be fixed w it’s time but we certainly couldn’t get a decent loan right now. The goal is to learn a lot in this class, put the methods into practice, and be almost debt free in a year.
There are certainly many more steps in our Happy Healthy Home journey but we will take those steps when The Lord is ready to lead us toward them. For now we will just do the best we can with what The Lord has provided us and wait for further inscription from him.
