Mommy Moments

OK, I am not and never have been a "perfect" Mom.  I am however an experienced Mom.  What this means is that I have had, and still do have many children, ages 13 through 28 years of age.  I have made, and will still make many mistakes.  Plus, I have children that span a large age range, so...I have experience with different ages also.  This Experience does not make me so much smarter than everyone else, but this is experience that I would love to share with others.

 I am a big proponent of women teaching other women. I have always watched and listened to other women for advice and answers to problems. Most of what I could share with you would be advice that I also learned from older more experienced Moms.  That being said, I would like to share, from time to time, some really practical advice about being a Mommy.  Hopefully, what I share will be helpful.  I was also thinking that I wish I had done this years ago with my first child; so that, any time after, I could just tell the offending child to "go read my blog."  :) ha ha ha

So today, I want to talk about something very practical that will help with a lot of unnecessary arguments between the kids:  My older kids used to call "shotgun!", as they went to the car.  Most of you know, this meant that they got the front seat.  The problem with this system was that Shane was always quicker, so I had to tell Shane that is was Sean's turn and then I was the policeman of the front seat situation.

Any time that you can eliminate yourself from being a referee between your kids the better.  So, my husband (not a older wiser woman/mommy, but...very wise), had a great idea:  Our two younger kids have birth dates that are odd and even.  So, on odd days, Josh gets the front seat and on even days, Ashlee does.  This is awesome for these two espescially, because we share custody and we can't always be around to referee their arguments.  They have adapted to this very well and we never have an argument about who rides in front.  We also use this system to keep track of who's turn it is to do dishes and who's turn it is to empty the trash.

So, that's my Mommy Moment for today.  Tons more coming soon!

Please tell us all if you have a great system also.  Would love to hear from you!