Peace...

I have recently begun reading a blog called Simple Mom (I know, many of you have probably been reading this one for a while).

Yesterday they started a series called Back to the Basics. The first post was about developing a family mission statement.

She had a list of questions to ask yourselves to get started on your statement. One of the questions was Name three adjectives we would like people to use to describe our home environment.

The first adjective that came to my mind was peaceful. I would like our home to be peaceful. I would like it to be relaxing, calm, and peaceful.

I find our house to be loud and chaotic. I would love some serenity.

I shared this information with my husband last night when he got home. So now instead of asking our children to "quit that" or "leave your brother alone" we are going to ask them if they are being peaceful. Quite honestly, it seemed to work.

We ask them this, we don't yell it at them; well, because that wouldn't be peaceful would it?

I can't wait to get started on the rest of our family mission statement.