Take 7 Challenge- 7 Things to Say to your Child this Week

Choose one Challenge to SAY to your child this week.

1. Who wants ice cream?
2. You are so good at _______________.
3. Want to help me make dinner?
4. You know what I love about you? EVERYTHING! You know what I’d change about you NOTHING!
5. Can you help me fold this pile of clothes?
6. Do you want to play a game?
7. YES! try to say YES at least once a day to your kids…. YES!!

From: 24/7 MOMS Live Web Cast 7/7/09

Take 7 - Grocery Dollar Savings

Choose one challenge to begin saving money on your grocery bill
From: 24/7 MOMS Live Web Cast 6/30/2009

1. Find 7 Coupons this week
2. Spend 7 minutes organizing your coupons
3. Buy 7 things on sale this week that YOU need
4. Plan 7 meals - planning means saving

Take 7 -Showing Dad Love

Choose ONE way to show the “father” of your children LOVE
From: 24/7 MOMS Live Web Cast 6/16/2009

1. Write a note, post-it, IM or email thanking him for being a great father.
2. Serve him breakfast or coffee in bed.
3. Watch a guy flick with him
4. Clean up his mess without complaining this week.
5. Give him a night out with the boys
6. Buy him lingerie (of course in your size)
7. Buy a good marriage book for YOU to read- I.E. Sheet Music or Sex begins in the Kitchen by Kevin Leman.

Take 7 - 7 Minute Orange Julius

Yummy summer drink in 7 minutes with under 7 ingredients.
From: 24/7 MOMS Live Web Cast 6/1/2009

Orange Julius

1 can (6 oz ) frozen Orange juice concentrate
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup milk
1 cup water
1/2- 1 cup sugar
12 ice cubes
blender

Place ingredients in a blender and blend until ice is thoroughly blended and crushed.

Option: add in one banana or a 4-5 strawberries for additional fruit flavors.

TAKE 7 - The 24/7 Challenge

7 Things to TEACH your Kids this Summer
As Talked about on 24/7 MOMS Live

All those things we don’t seem to have time teach our kids during the school year.

1. TEACH Generosity - Watch neighbor’s pet, offer to water lawns, deliver cookies or dinner to someone in need, offer to mow neighbor’s grass…

2. TEACH Independence- Tie shoes, potty training, riding a bike, expand boundaries; take a babysitting course, Drivers Education.

3. TEACH Practical Life Skills- Learn to cook/ clean/ sew (sewing on a button), gardening, open a checking account.


4. TEACH Responsibility- Learn to pick up after themselves, create homes for belongings, give weekly responsibilities to help things run smoothly-laundry, cooking dinner, cleaning up backyard/bedroom.

5. TEACH Family Values- Implement a Family Night, game night or devotional night as a family.

6. TEACH Fun- do the unexpected, ice cream for lunch or dinner or backwards dinner- dessert first then main meal, flashlight tag, play practical trick-rearrange bedrooms, or do something fun together -take a pottery painting class, learn to bowl, take tennis lessons together, go on a girls’ day out or date your sons.

7. TEACH to the Imagination- schedule uninterrupted play….one day without TV, games, electronic devices… bring out the paper, colored pencils, paint. Prepare a dress up box. Read a book together about pirates or Christopher Columbia and sail away on a boat…the sky is the limit, create a high school memory book, or learn a new craft- knitting or beading.

What do you want to TEACH your child this summer?

TAKE 7 -7 Things for Moms to do

7 Things For MOMS To Do In 7 Minutes
From: 24/7 MOMS Live Web Cast 5/13/2009

1. Spend 7 minutes calling your Dr. and Dentist and make annual appointment.

2. Read a magazine for 7 minutes.

3. Spend 7 minutes cleaning out a junk drawer.

4. Read your Bible for 7 minutes.

5. Spend 7 minutes painting your nails.

6. Take 7 minutes to tell your husband one of his qualities you admire in him.

7. Read 24/7 MOMS blog for 7 minutes.

Join us NEXT week on 24/7 MOMS Live for another TAKE 7