Ravioli

Good morning! Here we are Monday again! For those who don't know I rise early (5am) as I have much to do each day. My children are fairly early risers as well. Sarah up on her own around 6 am and Timothy shortly after BUT I do need to wake up my older 2 boys. Each day they get up--I wake them up--at 6:45am in order for them to get dressed and pick up their rooms (items left on the floor are cleaned up by me after they leave for school at a cost of .50 per item and that can add up). They make and eat breakfast and do Kumon (math work). If they do Kumon without complaining I will make lunch for them, if they complain, they make lunch for themselves. Usually they have time to spare before I send them off to meet the bus. So, readers, today I woke them the usual way by calling into each room, "time to get up" but I also added as I walked between rooms, "this is the day that the Lord has made, I will rejoice and be glad in it." To my delight there was not a single one of the usual grumbles as they got up out of bed. I mean really how can you grumble after someone just said THAT?? But Andrew, being his typical self, called out, "Ravioli!"