Well, I am putting in to practice several evolving plans to make us all bigger faster stronger better. The most important to me right now is a system to streamline our afternoons to help us avoid the temptation to simply plug the kids in when the evening-crazies hit. As usual, I feel like a little more structure and planing on my part will be the key. So, here's the action-plan.
When the kids wake up form naps we will have a snack time. No linger will I simply hand them oranges to peal and fill up their bowls with nuts. From now on they will have to help set up for the snack, make the snack and clean up from the snack. Today we will make ants on a log.
After snack we will have craft time. Today we will be making valentines sun catchers out of contact paper, glitter, and ribbon. (pictures tomorrow)
On nice (or nice enough) days craft time will be followed by outside play time. Come on above freezing days!!!
The kicker for us is always dinner prep time, when Smoochy is fresh-home from work and in need of a little unwind time, and I am elbow deep in raw chicken. This is USUALLY when we resort to a little Bob the Builder on Netflix. But no more! I FINALLY have a library card (that is a whole blog post for another day) so today I checked out A TON of books on CD. So, my plan is to get the kids settled down with an audio book (with the real picture book in front of the to follow along with) while I am chopping veggies and setting the table.
Wish me luck. I've got to go get ready for the afternoon excitement!
A random picture of Georgia because she has beautiful eyes.
(PS: forgive what spelling and grammar errors you have found above. I only gave myself 10 minutes to blog today!)
4 comments:
Georgia has your eyes! LOVE all your ideas!
She does have beautiful eyes!
Your craft room looks like my entire house! Cluttered...but at least I know where almost everything is!!
And Georgia does have beautiful eyes...so so blue!
You know, for soupy chaos... it's a beautifully crafty mess!
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