Today is…Wednesday Oct 20, 2010
Wow.
Today was busy.
Too busy.
Trying to stuff in Gym, a library reading/craft program, a frustrating optometrist visit, and a lot of walking into one morning is just too much.
Next week our Wednesday will look much different, but for today…
We prayed.
Well, not right away. First Mommy and Giant were having some issues.
About cleaning.
Or rather, not cleaning.
And some licorice that was given to one boy who was cleaning and not to another who was not cleaning.
(no, I don’t bribe my kids…regularily. However, sometimes it is nice to be able to show immediate consequences for actions that don’t really have natural immediate consequences. So, sometimes, I pull out rewards/thank-yous to help express the positives. Which, in turn, also helps kids realize some tragic negatives)
This, rather bigger boy, was busy throwing a tantrum.
And, since I really wasn’t seeing how I could settle the feelings in our home enough to have productive chalkboard time with Giant, Ettin and I drew some lines on the chalkboard.
I zoomed lines across the board, up the board, and in circles. All the while trying to get Ettin to copy me:
Then Giant came over and asked if he could draw.
As he was no longer grumping, I helped him wash the board and got him some chalk (Ettin had wandered off to play with trains).
He drew a bit, and wanted to tell me abouts what he was drawing. Seeing an opportunity for some relationship rebuilding, I drew some pumpkins with him:
Sometimes, —okay, maybe all the time— relationships are just more important than letters and numbers. That’s what we were working on this morning, apparently.
Then, as I mentioned before, we prayed.
We looked at the Picture of Lehi Prophecying to the People of Jerusalem. We talked about how Heavenly Father loves us so much that he gives us Prophets to teach us what we need to do to be happy and make good choices. And that we can make bad choices and be unhappy, but its better to make the good choices and be happy (I may have been hinting at some earlier choice making here):
Then we ran around town crazy-like:
We went to the Gym.
We went to a Library, “Tales for Tots” program. Here a wonderful lady reads the children stories, sings them songs, plays games with them, and then does a craft with them. Fun! But very tricky with a two year old (the program starts at 3 years old). And a little baby. And a very shy 4 year old who doesn’t want his mom to leave the room to take the 2 year old and baby to the younger kid play area. So, due only to my lack of stamina, I don’t think we’ll be doing this again next week.
Then we went to the optometrist.
Why? Because last night Giant came to us holding his glasses.
In two pieces.
Two very un-fixable pieces.
So now he looks like this (yes, those pics are related to homeschooling. He is watching some ‘educational’ dvds while Mommy finishes up her freezer meal work—and I think I really am done with that now…for a while):
until we can get new frames for him.
In a week, says the frustrating optometrist office, because they have no frames which fit his current lenses.
Poor kid!