Beyond Hope or Not

3/15/13

3/13/13

Hide n seek

She counts 3, 1, 3, 1 over and over. She announces " over here ." Lbb prefers to hide directly behind the seeker. Builder is the quietest. Animal likes to keep score ( give away the hiding places).

3/11/13

BW

Nurse
2 bowls of fried rice
2 boiled eggs
1 clothes change
A "mooooom, just second. Wait"

All before 7:30am

3/8/13

Thanks to my brother in-law and cousin I can now post via my second hand iPhone.

So, what's new? Well we are moving north. 8 hours away. Bigger city. New job. Acreage. We are very excited. My husband had 2 weeks off between jobs to get the house updated. We did it. Yesterday the final papers were signed. Today the house is listed. Eek now begins the cleaning vigal. Not my strong point. I don't like to pester the kids about how to play, keeping walls in shape now that they have all been filled and painted by my wonderful mom. Art supplies and science experiments have been packed away for ease of cleaning. I had a difficult time with this decision as I believe the kids need freedom to explore their interests when they want and on their own terms. We are now relying more heavily on electronics. I have given up control about this and now let the kids manage their media time. After a bit of a binge I am happy to say they are back to more free-imagination play. Media is now just another thing they done. It feels so good to say YES.

Another new thing, my husband broke his foot. Yup. With one lat room to finish the trim in he broke it playing hockey the night before he was to start his new job. So I learned to run the chop saw and finish the base boards. The kids and I rallied together and drove daddy about. All is better. The foot is on the mend and he drove himself to work today. He loves his job so far. I am giddy with happiness for him.

Ah BW is up. More later

2/2/13

Early Morning Love

She enjoys her mornings with Daddy. Eggs in the morning to start the day. Oh, and sports highlights too.

1/25/13

The Phone

Since my phone is on the fritz again, I been trying to figure out how to take pictures using the IPhone my brother in-law donated. I have now figured out how to take pictures right side up.

We are sick again. It seems that we have been sick for months. We were ill for much of December. Then, we went away for a couple weeks. Now we are sick again. And we don't just get a cold at the same time. We draw it out into weeks at home my getting the cold one at a time. I think that we are finally on our last sick person.

Nevertheless, the kids have managed to entertain themselves fully. We have transitioned into a gaming family. My husband and I tried to hold out as long as we could, but with our recent 10 hour car ride we succumbed. Mostly, they play Angry Birds (all free versions). They just started Bad Piggies yesterday. Bad Piggies is a pretty interesting one and I find myself itching to take over the tablet when I cuddle up and watch them play. They have even decided that I need lesson time and they sit me down and show me all the different strategies they use and the powers the birds have.

I used to believe that video games were a waste of time. After reading an article that purposed that preventing kids from gaming was actually a disservice to their future, and a TED talk on how gaming can actually improve a persons life when approached from a family partnership perspective, and then sitting down and playing the games with my kids, my perspective is altered. There is actually a lot of learning that happens with some of these games. My kids tend to play cooperatively, too, so there is a lot of working together and problem solving going on as well.