Saturday, June 11, 2011

Relaxing, yet learning...

Gabriel and Jeremiah.

I don't post much and this will be my goal for the new year, I think it will be so cool to keep sort of a journal for us to have and share online.

This past month we made a routine with the work boxes and now that I have the system down and the children understand and love it. We are just relaxing.

We set up a pool and they are having long days enjoying the water. At the same time we keep learning but in a totally different way. We have our garden and is great to find what kind of new fruit or veggie will be ready for picking, is nice to get to plant something new too and watch the plants peek out of the ground and grow into mature plants.
We've done a load of landscaping work and the kids haven't miss one little bit, they have been helping us along the way.
Laundry is usually a fun thing (for me anyways) to get them to help with and learn how to sort the colors or the towels and then carry to the laundry area and get it going.
This past month Angie (now 7) got her first daily chore, now she empties the dishwasher every day. I like that she is learning to do her part to keep things in place.

Books from the library keep coming every week and so is fun to get new interesting things to read. Our subscription to little passport is really fun, they play travel the world almost everyday and get to use the map and the goodies that we get every month.

Another thing they love to do and learn more is about our business, they keep pretending to be calling stores or receiving stores with huge orders to fill in. Then they have to (pretend) call all of our suppliers and order things before our inventory runs out. lol!

I love my children! I love my Family! Thank you Lord!

Monday, May 9, 2011

Workbox once again.

Today we started the workbox system once again. The kids loved it and did all of their work, they were very motivated to finish their tasks knowing what was next.

I found some wonderful fun activities at Totally tots!


Daddy was very impressed with the new system and will work on some ways to help me perfect it, I have a problem with the Velcro stickers staying in place, I tried making the box numbers and strips in a magnet strip but that didn't work either, so we will try something new with dad's help.


It was so nice to have them happily finish all of their work and have so much time left to do whatever they wanted to.

More about our day<=