My Bag of Tricks: Room Time
How do I keep my sanity? How do I get dinner fixed? What are some tried and true methods I have learned over the past few years of parenting? In my bag of tricks is ROOM TIME !! Almost every day around 5:00 pm, I send my boys to their rooms for some alone time. I leave them with special toys they haven't seen in awhile or a box set aside for special times like this. Here are few examples of our Room Time boxes. (Nothing great, but when YOU make the items in the boxes special, your kids will think they are special, too!) Box 1: Coloring books and crayons Box 2: Stationary, markers, stickers, etc. Box 3: My old coupon box with expired coupons, sticky notes, and a bag of colored pens and highlighters for writing a "grocery list." (I can only trust my 5 year old with this box...the other 2 would probably draw all over the walls/carpet/themselves.) Item 1: Clock puzzle Box 4: Sea shells that Mimi and Grandbob brought back from the beach Item 2: Truck Puzzle Book Box 5: Easy pu...
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Such adorable kids!! Such adorable parents!! You are definitely a busy family. How fun to have Derek off for a while to be all together. And a swimming party too! You guys are truly blessed. One day you will look at your grown sons and wonder where the time went. You will want to have held them a little longer, told then you love them a few more times and wish you could hold them at that age just a few more times before they are off on their own. It is such fun to watch them grow into adults and see how their lives develop, too. So much to thank God for in our lives. We are thankful for you guys and wish we could see you more often.
Love you!!