I do not like it either! I NEED OUT!!! Being cooped up since Monday is not my idea of fun. Would I be a bad mom if I don't take my kids outside to enjoy the snow? I do NOT like cold weather.
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...
I have wanted to write this post for awhile now. Derek and I often hear a lot of the following: "Your kids don't hardly ever get sick, do they?" "Tell me about your natural childbirths." "Where is child xyz on the percentile charts?" "So what do you do when your kids DO get sick??" "What kind of supplements do you take?" "How much did child xyz weigh at his last well-child visit?" etc. I have been wanting to write this post for awhile, because, well...we just do things a little differently than a lot of people and a lot of those people don't know that about us!! Some of you might assume things about us since Derek is going into the field of Chiropractic. Or maybe you see the cloth diapers on our children and think, "Oh, brother...she's one of those moms!!" Well, maybe a lot of those stereotypes about Chiropractors and cloth-diapering moms are true about us...the Frye's!! I wanted to write this, thou...
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Stopping by from FF.