Considering all the different interests of each family member, what would be an "ideal" vacation? Joshua wanted to go to New York City, stay in a hotel and see the Statue of Liberty. Caleb wanted to go to New York City, eat hot dogs (conies) and pizza. (Gotta love my little Southen boy for wanting some good Yankee food). My ideal vacation would be to visit my family in New York State, have real New York pizza and visit a craft store that met my quilting, scrappin' and stampin' needs. Martin was at work so he couldn't let us know of his ideal vacation. Sorry hunny maybe next time.

So by looking at what each person wanted, we were able to come up with a "cooperative" vacation. On our "ideal" vacation, we went to New York State to visit my family, then hopped down to New York City, stayed in some hotels, had pizza, hot dogs. Now here's the tricky part of cooperation. Sometimes you must compromise. I decided to compromise and not visit a craft store as South Carolina has them too, and visit the Statue of Liberty with the family. While teaching about cooperation, I'm also trying to help the boys understand that sometimes you must compromise in order to cooperate.

What does this mean: Church is not a spector sport? This was a tad difficult to explain to the boys. I used how they participate in children's choir and when they sing in the musical, they will bring joy (okay folks, work with me) to the audience.

Then we discussed who is in our extended family. After discussing that, I "drew" (an artist I am not) a tree. Thankfully Joshua figured it out right away. We'll be doing more with this topic later on.  I need to pick up some supplies and have some pictures made.