Dec. 6, 2005 - Ramblings on the day |
I don't know what I'm going to title this
one. I don't even know what I'm going to say, which is rare for
me. It seems that most of the time I get the idea of what to
write, and then sit down and it all pours out. Tonight I'm not so
inspired, but I wanted to blog anyway.
We had a fun day. It started off with me thinking there was
MOPS, so getting us all out of the house, in record time and completely
put together. We got there (a 20 minute drive), I got us out of
the car, Anders in the sling... and then I realized that MOPS was the second Tuesday of the month, not the first.
It turned out to be a great mistake, though. On non-MOPS days, we
go to the library for storytime. Since it starts later than MOPS,
we had quite a bit of extra time. So we went to a park near the
library, and played for a long time.
I admit, I don't take my boys to the park enough. E is not a natural
"player". Or maybe, the issue is that he needs a lot of
interaction to have fun at the park. I want to be able to go to the
park, and sit down on the bench and read a book while the boys
play. OK, I recognize that it isn't really a realistic vision
when my kids are 4 and closing-in-on-2. But being at the park
normally just makes me feel so tired. And DH had been taking the
boys to the park every afternoon while I cooked dinner, so I didn't
have any guilt about never getting there. With the time change and very
short days, though, they haven't been going. The best time to go
to the park really is in the morning.
Today we had a great time. And it is a very fun park.
Storytime isn't until 10:30, so I'm going to add stopping in at this
park before storytime to my schedule. It felt so good to get out
with them, and just be active. E really needs us to model for him
that it's important, even if you'd rather be reading. And A just
loves playing.
It probably helped that last night we were responsible and went to bed
at 10ish, instead of staying up until closer to midnight. When
I'm tired, I just don't function as well. Last night I told DH
that though he may do OK by staying up late and taking a nap in the
afternoon, I don't take naps well, so I do not thrive when I'm that
overtired. I can function, but my boys don't get my full
energy. I also find my times with God suffer, because I just
can't focus for very long at a time. So I asked him to do it for
me--go to bed early, that is. If he's "stuck" watching TV, then I
am to motivate him to go to bed. If I'm stuck on the computer,
then he is to motivate me. We just need to get back into the
pattern of a regular, consistent bedtime. Of coure, tonight he
went to bed early because he's not feeling well. But I'm going to
be wise and go to bed at 10, even without him to motivate me!
We also got to go to the Lawrence Hall of Science today. It's not E's favorite science museum locally (that honor belongs to Chabot Space and Science Center), but he likes it. A adored the Big Dinos Return
exhibit that is currently there. Reconstructed dinosaurs roaring
and moving. E can't even look at them, A wanted to stay there
forever. A dilemna with only one mom!
I also got a new math book: Family Math.
It looks like a great book to add more hands-on to our math. I
have done a lot of hands-on with the early math skills, but E is beyond
that, so I needed some fresh ideas. I actually wanted to get Family Math for Young Children,
so I could do more of the activities with A, too, but I grabbed without
thinking. Tomorrow we are doing the first activity in the book,
called "On the Dot". The goal is to cement quantity knowledge
(knowing that saying 4 means 4 things), but we'll use it for
multiplication, counting by 4s practice for E, and quantity for
A. My biggest problem with the book is that we can't use beans as
counters, because A is allergic to legumes. Pennies?
Buttons? I haven't decided yet.
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Dec. 7, 2005 - I could have written this post! |
| Posted by Kg |
You and I are so much alike, Heather! I, too, like to have a plan on what to write, but I find that when I DON'T, wonderful things happen!
I, too, like to sit and watch the kids play when I take them to the park (also, not often enough...but mine are 11, 9, & 6 and we are all just too busy with soccer, ballet, AWANA, & music - nevermind actually HOMEschooling!), but when I actually get up and play with them, I am the one that is very blessed.
I, too, stay up too late, don't sleep well, and then am very tired the next day. It is a nasty pattern for me, complicated by insomnia for other reasons. I do have to force myself to go to bed early, but then my dh suffers (he can function fine on 4 hours of sleep - it's not fair) because he needs to walk through the bedroom to get to his computer, so if I want to go to sleep he gets kicked off his comp.
Go figure!
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