Well, not really reinventing, but we had the park day extraordinaire.

After running a few errands this morning, we met 3 other homeschool families at the park.  It was a new park that my family had never been to, so that is always fun.  There was nice playground equipment for the kids and a shady picnic table for the moms to occupy.  I could have lived without the recycled rubber landscape material though, or at least the black that my children returned home wearing. 

While the kids played, we had a nice conversation about health and nutrition and some great ideas and resources were shared.  I am anxiously awaiting an e-mail with the contact details of a local organic co-op.  Local is in my very town!  Who would have thought??

We left that park and returned home long enough to partially clean up the children and grab dad to head to another park.  There we met several other families from church for an impromptu picnic/ family night.  It was very relaxing and we all had a great time.

Now you would think that after all of that playing my kids would be exhausted and ready for sleep.  Not a chance.  We really need to work on a bedtime routine around here.  Brad is always out cold by 10 pm since he gets up so early so I am left to juggle whoever is still awake on my own.  I am getting very tired of the routine, both physically and emotionally.  Tips would certainly be appreciated.