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My best friend recently took in a mama cat who, shortly thereafter, had 4 kittens, 2 male, 2 female. She was fortunate that our local human society would neuter all 5 for a small amount of money through their feral cat program. She took them all in and they were all recuperating from their surgeries when my friend's niece came over to visit. After a while playing with the kittens, her niece asked "If Tanner and Dreamy are boys, why do they have to have operations so they can't have babies?" My friend said "Why don't you ask your mom and dad that question?" and her niece said "They won't know! They're not vets!" (I guess the fact that my friend is an R.N. is why she got favored with this question.) She went on to give a very good answer about how boys help make babies and now those 2 particular boy kitty cats can't "help" anymore.
Monday, April 04, 2005
Kid of the Day
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Something that has been very helpful to me for the past couple of years is the "Kid of the Day" system. I got it from an article in Family Fun magazine. (I probably should post a link to their site since I mention their magazine in almost every post!) Anyway, it works like this. My oldest kid is kid of the day on Sunday and Wednesday, middle child has Tuesday and Saturday and youngest has Monday and Friday. This way they all have a weekday and a (kind of) weekend day. The kid of the day has extra privileges and possibly extra responsibilities. If there is an argument over who goes first or who gets to choose the TV show, I say "who is the kid of the day?" That usually settles it. The kid of the day also gets to choose what we read at night and if we go to a restaurant on their day, s/he gets to choose which one. Since we had one day of the week left over, I'm the kid of the day on Thursdays. One day I got a funny look from a man at the grocery store when the kids asked who was the kid of the day and I said "Me! I'm the kid of the day!"
Something that has been very helpful to me for the past couple of years is the "Kid of the Day" system. I got it from an article in Family Fun magazine. (I probably should post a link to their site since I mention their magazine in almost every post!) Anyway, it works like this. My oldest kid is kid of the day on Sunday and Wednesday, middle child has Tuesday and Saturday and youngest has Monday and Friday. This way they all have a weekday and a (kind of) weekend day. The kid of the day has extra privileges and possibly extra responsibilities. If there is an argument over who goes first or who gets to choose the TV show, I say "who is the kid of the day?" That usually settles it. The kid of the day also gets to choose what we read at night and if we go to a restaurant on their day, s/he gets to choose which one. Since we had one day of the week left over, I'm the kid of the day on Thursdays. One day I got a funny look from a man at the grocery store when the kids asked who was the kid of the day and I said "Me! I'm the kid of the day!"
Sunday, April 03, 2005
Cleaning.
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Yesterday, we were supposed to clean the house. And we did. A little. I told my youngest son he needed to clean and he said "I don't like cleaning." I told him that I don't like it either, but it has to be done. He said "my liking of cleaning is as low as the earth's core."
Yesterday, we were supposed to clean the house. And we did. A little. I told my youngest son he needed to clean and he said "I don't like cleaning." I told him that I don't like it either, but it has to be done. He said "my liking of cleaning is as low as the earth's core."
Saturday, April 02, 2005
The Free Enterprise System
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Last night my youngest son brought me a pile of play money and told me that I won the lottery. (Funny, I don't remember buying a play lottery ticket.) Then he declared that his store was open and I could buy anything in this room (my bedroom) from him. I ended up getting a real steal on a backscratcher for a approximately $300.00 in play money. Since then, my daughter has sold me half a deck of Swap cards from her store for $10.00. I am going to see if I can convince them to go share these incredible bargains with Daddy...
Last night my youngest son brought me a pile of play money and told me that I won the lottery. (Funny, I don't remember buying a play lottery ticket.) Then he declared that his store was open and I could buy anything in this room (my bedroom) from him. I ended up getting a real steal on a backscratcher for a approximately $300.00 in play money. Since then, my daughter has sold me half a deck of Swap cards from her store for $10.00. I am going to see if I can convince them to go share these incredible bargains with Daddy...
Wisdom
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A while back, my daughter was in the mood to watch Mulan over and over and she learned all the songs. She was going through the house singing "when will my reflection show who I am inside?" My younger son said, "It never will, silly, it shows what is on the outside." I thought that was pretty wise, coming from a 6-year-old.
A while back, my daughter was in the mood to watch Mulan over and over and she learned all the songs. She was going through the house singing "when will my reflection show who I am inside?" My younger son said, "It never will, silly, it shows what is on the outside." I thought that was pretty wise, coming from a 6-year-old.
Multi-tasking.
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This morning we were getting ready to go to a homeschool co-op class and we were running late (as usual). I went to the bathroom to see how my daughter was progressing with her bath and to tell her to get out. I looked in the bathroom door which was partially open and saw my daughter, in the tub, eating a taco salad. Honestly. She had made herself a taco salad (from last night's leftovers) and was eating it in the tub. That is some interesting multi-tasking.
This morning we were getting ready to go to a homeschool co-op class and we were running late (as usual). I went to the bathroom to see how my daughter was progressing with her bath and to tell her to get out. I looked in the bathroom door which was partially open and saw my daughter, in the tub, eating a taco salad. Honestly. She had made herself a taco salad (from last night's leftovers) and was eating it in the tub. That is some interesting multi-tasking.
Friday, April 01, 2005
A Chip On The Window
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To get my husband for April fools this morning, the kids and I put a big corn chip on the back glass door and then told him there was a chip on the door and he should go look. He got kind of annoyed till he saw where they had written "April Fool" on the glass with those window FX markers and the chip hanging there. It was cute. Let me tell you from experience it is difficult to tape a corn chip to a window. They're too salty. :-)
To get my husband for April fools this morning, the kids and I put a big corn chip on the back glass door and then told him there was a chip on the door and he should go look. He got kind of annoyed till he saw where they had written "April Fool" on the glass with those window FX markers and the chip hanging there. It was cute. Let me tell you from experience it is difficult to tape a corn chip to a window. They're too salty. :-)
April Fool!
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I surprised the youngest kid with the unsolvable maze that I printed from the Family Fun website and for the older two, I printed out a fake test that I found on line. It said on the first question that they should read all the questions before proceeding, then on the last question it told them they didn't have do anything but read it all. Then questions 2-9 had them doing silly things like drawing two squares in the corner of their paper, writing their birthdate in another corner of the paper, etc. They were a little stressed about testing at first but then they got started. Of course both of them drew the little squares and all the other silly little things. We had a good laugh about it afterwards. I think it would have been funnier if the things that they had to do included things like clapping their hands and doing a little dance ... might have to do that next year. :-)
I surprised the youngest kid with the unsolvable maze that I printed from the Family Fun website and for the older two, I printed out a fake test that I found on line. It said on the first question that they should read all the questions before proceeding, then on the last question it told them they didn't have do anything but read it all. Then questions 2-9 had them doing silly things like drawing two squares in the corner of their paper, writing their birthdate in another corner of the paper, etc. They were a little stressed about testing at first but then they got started. Of course both of them drew the little squares and all the other silly little things. We had a good laugh about it afterwards. I think it would have been funnier if the things that they had to do included things like clapping their hands and doing a little dance ... might have to do that next year. :-)
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