I had a great talk with Drew today. I also used some old fabric paint to basically destroy some aprons for the kiddos–aprons that Auntie Loni Maughn had given us as extras from some event. It also leaked through and got onto the center island countertop–and will hopefully all come off. It was particularly hard to get it off today because our water line was out. Amazing Quinn figured it out yesterday and took care of it. Thank goodness! Poor Hyrum went to the hardware store to try and find parts, didn’t and so then poor Quinn had to go anyway! Fortunately and miraculously, we have water now, though.
Penelope went down for an early nap. We had devotional. We had reading time, learning about the DMZ and the 38th parallel in the Koreas. The kiddos did a bunch of cool world maps that I found. I forced Eli to read and do math…not sure that forcing is ever the way but that kid insists that he is stupid and HE’S NOT. He just refuses to even try and it drives me CRAZY. Sign. I finally put on Moana because I am tired of Penelope’s whining and destruction; Liesl’s violence and yelling; Eli’s whining; and Xai’s over-reactions…and both of their meanness to each other and their little sisters. True, they have lots of good things, but it gets old.
The sun is shining, the water is running, and I have a few minutes to myself. Well, kind of. Elijah is going to come in and do math with me. Which can be fun. Unless his is whiny. He really is such a smart and cute kid. His belligerence is just driving me CRAZY. And I know that if I try to find a way that he would like learning, he would learn fast. I am just going to keep on charging through, though, so here we go. Poor chap.
February 8, 2023
Xai just determined that the grape juice is very tart and very sweet.
Maia is downstairs drumming away on our newly borrowed drum set (she and Hyrum are taking lessons).
Piper is gathering laundry from around the house after diligently retrieving the blessedly empty garbage cans from the curb and feeding our still living Rasputin. As Tova put it the other day, when we get to heaven, we are going to have a whole zoo-full of animals that died under our care waiting for us. Sad, but true.
We had some delicious sandwiches for breakfast this morning: Tim Horton look-a-likes. Croissant, egg, bacon and cheese…twelve sandwiches for the price of three sandwiches. Crazy! Xai and Maia helped me put them together and it was a lot of fun.
One of the kids is doing so much better with wetting bed less! They help me take care of the laundry, too, and take a cooler shower every morning. We have tried the alarm system– which worked to a degree but was a lot of vested interest and we didn’t feel it was the right thing overall. We are gravitating back to what we did with the oldest kids: natural consequences and effects. The child is definitely not happy about it, but …what is new about parenting?
We are watching CNN 10 right now and having a lot of great discussion: state of the union address/counter address. Love my thinking kiddos.
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