A Good Day. . .

Yep, a pretty good day today.  Q and I have made a pact to really, really hard to get scriptures and prayer in EVERY night.  We decided that we were waiting till it got to late and by 9:00 we were ready to go postal.  “Forget scriptures---just get those little hosers in bed---argggg.”  Every parent can feel our pain at the end of a long day, eh? 

 

Anyway, we decided the key is to start earlier—get it done before we are teetering on the edge!  We’ve done really good the past few nights-hooray for salvation.

 

My second big goal is to read to each of the kiddos (one on one) at least 15 minutes a day.  Do the math, that is 45 minutes of reading kid books—what the!!  But today—success, thanks to a dentist appointment (more on that tomorrow). 

 

When I got home from the gym this afternoon/evening I turned in to Nazi screen mom.  “NO COMPUTERS, NO T.V., NO VIDEO GAMES---NOTHING WITH A SCREEN.”  I told the kids we were done with all things screen for the evening!  They griped a bit but then I gave them jobs to help me with dinner.  It was totally worth a few egg shells in the waffle mix!

 

So we had dinner—all together, cleaned up, read scriptures & prayer, played a little Spongebob Connect Four, did baths/jammies/teeth/breathing treatments.  Aiden and Q read one more book.  Then the boys got 10 minutes watching dad and his ultra cool computer game (NOT).

 

--someone, please explain the whole boys & video game thing. . .I totally do NOT get it!

 

And at last, 3 kiddos---fed, read, prayed, played, cleaned, brushed, loved, and NIGHT NIGHT!!  Time check. . .9:06.  V-I-C-T-O-R-Y!

 

And just as the proverbial cherry. . .I even remembered the freakin’ children’s vitamins!!!

And since I was way too wrapped up in "keeping the peace."  Which included--keeping Ash (on dad's team) feeling like he was in charge and doing awesome, and keeping Ade (on my team) stimulated and thinking of our next move, and keeping Ava--awake and NOT suckleing.

--yep, I forgot to snap a pic, until Ade and I were cleaning up and the little kiddos were in the bath. . .alas there has got to be ONE hitch.

Hope your day is great!