of those mom's who makes their kids actually do something besides veg in front of something plugged in.
The boys have this schedule:
1- get breakfast
2- get dressed and groomed (deoderant PLEASE!!)
3-get you room done (beds, dirty clothes to laundry, picked up)
4- read for no less than 30 minutes
5- journals ( not so strict on this with the teenagers, but a must for Mr. Jake)
6- math (again mostly for Jake)
7- practice piano for 15-20 minutes
8- extra chores that mom assigns
9- work on a scouting badge and exersize for Physical Fitness badge
This little routine takes around 2 1/2 hours but earns them swimming time, computer time, Wii time and friend time.
I am also going to throw in extra incentives to get up and get going so that I do not have to babysit the boys through the whole morning.
Anyway, after reading about Fun Friday on my friend Debbie's blog I thought it would be a great way to make summer a bit more fun and something the kids have to look forward to each week. It will not always be a movie..um hello 50 bucks for the tickets today! UGH!
So in honor of our first ever FUN FRIDAY we went to see Kung Fu Panda and it was pretty good. Maya sat through the whole thing and started "HI-YAH-ing" during the fighting scenes. She loved it.
Speaking of Maya, she is doing great, the whole concusion thing slowed her down for all of 24 hours and then she was back to her cute little bossy self. We did keep the injury trend alive this week as I put a nail through the ball of my foot and had to go get a tetnus shot-and my arm hurts worse than the hole in my foot! OUCH! I am wondering what will happen next week.
6 comments:
I loved the post....all except that little part about nail through foot. I got all queasy for you. The tetnus thing made me queasy, too. I hate needles. It's a wonder I got through having my kids... Fun Friday sounds like a great idea. Maybe one Fun Friday you could drive to Colorady....
I like the Fun Friday idea. I also read about Unplugged Fun on another blog so maybe we will actually do some of these this summer. Only 8 more days of school - wahoo!
sounds like good idea to me.... well except that nail thru the foot.... oh sickeeeee! oh pain! maybe kinners and i will have to join you on one of those fun fridays! when will you guys be coming out this way?
How's the foot and arm doing now? Hopefully this last week has been uneventful in the injury department!
Ok, I so love the "kung fu" picture at the end.. that was too fun!!!! And how did miss Maya like the film? Jer loved it.. but it was super exciting for him because he had never been to the drive in and we got approached by a FOX.. you heard me.. welcome to Colorado....
Thanks for the update on the family and the schedule for sure. It's nice to know that I'm not the only mother that makes the kids work. I'm showing this one to Zach and Morgan. Hope your arm/foot is healing well. We just returned from the Fourth of July Celebration in DC. We had a ton of fun! All our love to your family. Miss you guys tons!!!!!
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