As the Chicago winter continues on and on and on, we decided to have a winter vacation and surprise the kids with a trip to the Wisconsin Dells- a town full of indoor water parks. It is the Chicago thing to do in the winter.
We packed the car the night before, and told the kids the next morning we were going on a picnic. Jaden said to Jill as we got in the car, we are going to a waterpark. Mike and I looked at each other surprised and wondered how he knew. We still said we were just going on a picnic. He said.. why is the swimming stuff in the back then? Oops, I guess we did not pack good enough. He's too smart for us now. We told him OK we are going to a hotel with a simming pool. He then said, does it have a slid? Are we going to the Wisconsin Dells. Well the gig is up. We still did not give any details.
We stayed at the Chula Vista Hotel that had a Mayan themed water park. It was so much fun! I of course had as much fun as the kids or more. We enjoyed two full days at the park and all was well and happy. Tate slept, ate and played a little in the water. Tyler went under the water at least four times, but all was well. Jaden was fearless and went on all the slides that were at least 70 feet tall. Jill couldn't get enough of swimming and got a few slides in. We all had a great vacation.
My friend Karrie King and her family were at the Dells also, so we met for Pizza. It was a great break from the snow.
Enjoy the show......
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Friday, February 13, 2009
RED PUNCH!
Today as Jill put it.... this was the most Awesomeist Day of my life! She and Jaden had their Valentines Day parties at school and were so excited to take their Valentines. For me it did not start out so great. I was in charge of the punch for Jill's preschool snack. I decided to make my own at home, instead of taking all three kids into the store for one item. As I was making it I had this thought and vision of red punch spilling all over my floor. Unfortunately, I did not give heed all the way to that thought. I did try to secure the piture of punch with my coat behind it, and then I forgot it was there. As I turned the corner it tipped forward and the whole gallon of RED PUNCH spilled all over the van! Brilliant wouldn't you say. I said, Oh No, Daddy is going to be mad. He wouldn't really be, but Jill was so worried that he would be. I had to reasure her it would be all right. She wanted to say a prayer. I almost told her it was not neccesary, but thought why not. She prayed that it would be alright and that the punch would come out, so we could still keep our car. It was so cute. I told her the carpet would be fine. I then turned around and cleaned up as much of it as I could with towels and then got Jill off to her party. I have yet to fully clean it out as the day has been so busy, so we'll see how it is in the morning.
Attitude is Everything.... I am glad we really all had an Awesomiest Day!
(I was not real upset, but I wish I would have listened to the prompting.)
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
WRITING, WRITING AND MORE WRITING
Jaden is a very cleaver boy.... and does not like writers workshop at school. He will only write one sentence. Coming up with the idea, I think, is very overwhelming, as he writes very well. We are trying to work with him to write a whole page, and to come up with ideas. It has been very frustrating for him and his parents. But even after our many inspiring talks ha, ha, he brought this paper home....
I laughed, after he left the room from my lecture of course. Like I said, he is very creative and cleaver. He has great one liners..
He did inform me that we had not done any resoulutions. Which was true, we never talked with the children about resolutions this year. But the work had to be finished. It took him four hours to finish both sides, mainly because he cried about it for 3 hours, and then realized we were not changing our minds. Once he gets over the worry he is fine. My question out there is.... how do you help inspire children to do the things they find hard. We are stuck. He won't budge as of yet.
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