Around here we're starting to get into the basketball season. Both Beau and Cora are participating in traveling basketball through SYBA. The crazy weekends of tournaments haven't started yet, but they're both having practice regularly. Luke will be the assistant coach to Cora's team this year. Sylvie will get to play too, but her season won't start until January and is one game on Saturday mornings in town.
Around here are three kids are going to religion class on Wednesday nights, I'm teaching Cora's 3rd grade class. Between that and basketball practice it's rare to have a weeknight where we are all home.
Around here we're getting excited for the holidays! I'm starting in on some shopping, planning and thinking about getting the house decorated. The kids are getting Christmas lists made, and my desk is full of December Daily prep work.
Around here I'm participating in the Whole30 program. It's basically an elimination diet focusing on whole foods for 30 days. No grains, no added sugars (real or artificial), no dairy, no legumes, no alcohol, no MSG, and no treats or desserts. That means that as far as family meals go we're all participating.
Around here the girls have been watching YouTube videos on either Cora's Kindle tablet or the Wii. They mostly watch videos on making different types of slime, and occasionally some kid "toy tester" videos. We recently began a slime ban in this house, so they only get to watch people make slime, no more making it themselves. Ugh....slime.
Around here Beau has been playing Fortnite as much as we'll allow using my old iPhone. His friends play as well and they talk and chatter as they play. I guess it's better than being zoned in to his own little screen world, but we still limit it much more than he'd like. No screens during the week and a set amount of time on weekends. I'm working on finding a good system to regulate screen time across all devices automatically so I don't have to play screen cop all the time.
Around here the days feel different doing daycare with no kids of my own here, I am still enjoying running a daycare out of our home. I'm working on finding balance and being more intentional about giving my kids my focus when they are home. It's defiantly a transition period which at the moment involves shortening my hours so I can be done earlier in the evenings to help with homework and get hungry bellies fed before the evening running begins.
Around here Sylvie is loving Kindergarten. The evenings can be a little touch and go as she's still very tired, especially towards the end of the week. Right now our focus is on learning to read. She's the most resistant of my 3 to reading, but she's making progress with her sight words and getting more comfortable with sounding words out. We did attach her sight words to softballs. Every word/ball she could read we would pitch to her and she'd get to hit. Sometimes its just a matter of finding the right motivation!!
Around here the kids have been doing their homework right after school. Both Beau and Cora are required to spend some time up in their rooms by themselves to help them focus. Coming home to a house full of babies, toddlers, preschoolers and a couple of their school age friends doesn't always make it easy for them to focus on homework. We're trying out the "study time" in their room not as a punishment (although sometimes they perceive it as such) but just as a way to give them a better environment to get their stuff done, especially since the evenings after work are full of other activities.
Around here bedtime is around 8pm. The goal is for all 3 to be in bed by 8:00. I read with Sylvie, which right now looks like us working on a sight word book together, followed by me reading a book and Bible story. Cora will join us sometimes but is beginning to want to read on her own in her room more and more. Beau would read all night if we'd let him, but it's still lights out by 8:30 for him.
So that's what life around here looks like right now. I can feel our schedules beginning to ramp up with the holidays and basketball beginning, so I just wanted to take a minute to pause an think about what life really does look like right now. I can about guarantee in 6 months it will look completely different.
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