When Life Hands you Lemons...

Make lemon pudding.

I love how my oldest is interested in experimenting and discovering. Today he asked me if he could make pudding for dessert. Of course I said yes. Discovering and learning and doing are important! Not to mention the math lessons of using measuring cups! Oh boy! So he went to Grandma's (who lives downstairs) and picked out a package of lemon pudding. He added water, sugar, and stirred. He did need help adding the egg yolks. I started the stove top for him and he started stirring.

Then he got bored


... so I finished.

At least we're having dessert tonight! :D

Taming the Tiger

I've never been accused of being "high-energy" or a "yellow" peronality. In fact, I'm pretty low-energy. It's not that I wouldn't like more, but I just can't seem to find it. But my kids? They have energy. A LOT of it. And it's hard keeping up with them during the school year, but now it's summer and they are all home and ...bum, bum, bum:

BORED

So there is a lot of fighting, a lot of mess-making, and a lot of me running back and forth between the two. So I've decided this summer, instead of being frustrated with our time together, we're going to try and tame their inner-tigers by wearing them out (I *might* just be utterly exhausted after the summer). So this is the first week of summer and so far we've done our swimming lessons every day, we went and bought lawn water toys, and the kids are having a blast. We've had dance recitals and sleepovers, and I think this approach might be working...they are all sleeping SO well! But swimming lessons end next week and I've got to come up with something else.

Please share any ideas you have!

We have some merit badge classes coming up, Up With Kids, champ camp, soccer, and maybe more swimming lessons.