I'll get back to my thoughts on peaceful parenting on another night. There is so much to think about in those 2 words. Things here have been busy with daily studies and classes, chores and outtings.
On Thursday, my oldest 3 were presented with their new belts at TKD. They started in November, and this was their first belt test. They are very excited about thier progress and proud of their hard work.
Hard work has been a theme here lately, as I am shifting the focus of their education from my constant nagging and reminding over to a self responcibility with visible accountability. I have given them each a binder filled with 1 month's worth of studies, broken down by subject and pages/lesson per day or week. After several days' went by, I called for a binder to inspect it. The child had done something in every subject, had over achieved in some and didn't get as much done in others. But looking at it, I could see that she was right on track for reaching her goals. She was so relieved to KNOW where she was at.
Ok. so Friday was 2 dermatology appointments, Co Op & Valentine's Party, and the kids' friend L over for the afternoon. I was up at 5 am, getting ready and waking children up to drive 35 minutes in the morning commuter traffic. We managed to get to the appointments 10 minutes early, get 2 children seen in 30 minutes (plus refill and amount adjustments), and get back acoss town (still in commuter traffic) with more then enough time to get the Co Op location ready for classes. *Whew* I'm exhausted thinking about it, and yet, I did all that on 3 hours sleep. The toddler is struggling with proper sleep times.
At Dermatology, we learned that *both* children not only got blessed with my faulty skin genes, they also got the extremely low blood pressure. I now have the numbers in hand, where before I had only suspicions. I added a pic of the stats.
Today we again got up early and whisked the kids off to Disney on Ice. We kept it a surprise, so we had wonder filled children. Little miss 6 wanted this for her daddy time, for the whole family. We all enjoyed it very much! I loved their set up, and multipurpose staging.
My hand is flaring up in pain. I cannot keep going to tell you about the fridge, or the clean path in the garage it inspired... good night.
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