We tried to help the kids make vision boards and get excited about making some goals. Things like this always sound so great in my head, and then I'm left wondering if it did any good. ha!
Lindy got on a puppet show kick for about a week, and she and Benson would put on puppet shows from behind the couch. :) :) :)
Benson and Grandpa, enjoying some reading time after Sunday dinner. One of Benson's favorite pastimes. Also, taking baths whenever and wherever he can get them. :)
Not every book I read with the kids is deserving of a book party. But "The Fantastic Mr. Fox" definitely is. We invited the James's over to celebrate with us because they love the story just as much as we do. We meditated, wore bandit hats/ Davy Crockett hats/ animal masks. We had roasted chicken, apple cider, apples with stars on them, and jelly filled doughnuts. We wanted to play a version of "whack-bat" but the weather would not permit it. We watched the movie and had a dance party. So much fun! All except the fact that we had all been taking turns being sick in January, and the night of this party, Gwen got sick and threw up. So she had to be quarantined. Bummer.
Every year Richie teaches the Book of Mormon for seminary, they put on a "tree of life" hands on experience. It's always a good opportunity to take my kids through. They really go all out. They black out the entire building, make the rod go through all the rooms, they have sound effects, and "mists of darkness" and people tempting you to leave the rod, etc. Then you hopefully end up at the Tree of Life (which was a neighbor's old dead peach tree Richie chopped down :) ) and you get candy. :) The kids loved it. Again, I was hit with the realization of how important it is for me to be firmly clinging to the rod for the sake of my children. When I have to be holding Benson's hand on the rod the entire time, and reassuring Lindy the whole way through, it makes it acutely clear that my role in their testimony growth is paramount right now.
Knowing we are moving is both helpful, and also extremely confusing. We are living in limbo, but acting like living here will be our life for the rest of forever. Very strange. But as far as the positives go, knowing way ahead that we are moving is giving us ample time to remodel and pack/dejunk slowly and deliberately. I packed up our "nook" the other day and with the empty cupboard, Benson created a "cave" where he used rubber stamps, and read books, and felt very cool with the lantern in there with him.
Like I said, we have been rotating through sickness in the house for at least a month. I think I personally have had something since Christmas. No fair! It is this Zombie virus, that makes you sick, you get almost all better, then it hits again. Mine hit hard the last 2 weeks in January. I couldn't get out of bed for 2 days. I'm just now regaining some motivation and functioning on more than just survival mode. Why is it so hard to take care of yourself, but you can doctor up 5 kids and a husband no problem? We'll see if we ever have all 7 of us healthy at the same time again. Fingers crossed!
Benson is OBSESSED with "building videos" lately. He will sneak upstairs while we're doing school, and find them on Youtube if I don't hide the mouse. It's just these 2 guys in some jungle place in the world, building things with minimal, primitive tools. It cracks me up how much he loves them.
The girls all ready for Sunday! Gwen helped Lindy with her hair, and they had worked hard to clean their room the day before, so they insisted on pictures. They posed themselves. :) They are my 2 that fight the most. But they also really love each other.
So much Davy cuteness!!
Ordinary school stuff :)
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