For Family Home Evening, we decorated Halloween sugar cookies (which I smartly made earlier in the day, along with the frosting... I'm slowly learning that in order to enjoy a stress free cookie decorating activity with the kids, I need it all ready to go well ahead of time) - we took some plates to neighbors and I also took some to Emma's teacher - I had to skip out towards the end of the cookie party, so that I could go to Emma's parent teacher conference. How nice of Emma's teacher to have a 7pm time slot that I could snag so I wouldn't need to find a babysitter for the kids! That hard working lady deserved some cookies! :)
I know many of you mom's with young kids can relate to the misery that the 4 o'clock hour can bring... it seems that 4-7pm are rough lately - by 5 o'clock it feels like a mad house - Claire wants to eat, I'm still trying to get dinner made, Emma has homework to do, Jake is getting crazy and running into walls and hitting Becca, etc, etc. I'm not the only one that suffers the 4pm blues right? Well, I found a solution... dinner at the park! Today we avoided the craziness all together, left the house, picked up some fast food and ate and played at the park till 6:30... then we drove home and the kids all went right to bed. I am brilliant! haha. :) We had such a pleasant, stress-free evening...
Cookies, yum! And how about that starship that Jake is commanding!
ReplyDelete4:00 is called Arsenic hour. I read it in some parenting book. Eating in the park was a smart way to get through it. haha.
ReplyDeleteI would love to taste one of those cookies. They're delicious and totally fat free I'm sure. Actually, I've been thinking it might be time to get back to the salad thing. Sigh.
On the Alpine Loop drive today, my Dad drove us right by the Dangerfield (Hamblin) cabin. I knew exactly which one it was.