Grace wanted new play clothes, and since she is a girlie girl she wanted dresses. I found some scraps in my sewing cupboard from other projects and I had just enough to make her a few outfits. Here is her favorite, her new yellow playdress.
Monday, March 31, 2008
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Reflections of Christ
I was sent a link to this sight called "Reflections of Christ" in my e-mail today, and I was inspired. A local photographer, Mark Mabry, took on a larger than life project to photograph scenes from the life of Christ. The actor who portrays Christ is the same man who has played the role in the Easter Pageant for the last four years. The photographs from this slide show (link below) are currently on dispay at the Mesa Temple Visitors Center. No matter what faith you belong to, these photographs are powerful and can strengthen your testimony of Jesus Christ. I saw the slide show today, and I'm going to the Temple tomorrow as soon as it opens to see this dispay.
http://mabrystudios.typepad.com/reflections_of_christ/2008/03/reflections-sli.html
http://mabrystudios.typepad.com/reflections_of_christ/2008/03/reflections-sli.html
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Dog meets Hampster
I was inspired by Emily's post about her new hampster, and I realized I haven't added anything to our blog about our family pets. We got Lady the Chihuahua 2 years ago as a 6 week old puppy, and we got Hammy the Hampster for Christmas when he was 2 months old. This is the first time we let Lady and Hammy meet each other (with a handy plastic barrier, otherwise Lady would be digesting Hammy).
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Spring Break
We just got home from our Spring Break in California, and I was brave enough to take the kids by myself. Austin wasn't able to get the time off work, so I drove 6 hours in a mini van with three children under the age of 7. They were amazingly well behaved, and all I have to say is; thank goodness for portable DVD players! I remember the annual family vacations we took when I was a child driving to Utah and Idaho to visit my mom's family, and the drive took at least 17 hours. We didn't have DVD players, we had my mom. She was super-mom, singing songs, playing games, providing snacks and activities to keep us entertained during the drive. I look back on that now with fondness, but traveling with my own children for a fraction of that 17 hour drive makes me appreciate my mother in a whole new way. I only hope that I have a fraction of her patience and ingenuity someday. You're my hero, mom!
Friday, March 7, 2008
When is it appropriate to correct your children's behavior, or to comfort the child to avoid the tantrum? Twice in the last two days we've had issues with our kids behavior and I'm not sure we handled it correctly. Last night the kids had to go to a babysitters house so we could go out for my mother-in-laws birthday. Ember, the oldest, didn't want to eat her dinner and was giving her dad a lot of attitude. He couldn't make a huge issue of it because he was in a time crunch. The typical rule of the house is that you eat whatever is on your plate, and you can't leave the table until you do. Ember would have sat there all night, which would have made us miss our family dinner. Austin made an exception and let Ember skip dinner. There wasn't even time for punishment for disrespecting and talking back to her dad.
This morning Ben woke up in a grumpy mood and was very disobedient. We were running late and needed Ben to just get dressed so he wouldn't miss the bus. The fight began over, of all things, which shoes he wanted to wear to school. He was screaming, crying, delaying, and we just had to get him out the door so he wasn't late for school. He then started crying because he couldn't find his homework, and by then I was at the end of my rope. I yelled at him and told him to stop crying. He left for school an emotional wreck, which I KNOW is going to affect how well he does today.
With Ember we ignored her behavior, with Ben we over-reacted and sent him to school upset. When you are in a time crunch and have disobedient children, what do you do? Sometimes correcting the behavior and being consistent with consequences means changing your own plans, as in the case of the family dinner. But what about school? I couldn't let him be late for school just because I wanted to take the time to handle the situation better. Please add comments to this post and let me know your opinions... when do you punish the child, and when do you save it for another time?
This morning Ben woke up in a grumpy mood and was very disobedient. We were running late and needed Ben to just get dressed so he wouldn't miss the bus. The fight began over, of all things, which shoes he wanted to wear to school. He was screaming, crying, delaying, and we just had to get him out the door so he wasn't late for school. He then started crying because he couldn't find his homework, and by then I was at the end of my rope. I yelled at him and told him to stop crying. He left for school an emotional wreck, which I KNOW is going to affect how well he does today.
With Ember we ignored her behavior, with Ben we over-reacted and sent him to school upset. When you are in a time crunch and have disobedient children, what do you do? Sometimes correcting the behavior and being consistent with consequences means changing your own plans, as in the case of the family dinner. But what about school? I couldn't let him be late for school just because I wanted to take the time to handle the situation better. Please add comments to this post and let me know your opinions... when do you punish the child, and when do you save it for another time?
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