Crafts. video games, and escape artists.

Sometimes its just fun to play, play like a kid with your kids. Cleaning the house can wait, but they will only be this small and young today. Tomorrow they will be older and a memory will have formed about how your priorities were the day before.

Today the kids and I played. A LOT!!  Out side on the trampoline, we pertended we took a space ship to the moon and were jumping on the moon. *I was the space alien who they scared away with talking loud. * We played in the leaves i piled up raking the front yard. we played with sidewalk chalk. we cut and glued paper. we made blueberry muffins and ate so much batter we only could make 1 small loaf and 1 big muffin. we played and it was fun. after dinner and bath we played hide and seek. tag, and after Balian went to bed, Video games. Jocelyne decided she didnt like our growup video games and till we got her a easy one like dora she would tell me how to play.

So now both kids are asleep, I have gotten little to no housework done, but I had fun. We interacted today as a family. We could talk about how work makes you tired (*why daddy sleeps when everyone else is awake), how work is important just like school. But its how you show love.

Its just plain fun to laugh. And amos and I had a great one in the car on the drive home from errands, we got joss a harmonica as a impulse buy and she was playing it to her hearts content. I asked her to please stop so i could talk to her daddy. "Mommy, but I'm playing Music" she tells me in the most matter of fact tone she can muster. We both laughed till our sides hurt.

Balian helped me find out how Emily (our smaller dog) we getting loose. I barricaded that while he escaped out the open gate to follow me.

Anyway, not a thing "Productive" was done today, but memories were made even if i am the only one to remember them 50yrs from now.

At naptime Jocelyne and i hung the purple birdhouses. she now wants us to make a bird feeder.