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Bubbles & Bows
The Castle Keepers and Defenders met yesterday for their final meeting for the 2013/2014 year. The girls made hair bow holders (painting picture frames)and hair bows. There were some very beautiful ones! Here’s one of them up close. The girls wearing our club colors and t-shirts we designed. While the girls were busy making hair bows, the Castle Defenders and I were outside doing a few things ourselves. First on the agenda was to make sun tea. Then we blew some bubbles. 🙂 …and then we did a few experiments from http://www.hometrainingtools.com/a/super-soap-bubble-solution/. After blowing a bubble on the lid, the kids would insert different objects into the bubble like…
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Choosing What Really Matters
Twenty-four hours in a day. What will we do with them? We cannot possibly do everything, therefore we must choose the essentials. We must set limits. I was given this thought by Leo Babauta who wrote the book, The Power of Less. In the first few pages of the book he speaks of the haiku style of poetry. The haiku poem usually is nature related, has limits of 17 syllables and is written in only 3 lines with the first line having 5 syllables, the second line 7 syllables and the third line 5 syllables. These limitations causes the poet to consider carefully what words they will use to express…
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Eliminating the Boredom Issue in Children
Have you ever heard the words, “I’m bored,” or “There’s nothing to do.” from a child or teenager? Why is that? Being bored is a good indicator that a child has been entertained too much and most usually from the following: videos, television, video games or activities away from home. When you’re constantly being entertained in the passive way that videos, t.v. and video games do, your creative side suffers. You are unable or hampered in thinking of activities that appeal beyond more of the same. We like being entertained and don’t want the work of doing it ourselves. Activities away from home can also be detrimental to our children’s…
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Dreaming & Planning for the Future – Items to Put in a Hope Chest
When I was somewhere between 15-18 years old, my parents bought me my hope chest. Mom is a big fan of putting things away for that very special day in every girls life – their wedding, and she always helped each of us girls with our collection of things for our future homes. So when I married I had many sets of tea towels and bath towel sets. Being the 3rd born, I did get way less than my older sister (I had to tell the truth, sis. 🙂 ). My big sister had so much but the sad thing is most of it stayed in storage and the mice…
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Needing Some Pointers
I want to ask all of you a question today. How do you organize your teen’s chores? Do you have a system or do you verbally tell them what needs to be done? How do you give them an overall experience of cleaning all aspects of a home? Right now we do not have anything in place. Serenity, who is 16, usually helps with supper, wipes down counters after meals and on Friday’s helps with the weekly blessing. If you have an idea or opinion, I would love it if you commented.
