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How to Motivate Your Kids to Do Their Chores
Wouldn’t it be a dream if your kids woke up each morning and ran to look at their chore chart to see what they were to do around the house? Well I have recently made chore boards for my kids that pretty much is working that way. I cannot believe how successful this has been with my 9-year-old son and 6-year-old daughter. Let me tell you about it. Do you remember when Choreganizers came out several years ago? It was basically a visual way for your children to do their chores. Each child has a chart with 5 pockets and you put a chore card (a stack of chore cards come with Choreganizer) that has a picture in each…
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Farewell, Canada
We were able to see plenty of wildlife while in Canada. Deer, elk, bear, big horn sheep & mountain goat. I think that’s more then we ever saw when we visited Yellowstone quite a few years ago. In the top right picture, the one big horn sheeps’ head is cocked to the side because one horn has been broken off. He could not hold his head straight and walk, it always leaned to the side.The bears were loving the dandelions that grew by the side of the road (all those yellow flowers are dandelions). We are thinking that the brown bear we saw was a grizzly. It’s strange that you think you…
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A Wildnerness Retreat When Living in Canada Isn’t Wildnerness Enough
Well, howdy, howdy. How has everyone been doing? I took another blogging break because this time we took a trip to Ohio to a youth camp. …and we had a marvelous time. But that’s for another time. I still want to finish posting about our trip to British Columbia, so I better get started, right. At the end of my last post, I told you we were going to visit a family, who we really didn’t know very well, but after our visit I feel like my family has grown. Isn’t that the way it is when you’re part of the family of God? The dad is a retired park ranger…
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Johnston Canyon Falls, Banff National Park
After our rainy night in a tent, the all the boys woke up and took a hike. We girls stayed behind in our somewhat, questionably dry tent to await their return. Of course, it started to rain. I have mentioned that it rained a lot while we were in Canada, haven’t I? They hiked to Johnston Canyon Falls. 35 second video showing the amount of water that’s coming down the falls all day. It totally amazes me how it just keeps going and going. Another short video of Johnston Canyon Falls from a different angle, put to music. A bit damp… and I’m not sure what’s going on with Wesley’s shirt.…
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Touring the Canadian Rockies
After leaving Vancouver, we headed for the gorgeous Canadian Rockies. Being from dry Arizona, it was amazing to see water everywhere. Rivers, water flowing along the ditches of the road in many areas, coming down off the mountain in a waterfall. There was so much water that it got to a point where everyone almost quit looking when you said waterfall. Glaciers, snow capped mountains like this one. And of course, there were the clouds. It was usually raining or threatening to rain. The clouds were interesting to me; I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many low ones. There would be little solitary wisps of clouds suspended quite low. Driving…
