Family Fun

Fridays and Saturdays are Hubby's days off.  After taking time off for the memorial service and camping and grandparents visit my plan was to go ahead and do school on Fridays.  My original plan was to take Fridays off for the entire year.  But because of the extra time off I decided we would bite the bullet and just have school on Fridays until January.  That lasted all of one week.  What kid wants to be doing school when their Daddy is sitting in the living room just waiting for them to come and play with him?  For that matter, what Mom wants to be doing school while Hubby is sitting in the living room doing nothing!  Not us! 

To be fair, if I really thought we had fallen that far behind we would be doing school on Friday.  But after reviewing Baby Girl #1's math and #2's math and english I decided we weren't as far behind as I thought.  In fact, we were a little bit ahead of schedule.

All this to explain that we had a family day on Friday.  Hubby assisted Baby Girl #2 in making blueberry muffins and bacon for breakfast.  She has been begging for about 2 months to be able to make breakfast so she was very happy to be able to get to do it.  I was very happy to be able to sleep in a little and wake up to my favorite breakfast!

After that we loaded everyone up and went to do a little shopping for Hubby.  He has gone for far too long with his slacks falling apart and being sewn quickly back together.  And his shoes that he wears with pretty much every suit were getting holes in the soles.  So I found a store that we having a sale, found a coupon and off we went.  It just so happens that I also found a $75 purse for $5.  Just sayin'!

After a little bit of shopping we surprised the girls with going to see Wreck-it Ralph.  Hubby and I both enjoy going to the movies and the girls love to go as well.  My sister had seen this movie and said it was really good so we decided to treat the girls.  We went to a matinee--lets be honest, our family of six can really only afford to go to matinees!  We found a theater that is a little older and more run down, but their ticket prices are cheaper as are their popcorn prices!  And the staff was pretty nice.  And we loved the movie!  We might actually buy it, and that is really saying something!

After that we came back home, had some dinner, watched another movie for family movie night and then packed the kiddos off to bed.

So what was so exciting about the day that is warranted a blog post?  Not much I guess, other than a note mentioning that we had a nice relaxing day as a family.  No schedules to keep, no running around madly trying to get every last thing done, no bad attitudes or hurt feelings. Just us together, enjoying being together.  I'm learning to count days like that as a reminder that God has given us all kinds of blessings that we normally take for granted.  Good health for all of us, the financial means to treat ourselves to a movie, a spouse that I still like to sit next to in a movie theater, even if we both have kids on our laps.  I hope I never take those kinds of days for granted!

Family Movie Night!

We tried to start the tradition of every Friday being Family Movie Night before we moved, but somehow we, and by we I mean Hubby and I, were always so exhausted that it usually didn't happen.  Fridays were supposed to be Hubby's day off, but he usually had to work at least a little.  And the girls and I were in a homeschool performing arts co-op that that left me so drained I wanted to go to bed at 4 o'clock in the afternoon.

However, since moving to BR we've had family movie night every Friday night so far.  I believe this is due largely to the fact that we aren't involved in anything else yet.  No homeschool groups or co-ops, no friends to get together with, not really having anywhere to go.  Which isn't necessarily a bad thing.  All of the girls love watching a movie together, although that may be more because of the popcorn than all of us being together.  But Hubby and I do enjoy us all being together and enjoying something as a family.  And as we get settled more here and join groups and find friends, I think that we'll have finally established the routine of Family Movie Night so that it is a tradition that will stick for years!  Tonight its Dr. Dolittle--old school!  What are you doing with your family tonight?