Here I am, sitting here as I do each year, wondering what to do what ALL THIS STUFF:)
Like everyone else, we just celebrated several Winter Holidays, and the gifts and crafts are pile to the ceiling. I have fallen right into the whole "out with the old" thing. In the last two days I have removed an amazing amount of NOTHING from my home-it's amaziong how it piles up. I just did this over the Summer, and yet here I am again...
The kids didn't get all that much-compared to past years which have been insane. One year a grandmother shower up with 9 55 gallon trashbags full of gifts-for TWO children. She now has MANY grandchildren to buy for in the family-and I am all the more grateful to get less. We just have NO room.
We did break down and get the kids a cheapy little plug in video game. It's that little plug and play Ms Pac Man. My husband and I have been stealing it from them-it's really cute. I only bouhgt it so that I could have something "worthy" to "take away" if the kids don't focus on school work and chores. With Skye, it's always the computer-she LOVES it, and will get any amount of work done to spend time on paintshop pro or checking out her email. With the boys, well, I didn't have much to go on. They have SO many toys that nothing really means anything. Jordan tends to get a little "passionate", ok, obsessed, with things, and that's a level there...The video game is working wonders-the kids are getting SO much done to earn an hour a day before bedtime. This has TOTALLY blown away wanting to watch TV as well....They also got Battleship, Yatzee and Boggle for the car and waiting for other's to practice things, etc.
They got a ton of books, Leap Pad stuff, magnet sets(3), drawing books, art study books, legos, software and crafts...And here I sit, in our schoolroom, trying to figure out where it's going....It's not like anything is LEAVING the schoolroom-not with ANOTHER child sitting in for formal math and english (Jule's!) this February...(he is starting Singapore on his fourth birthday)
I have no idea where it is going...I think I will need a week to re-organize it...( I LIKE to organize, thankfully:))
Off to fold laudry-I haven't posted her so ling, I just thought I'd pop in.
Sami