Saturday February 6, 2010

Today was a primary activity for the kids at the church. The activity was putting together little bracelets and making cards for the children in Haiti. I was explaining to Maiya about why we were doing this activity. I explained what had happened, and that we were trying to do something small to help out. Maiya ran to her closet and grabbed 2 dresses. She said that she wanted to wear 2 dresses to the activity, so that she could share one of her dresses with one of the girls from Haiti (she thought they were going to be there). She said that the girls in Haiti would like to be dressy. There were lots of kids there, and they did so well with the bracelets. They were also accepting donations of tshirts, waterbottles, mini first aid kits, sandals etc. I think it's so important for children to be doing things like this. Serving others is something I have always enjoyed doing, and I want my children to be able to learn about how important service is. I have thought of trying to do one service project a month together (obviously that would not be the only time we would be helping others, but it would be nice to have one specifically planned to do as a family) We shall see what we can come up with.

After the activity, Kaitlyn got to go swimming with some friends. The other kids just played around and Damian got to play his videogames. (I only let them play for one hour each on the weekend. Damian had already played his 1 hour yesterday, but he won the reward for being the child who did the most money jobs during the week. His reward was 1 hour extra of videogames.) Tyson however, found more trouble to get into. He wanted to have a drinkof juice, so I gave him one. 2 minutes later I found he had spilled it all over the floor, and was slurping it up...*I am shaking my head right now*
Catcher had Ethan over to play, and Damian had his friend Julian over. Grant and I went out on a date tonight. First we went bowling together. I am such a terrible bowler. We played 4 games and I lost every single time. My worst loss was 134 - 41. I was the 41. Seriously, that was probably the worst game I`ve ever bowled in my life, hahaha!! We had fun though. Afterwards we went to Mr. Mike`s for appetizers, and then off to wal mart to get some snacks for the rest of the evening. I had just bought Grant the Simpsons season 20 DVD`s. So we went home to relax and watch a few episodes. It was a fun night.