Confession #1: I want to wear pretty clothes

If I can get in the routine (like tonight) of getting my babies asleep by 8, I would love the time to start blogging again.  I do love the summer nights playing outside and we just LOVE our new neighborhood and neighbors.  Its a bit odd tonight having such a quiet night but I will let the quiet surround me and start my new blogging chapter.

This chapter will be all about the nitty-gritty honest confessions I have as a mom.  Confession #1:  I want to wear pretty clothes - more specifically - work clothes.  I longingly look at the clothes racks at the stores and rows of heels and lose myself in a minute imagining wearing something other than t-shirts as I walk down the halls of school. As several posts on FB are indicating they aren't ready to go back to school/work, I am secretly missing work a lot.  I miss the idea of work.  I am stuck in this illusion of getting the kids up early, dressing them in clean crisp clothes with washed faces and combed hair to an amazing daycare provider where they will learn the best of things and have the most fun as the frolic in the sun with their friends.  Then I go off to work with my great pair of heels and coffee in hands as I set out to change the future by teaching today's children.  LOL!  Right?  We all know if I worked OUTSIDE the home (because trust me, I DO WORK!) that would so not be the case!  My kids would be throwing fits, mashing bananas in their carseats as I desperately tried to feed them breakfast on the way, and we'd hear all sorts of reports from their daycare providers while I scribbled down lesson plans during my bathroom breaks.  That would be reality.  So, I choose yet again to be content with what God has given me right now.  And I am.  I truly am blessed to be home with my three babes.

As I'm trying to keep up with my teacher friends, here is a glimpse as to what we did today:

If you follow FB, you know already about Sam's ice cream addiction.  He loves it!

 Max and I have started a new reading curriculum written by a mom from thereadingmama.com

 Our sight word is "a" and letter of the week is "t".  Max knows his letters and letter sounds and somehow Sam does too.  I did so much with Max to learn them and Sam somewhere picked them up as well.  Ha!

 Yesterday, Max poked holes along the word "a" with a screwdriver in the carpet - sounds weird...but super cool for a kid like Max and looks great on the window!

 

 We did a syllable jump with our fingers on all the "t" words.

 Max completed a sight word maze to get the turtle to the tent.  He asked me if turtles could jump and I told him that they had to walk.  He showed me how the turtle could walk to the tent but also how the turtle could jump to the tent.  I love how that kid thinks!  (Although standardized testing may not....:/)

Our favorite...army men counting game.  We rolled the dice and counted out army men to put on each square (left to right to reinforce reading).  He LOVES the army men and was so excited to knock them all down when we got to 20 :)

Then we got out our bug capsules that dissolve in warm water.  The kids LOVED watching the capsules dissolve and make predictions about what was going to come out.

 Later in the afternoon, the kids strung pony beads on pipe cleaners.  Sammy was supposed to be napping during this activity but chose to stay awake for it.  He actually did great with fine motor and did it!  Max made a great pattern.

By then we had too many wiggles so it was outside time.  The neighbor girls helped us design a car wash with race tracks, baby pools, water, cars, and kitchen utensils.

 

And that's a wrap!!  What a day!  Emily was here today...just realized she didn't make it in any of the photos!!!