It all starts up again...

Fact: The more kids you have, the busier you are.
Fact: The older your kids get, the more they are involved in.
Fact: The more involved you are, the busier life gets!

Idea: Limit, limit, limit! Right?

Fact: Limiting doesn't eliminate all craziness.


I try not to over schedule my kids since it just causes more craziness for everyone, and it wears everyone out! With the constant running, when do we get to sit and relax a bit?

Alexis and David each are involved with Activity Days and Scouting at church, and then we let them pick another activity to do as well. Alexis loves Girl Scouting, so she stays busy with that. She actually gets to play the violin too, but that is because that is offered in school! At this time of year, David always opts for flag football.

Lily is really wanting to do gymnastics, but I have waited to sign her up until I knew what David's football schedule would be--I can only run so many place in a day! Well, practice is on Tuesdays and Saturdays, so that works since Alexis and David both have scouting commitments on Wednesdays. Alexis also has Activity Days on Tuesday evenings, so our Tuesdays and Wednesdays are officially busy for the next couple of months! Looks like gymnastics will have to be Monday or Thursday...

David LOVED practice last night. About 5 kids from his team last year are on his team this year, plus another friend from class. His coach also seems really good and nice. David has the chance of playing quarterback, which is fantastic in his mind, and the kids all voted on their team name being the Trojans (like USC), David's favorite team.

Since Ez works Tuesday and Wednesdays, the kids and I will have fun running around town staying busy. Last night we were gone about 3 1/2 hours, but luckily lost a few kids to sleep on the way home.

Today Alexis had Girl Scouts and David had his pack meeting, so we only had an hour to kill between the two and I had no intentions of running home to try to squeeze in a meal, so I took the kids to Foster's Freeze. We had lots of fun, the kids really liked it--it was their first time eating there. The best part was the ice cream at the end, of course!


Keeping entertained while dinner was cooking


Enjoying some soda


Being Joe doesn't stop in public


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