Fun Day as a Mom

Today I spent the day off, for Martin Luther King Day.  Andrew was working, so I was home with the kids.  I had to get after the kids for a few things, but I felt like I handled them better than usual.  Brynlee stabbed Maverick with a pencil for bothering her while he cleaned.  She is also the queen of stashing things around the house.  When you ask her to put something away, she tend to just put it somewhere else, but not away.  After a spanking for Maverick I asked her how she felt and why.  She said she was sad for getting a spanking.  I was careful to explain that she should feel bad because she hurt Maverick, not because she got in trouble.  It shed a good light on the situation and parenting in general for me.  I need to make sure that my reprimands are meeting the goal which is to correct the behavior, not for her to fear me or be afraid of getting caught, but to want to be good.

I have been working on eating less sugar and more healthy as part of a plan to improve my anxiety and endometriosis.  Maverick has really picked up on this and made a lot of healthy choices in his eating.  Every time he picks something that he thinks is healthy he wants me to feel his muscles to see how strong he was. He got on the rowing machine and pulled it back a few times.  Ha ha ha he punched the tile floor.  Trying to hide a wince he told me that just like the Hulk it didn't bother him because he was so strong.  So funny.

Grandma Shaw got Brynlee a gift card to get a movie. This is the movie she picked ha ha....I made a different suggestion for her. 

Lizzy made smoothies for dinner.  She has been pretty good about following recipes and making things from her cookbook.  She was supposed to add a few chocolate chips as a garnish.  1 1/2 tablespoons.  Well....she added 1 1/2 cups....it was a bit sweet.  It was actually still not bad if you thought of it as a dessert.

Easton and Brynlee are officially a year older, they are so cute.  Easton is starting to show his personality and we have had to teach him "no".  He responds usually with a smile, tests again, smiles, and luckily we are seeing that he is learning it. :D  Brynlee is full of spunk and personality.  She is always laughing and happy.  We ask her to do things and she very optimistically says "sure".  It's the best, I want it to last the rest of her life.  

Life is good.  Teaching is good, but I have a big class that makes it harder.  I wish it was smaller, but I love all the kids, it's hard to wish for a smaller class when you know if you had one, you would miss out on some of the kids.