Weekend Recap

Dear James, Daniel and Emily

We had a good weekend I think. Everyone got to enjoy the first weekend with no organized activities that we have had in a long long time. Which was nice because there will be some craziness this week, what with Tammy undergoing surgery today.

We didn't accomplish much around the house. In fact all I really did was some minor picking up. We did our every 2 week shopping trip on Sunday morning. We have developed this habit of 1 big shopping trip every 2 weeks, along with making a menu and list, as a way of controlling our grocery budget. Because with Kim working at the store every day it was getting a little expensive to have her kind of spur of the moment pick stuff up every day.

We then took the boys to play mini golf. It was Daniel's choice, we owed him a day of fun since James had a couple of opportunities to get out and do stuff and Daniel was starting to feel left out and left behind. Then we went home and kind of crashed.

James is definitely ready to get back to school though, he is starting to show the signs of boredom with being home all day, starting to get bored with the play station games and cartoons. But he has 2 more weeks before he goes back. I think he will survive, there is a part of me (my parent's part) that thinks he should be limited in the amount of time he spends playing electronic games and/or TV. But I think that he actually does a pretty good job of monitoring when he is bored with those and goes and plays other things on his own. And I think after all of the Y camps etc. he deserves a few weeks of totally down time from all of the organization and scripted 'fun', he's going to be getting enough of that when school start. However, when school starts I do think we will need to establish some daily time schedules, just not sure what they will be yet.