One night for family home evening I had the kids write all the bad words they could think of on note cards. Nothing was off limits, they could write any and every word they could think of. Colter, surprisingly, knew a lot of swear words. Anyway, I let the kids who wanted to (a few were too embarrassed or uncomfortable) read them out loud. I read mine out loud and Will read his. Then we burned all the paper cards in the backyard and committed to use good words. I thought it was a worthwhile activity. We will see how traumatized the kids are over it.
Several months ago we had the kids make paper weapons (an ax, bow and arrow, sword etc) then we talked about the things we do to cause fights or wars in our house. Each kid wrote down one thing they did to cause fights and we buried our weapons in the backyard. We agreed to not used our weapons to cause fights in our family anymore. I wish I could remember what everyone wrote down. I do remember that I was impressed with how well the kids knew themselves. They each were able to think of something (easily) that they did and they knew it caused contention. Interesting FHE nights at our house.
Colter has been improving with swimming. I am so proud of him! He swam all the way across the full length of the pool without stopping to touch the bottom or grab the lane floaties. He earned the next ribbon color! He was so proud and happy!
Clare turned 12 and a 1/2 on the 25th. I still haven't pulled together her birthday party. Ugh.
Adell and her best friend, Maggie, have been planning their joint costumes for Halloween. They settled on toy soldiers. I have to make these suckers. Wish me luck.
Lorien had her senior portraits (actually October 4th) for the yearbook. She was a pro! She knew how to tilt her head and body and the whole session was done in a couple of minutes. Lorien only blinked at the flash once. All of those years of training, sitting in front of the TV finally paid off.
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