Time for Children

Quote of the day: “The best thing to spend on your children is your time” (Arnold Glasow, in Richard Evans’ Quote Book, p. 18). A couple weeks ago I was sick so I spent hours laying on our couch, one of our little girls was sick as well. So I laid her down with me for a couple hours. It was so enjoyable! Although I generally hate being sick, the experience was a wonderful reminder to me that time with our children matters. I've been thinking about ways to make more time for my children and here are some of the ideas I came up with:

Three easy ways to make time for your children

Simplify - don't spread yourself too thin. Recognize the things you can "let go of", for me when I had my triplets it was landscape design work, I had to be much more careful of work that I accepted - if any. I enjoy politics very much and I had to let go of that.

Schedule it - give yourself several hours to get the house chores done that you need to and then stop at a certain time and sit down and play with your children. I've found if I do this its amazing how much I'm still able to get done knowing that I have a deadline in which to accomplish my goals. Set aside at least 15 minutes a day to be with your children one on one.

Sacrifice - Take note of the things that you do daily that ties up your time. For me this was surfing the internet and especially facebook. I decided to make a conscious effort to only get on facebook once every two days and I was amazed at how much more time I found myself enjoying, and I was surprise to see how little I actually missed my internet time. Children need our time. Parents play a key role in helping a child develop a healthy level self esteem. Children need our love and the best way to show our love for them is through time. I love my kids and I'm so grateful for them.

4th of July Celebrating

The 4th of July is such a wonderful holiday! Pool parties, BBQ's, Parades, fireworks make it one of my favorite holidays. I love spirit of Patriotism that fills the air.

On the morning of the 4th I woke up to the sound of a torch and flame of a hot air balloon, I jumped up to look out the window to see a big hot air just coming up over the hill, it was so close we could see and hear the large flame. I quickly changed out of my PJ's and ran with my husband and three year old boy outside to see and wave to the people in the hot air balloon.

Every year the Provo Freedom Festival hosts a hot air balloon festival, they get at least 20 or 30 hot air balloons that launch off at the same time from the field by the hospital.

This balloon almost landed on University parkway, it was literally right on the shoulder of the road, but they pulled it over into Carterville park where they would rolled it away.