Just Another Week In January

 Coming up with titles for our weeks is starting to become hard...also, sorry about not having good pictures this week :)

Claire

This week feels like more of a routine and getting back to normal even though she didn't have school on Monday and Tuesday. I made sure to make one day shopping with mommy for groceries, and the other we went to the library. I'm trying to convince her to do her homework, but she is resisting and says it's boring now and that makes it very frustrating for me. Any ideas to bribe would be welcomed at this point! They have started helping me with chores and putting their clothes in the correct drawers after they are cleaned, their big job is cleaning up the toys they bring out every day. All their toys seem to be expanding and I need to figure out how to make some disappear because it is sometimes a full hour of every night cleaning for them. 

Shay

She is still very obsessed with Frozen and likes to act out the movie when she watches because she has many of the characters. Her TV watching is usually really involved with her toys now and Claire has started to copy that by playing with her pony toys when they watched the movie. I think it's better than just brainlessly watching, but I wish they would go back to watching number blocks because they were at least watching something partially educational. Shay has come home from the gym 3 times this week with very colorful hands because she will spend so much time coloring while we are there. Some kids will do one or two pages, but she is coloring so many these days! 

Date? 

We tried to do a family date and it didn't go well...first, it was a last-minute decision to go out to eat and so we didn't leave until after the dinner rush. When we got there it was going to be an hour wait for a table and the girls were already starving apparently so we ordered a take-out meal and waited in the car while the girls watched a show on my phone. Chris fed the girls some of their food while we drove home and we sat at our table trying to enjoy the food that was slightly cold. We played a game together after the girls went to bed as our activity and it made the Saturday pretty good for a thrown-together date night.