Weekend Parenting

Heather and I spent the past weekend brushing up on our parenting skills. No, nothing on that front to report. Actually, I was more trying to find any form of parenting skill. Heather already came equipped with them standard, no extra charge! She's dealt with her nieces for longer than I've been around, that's where she got the practice from. She brought them back on Thursday morning, and at ages 4 and 2, we had our hands full. It was tiring and fun. It wasn't like the standard get them all riled up and give them tons of sugar and send them back to their parents like usual. Instead, we riled them up, got them so much sugar, immediately regretted prior decision, and then chased them around. On the hot days, we got into the "swimming pool". It was a pretty good hit, so at least it's getting some use. Currently, it doesn't even qualify as a hot tub, its more of a luke warm tub. But, the girls liked it a lot and we did some swimming, played in the back yard, played at the park, read lots of books, kept us up way too late, and many other things through out the weekend. We even ventured out to a former co-worker's wedding. The wedding went well with the two of them, the reception, not very well at all. We had a couple disputes in which children got taken out of the reception hall to calm down. The traveling was interesting too. Lots of watching for cows, hay bales, and singing Sunday school songs. I still remembered pretty much all of them too. Anyhow, now Heather and I are trying to catch up on sleep. Tonight's bedtime might be around 7:30!