Schools out for summer used to be my favorite phrase, but three kids later not so much. Now it means finding activities for all three kids to do at the same time so they don’t kill each other and we don’t completely lose our sanity! Some days it already feels like our sanity is long gone… I mean adopting three kids at once, who does that? Oh yeah, crazy people! We love them dearly and most days wouldn’t trade them for anything, but just like any parents you have those days you consider it…
They truly are great kids but getting them to respect each other is hard work. Real respect from a place of honesty, trust & love was never modeled for them till us, so we understand them not grasping it yet. We just wish there was a quicker way to get it through to them.
In order to keep things civil here at home we’ve looked up every kids activity within a 25 mile radius. Thank The Lord we found a half day Christian summer school program for our oldest, and our youngest got into a Christian PreSchool program. That just left our girl with nothing to do, so far she’s got swim lessons going and loves it. You almost need a 3rd & 4th job to pay for all these activities. They are great programs but they aren’t free. It’s a catch 22 you need the programs so you can actually get work done but at the same time the money you make is going right out the door to the programs. We decided to get smart about it… We set up activity accounts for each kid and we have them put some of their chore money in each month. They get to fund their own fun & pick their own activities (with in reason).