Summer Beginnings
We are kicking off the Summer here in Nebraska! The kids are done with school and will be home with me and on the constant prowl for food and entertainment for the next 12 weeks. Maintaining order (ie. sanity) is hard. One thing that I have found is a must, is a tentative schedule. Not so much for activities but for EATING! With some kids that can get their own snacks and some who can't it never fails that you end up with a big kid eating the last of the _______ at 1:00 in the afternoon while one of the youngers looks on in over dramatized jealousy. MOM!!!! So I set down rules of what can be eaten and when. I find that also reduces the constant questioning as to when and what we are eating. Breakfast and snacks are a little more lenient and include some of the same things -- fruit, yogurt, toast, granola. Lunch and dinner are on the table about 11:30 and 5:30. I write on the fridge white board, a list of the meals I will be making that week. I ask that the kids don