Summer Day 2: How to Salvage a Less Than Perfect Morning

This post is actually for yesterday. I'm still trying to figure out when to blog my day. At nap time when the day isn't really over yet? At bedtime when I'm so wiped I can't write anything that doesn't turn out sounding grumpy? Probably the right answer is to work on it during the day and just finish, edit, and publish at the end of the day. Any bloggers reading this? Do you write everyday? When do you write and what's your "process"?

Anyway, yesterday morning I was completely useless. I stayed up half the night (like a dummy) AND had a sinus infection. My poor kids played by themselves, mostly on pbskids.org till almost 11 when I was finally really alert and moving around. By that time it was only 2 hours from nap time. So I regrouped and made lunch (leftover pizza). I quickly googled activities to wear kids out and scanned a couple of articles while they ate. Then I remembered an awesome blog post I saw on Pinterest. 20 Ways to "Reset" When the Kids [or in my case the parent] are Having a Bad Day.

I knew I needed to get a lot of energy out if the kids were going to sleep. So went took 30 minutes outside and here's what we did:-First, I taught the kids how to do jumping jacks-Then we played a game where I shout the name of something in the yard (ex. slide, vegetable garden, swing, steps, etc) and they run to it as fast as they can... Then run back.-Last, I rolled a giant bouncy ball to them, and when they caught it they had to yell out the name of an animal (you could use colors, places, or whatever) and pass it to someone else

When we came inside, I made the oldest (age 5) jump on the bed 30 times while I put the baby in the bath and got a book to read. He said, "But mom, I'll get tired!".

It's good when we understand each other. : )