Oh Thanksgiving break...! The break that we were supposed to have a newborn. I remember from Fall Break thinking it was my last break with my kids and I wanted to make it fun. Now here I was - with a whole week on my hands with my kids and no energy or will to be "fun". On top of that every day was like, "well... maybe I will have the baby today". From parent teacher conference all of the kids' teachers said they needed to work on math facts. So I had made a plan to do those everyday for Thanksgiving and Christmas break since we were going to have low key breaks with the baby. I had made this chart. To "lessen the blow" of having to spend their breaks doing math facts I didn't make them do any jobs over the break - they were pretty stoked about that!
Then on Sunday night we made a list of things they wanted to do over break. They made this list - I didn't put anything. AS you can see we did all the things - EXCEPT have a the baby. I was glad they considered that a "fun thing" - I am glad they are excited. Because I have such great friends I didn't really take any of my kids these places or do anything at my house - my friends did it all. So there are NO pictures. But the kids had 2 sleep overs (the Barretts and the Okerstroms), the girls had play dates, the boys went to the skate park almost every day, Madison did a puppet show about the first Thanksgiving, the girls went rock climbing, the younger 3 went swimming, and they all took a 4 mile bike ride (round trip) to a park with their friends and had a picnic (I met them there in the car).
It was a great Thanksgiving break.
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