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Selasa, 15 Agustus 2017
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Jumat, 04 Agustus 2017
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Senin, 17 Juli 2017
Tips for a Toddler Beach Trip
Recently we visited the Texas coast with some friends. Hello sunshine and sand!
We had so much fun, and I feel confident that future trips will be successful as well.
Here are some lessons I learned about taking toddlers to the beach.
1. Take lots of sand toys! Our kids loved to dig in the sand. They dug almost the entire time, and we formed tunnels and bridges and a moat. We never quite formed a sandcastle though; our son kept taking his shovel to it.
But the sand toys were their favorite part of the ocean.
2. I learned that the ocean waves can be intimidating to kids, even fearless toddlers that love the swimming pool. So my fears of drowning were greatly reduced. (Obviously your kids will be different than mine.) It also helped that we had four adults watching the kids, so there were eyes on everyone.
3. Feed the seagulls! Somehow the waves were scary, but the flocks of seagulls were exciting for my kiddos. Take some cheap snacks to throw around, and let them chase the birds.
4. Enjoy some family time and simply walk along the water's edge. It was sweet to stroll, hand in hand, along the wet sand. Take time for some calm and relaxation with your family.
5. Make a shady spot. We had a shade tent and a large EZ-Up that provided a nice spot for eating snacks and resting. Our friends had their pack 'n play in the shade tent for their baby to sleep in during nap time.
And of course, take sunscreen and snacks. And shower off the sand as soon as possible.
I hope your beach trip is fun as well!!
Rabu, 26 April 2017
All I want for Christmas
Since Thanksgiving is officially over, I can fully commit myself to the Christmas season without feeling guilty. I always feel so bad for Turkey day, getting shunned for Christmas so early in the year.
But alas, Christmas is here. If you are in doubt just watch the news. Crazies out in full force at the malls starting at 12:01 this morning. People being trampled on the Wal-Mart floor all in the name of a cheap television. Ah, the American way:)
Anyway, I've been thinking a lot about my Christmas list this year, as I'm sure good ol' St. Nick is DYING to know what to buy me. Well everyone can stop holding their breath because I've formulated my ultimate list. A list to end all of my miniature lists, and while I made this list with realistic intentions it sort of got out of hand. Some of these items are 100% dream material, but who knows. It's like when we registered for our $600 vacuum assuming nobody would buy it for us, and guess who owns that stupendous Dyson now?! It's possible that one of my lurking blog readers is extremely wealthy and wants to shower me with frivolous gifts. Anything is possible, right?
Let's start with the little purchases and work our way up, shall we?
1. This book is full of awesome photography of dogs, specifically 'designer breeds' such as the cockapoo. I love photography and I love my dog [no matter what anyone says about designer breeds.] I found it on Slobber Space which is an adorable blog, btw.
2. I would like to get back into magazine subscriptions, without actually paying for them myself. Both Elle Decor and Martha Stewart Living would be great surprises in our new mailbox.
3. I feel like I deserve a massage. Not a half-assed 5 minute massage from my husband while he watches golf. A REAL luxurious massage, preferably at the really pricey spa and salon nearby.
4. My new found love, QVC.com, as some amazing fake diamond jewelry. I have Ame--who happens to have great style and you should check out her website---to thank for this discovery. In fact, I purchased a fake wedding set to wear to work so that my real diamonds can be spared the nastiness that is my job. I just couldn't stomach wearing my real set while dealing with bodily fluids, rubber gloves, load of soap and sanitizer, and constant bumps and bruises. It's quite the debate in our household [whether I should be wearing my real diamonds all the time] but for now I'm more comfortable wearing my Diamonique set from QVC. Maybe I will post my fake [blingtastic] set on here sometime if you'd like.
ANYWAY, I've never had real diamond earrings before and we can't exactly afford them now. Plus I'd probably be too paranoid to wear real ones anyway. QVC just so happens to make Diamonique earrings, just like my rings. They are all under $50 and range from 2 carats to 5 carats. I could be wrong but I think that means total weight, so a 2 carat set would actually be one carat per ear. I know, it's quite ridiculous but I think I can pull it off. Now I just have to decide between the princess cut, round cut, or asscher cut:
5. I've always wanted a pair of classy tall boots. And every single year I try on about a million pair and they aren't quite right. Mostly because they heel is too high and I know I'll never wear them without feeling extremely self-conscious. So now that the flat boots are in, I think I'm ready to take the plunge. These are from J.Crew and are $200...which in J.Crew land is fairly reasonable. But we all know that J.Crew has morphed into the most overpriced store known to mankind, right?
6. Here is the heavy-hitter, folks. I haven't even mentioned this one to my parents because I'm sure they'd laugh in my face. But here I am posting it because it seriously makes me drool: The Canon Digital Rebel XTi 10.1 MP. It would be a step above our little point and shoot camera, since it's a D-SLR. The problem is it's $700 on Amazon and that doesn't even include some of the nice lenses. Which can be an additional $1000. YIKES! But those who know me understand my love for photography. I mean, I was "that girl" in college who always took pictures of our friends. And now that I'm all grown up and mature, I'd even refrain from taking pictures at bars as I move onto pictures of our family and whatnot. Seriously, this camera is my dream.
7. Other things I would appreciate: a few 2008 calendars [betchya I get two Cockapoo calendars again this year], a first time homeowners book...maybe the one for dummies, digital scrapbooking supplies [my new obsession], a scrapbook supply organizer, and money. You can't go wrong with cash, folks.Nate keeps telling me that I need 'warmer clothes' for this approaching winter. I don't really know what that means. It's not like I run around in shorts and tank tops year round and I already own a few coats and sweaters. That suggestion kind of frightens me, actually. Like people up here stock up on rabbit fur hats and long underwear for the winter. But regardless, he keeps hinting that I need to consider warm clothes for my wish list. I just don't find that fun, how about you?
Minggu, 23 April 2017
Incentives Rewards for Childrens Behavior Part 2 of 2
I've been asked many times for specific strategies for incentives and rewards with the children, so in Part 1 I presented to you 9 ideas which we implement in our home. In this Part 2 I would like to share with you our Points and Rewards System to be implemented when we leave the children with a babysitter. *smile*
- The general idea
- The rules
- Ideas for reward containers
- My chart for keeping track
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The general idea
The children earn points each time mom, or mom and dad together go out. They can then spend their points at the culmination of each babysitting time, or they may choose to accumulate points and save for larger rewards.
The rules
* Earning points:
Each time mom and dad go out, each of the youngest children earns 5 points. If I go out during the day for a dentist appointment or such and it will only be 90 minutes or so then I only give them each 3 points.
The oldest two teenagers earn the base 5 points, plus the oldest teenager earns 3 points per hour (of awake time), and the next oldest teenager earns 2 points per hour. They earn more points because they know the family's routines and so do directing of children's activities and the food prep.
Our teenagers quit earning points at the time when lights are supposed to be out at 9:00 pm, regardless of what time mom and dad return and the babysitter leaves. There can be some exceptions, however, such as babies or toddlers having difficulties after bedtime.
* Losing points:
A child loses one point for each infraction, but may lose all of their points or even into the negative for that day. We tell the babysitters not to give warnings - if they feel a warning is warranted, then the child needs to lose a point.
We did make an exception, however, for the first several times that we implemented the points rewards plan to help younger children get used to keeping on the forefront of their mind that they have points they are trying to keep by making good choices.
A teenager can lose points for being unfair or getting the children to bed too late. We haven't told the children the rules for teenagers losing points, though. And we give the teenagers the benefit of the doubt in decision making, knowing that they have extra responsibility with mom and dad gone for a little while.
In the past we've taken away one point from everyone when we've come home to a messy house due to children refusing to participate with cleaning up over the course of the time.
* Young children earning, losing, and receiving rewards:
For a 2-year-old or younger we wouldn't do points at all.
For 3 or 4-year-olds we use "visible points" because a scribble on a sheet of paper means nothing to them. A teenager gets 5 points out and puts them in a clear glass cup or mini-bowl (i.e. 5 chocolate chips, M&M's, gummy bears...you get the idea).
At the beginning of the evening the teenager shows the younger children their cup and cheerfully explains what that is for and when she will get to eat them (which is the next morning - explanation for this to follow).
Every time a little one whines, disobeys, hits, or otherwise needs to lose a point, the babysitter is to kindly and patiently take her to her point cup and explain why she is losing a point and puts the point away. Babysitters or teenagers are not allowed to eat the point though as this could cause bitterness from the young child.
The children then get to eat their points the next morning. The reason for this is because if they are allowed to eat their points at bedtime, then they know the babysitter can't take away any more and and they have been tempted to then take advantage of that situation. (How do they get so smart at such a young age?! *chuckle*)
* Spending points for rewards:
We also rarely encourage the younger aged children to save points because we know that they need their gratification closer to the time when they had to work for it. However we have been surprised at how quickly they caught on to the benefits of saving for bigger rewards.
* Videos
This is allowed on longer babysitting times, such as mom and dad's weekly date night. Reasons for this are two-fold. (1) To help the babysitter and teenagers, and (2) to help the children be more excited that we are going on a date.
We let the children watch a video of their choice from the cupboard of parent-approved videos, or from our Netflix queue of pre-selected videos. The children can work out a system of taking turns picking the video. If a child has a bad attitude about the video their sibling chose, then the bad attitude child must skip their next turn for choosing a video.
Video rules:
- All dishes and dinner clean up must be done first, along with any evening chores the children might have such as putting away the day's laundry.
- The children need to get into their pajamas first, have teeth brushed, and generally be ready to crawl into bed after the video.
- Our friends who created this points system choose to have the selected video follow a 30-minute Christian-based video first, so that it's not just a night of pure brainless entertainment. *wink* We've not chosen to implement this personally, as the typical 90 minute movie already maxes out our younger children's attention span. And, we do not own more than a couple Christian videos (we don't own hardly any DVD's at all but choose to utilize Netflix almost exclusively, or the library). But from what I've found Netflix only offers Veggie Tales for 30-minute Christian videos and only a handful of those are "instant play".
- the video must either be finished or turned off in time for lights-out time.
The children earn rewards in about 4-hour blocks of time throughout the day. This way the children are receiving the rewards of their efforts for good behavior in reasonable amounts of time. And, if someone is having a difficult time for part of the day they have a re-start point built in a couple of times.
We give 5 points for each of three block of time over the course of an entire day from 8:00 am - 12:00, 12:00-4:00, and 4:00 - 9:00 pm. So over the course of 2 days the children have the opportunity to earn up to 30 points, and the teenagers as much as 44 points in a day to be spent however they like.
Ideas for reward containers
When we began the points and rewards system I went shopping to establish our first cache! *smile* I headed out to the local Dollar Tree, and to Wal-Mart to establish our reward system items. For younger children I found abundant non-food items at the Dollar Tree, and have found the food reward items at Wal-Mart, as well as some good non-food rewards.
The teenagers choose their own rewards to have on-hand for when they've accumulated enough points. They typically choose rewards such as clothes, lattes, hair jewelry from Lilla Rose, make up, clothing accessories, or simply trade in points for cash to save up for larger items they would like.
Examples of rewards:
1 Point -
- 1 Skittle
- 1 Mike & Ike
- 1 Candy corn
- 1 M&M
- 1 Hot Tamale
- 1 rubber band hair holder
- Any really little...
5 Points: (think 5 Skittles-wroth)
- 1 Lifesaver
- 1 Starburst
- 1 Hershey's Kiss
- One packet of Hot Chocolate (marshmallows to cover the top = 3 pts. more)
- 1 Sticker sheet
- 1 three-inch glow in the dark bug
- 1 piece Sidewalk chalk
- 1 mini sticker-tape dispenser (Dollar Tree, pkg. of 3)
10 Points: (think 10 Skittles-worth)
- 1 Ring Pop
- 1 pkg. of Smarties
- 1 Reece's Peanut Butter Cup
- 1 Peppermint Patty
- 1 small chocolate bar (2-inch-size)
- 1 small lunch bag size Potato Chips
- 1 Matchbox car
- 1 Headband
- 1-half package of refill caps for cap guns
- Bubbles
- Army men
- Rubber stamps
- Rubber stamp ink pad
20 Points:
- 1 small package of fruit chews
- 1 small package of animal cookies
- 1 small Chocolate bar
- 1 whole package of refill caps for cap guns
- 3 sets of earrings (a card of 9 sets of earrings cut into 3 portions).
- 1 Headband
- 1 package of elastic hair holders
- Hair clips
- 1 Bandana
- Garden gloves (Dollar Tree)
- A Doll set of brush/comb/mirror (Dollar Tree)
- 25-piece Puzzle (Dollar Tree)
- Socks
- Pens, Pencils, Erasers, Mechanical Pencils
- Squirt guns
35 Points:
- 1 one-cup size container of cookies
- 1 regular-size package of Skittles or candy
- 1 pkg. Corn nuts
- 1 Ice cream bar (or a coupon for one)
- A full-size tape measure (Dollar Tree)
- Tools (clamps, screwdriver, hammer...)
- A mini flashlight (Dollar Tree)
- A book light (Dollar Tree)
- An 8-inch plastic dragon or dinosaur (Dollar Tree)
- Action figures
- Scented lotion (Dollar Tree)
- Scented hand soap (Dollar Tree)
- Package of stickers
- Umbrella
- Books
50 Points:
- Certificate for an Ice Cream Cone
- Cap guns
- Nerf dart guns
- Sunglasses
- Model ships/airplanes, etc.
- Clothing
- Clothing accessories
- Lilla Rose Flexi Clips
- Make up
- Books
- Coffee beverages
- Cash in exchange for points
* Food items are always valued higher than non-food items because we'd rather they buy non-food items; but we know how special the food items are so we will always allow them in our reward system.
* Non-food items are valued at 10 points for $1.00 generally
My chart for keeping track
The friends we got this points and rewards system idea from initially used a tablet to keep track with, and eventually developed an Excel spread sheet. I personally prefer creating charts in Microsoft Word "tables", so that is what I did for our family (you may share my template from Dropbox if you'd like, for FREE). Here is the chart I print out and keep one current page of on the refrigerator. *smile* We keep a running record of what is earned, what is lost for poor behavior, what is spent on rewards, and what is the running total for each person. And the children can reference this at any time which is also an incentive in its self.
Here is my plan for recording points and acquiring the rewards:
I recognize this may seem like a lot. But it's very simple, really, especially once you get into the habit of giving the points, then keeping track of who lost and who spent. That's all it is. Our children all caught onto it immediately. The most amount of time goes into simply shopping for your initial rewards supplies, but then you're good to go having found where you'd like to buy things and replace them as they run out. And it's so worth it in my opinion! Our children then do beautifully each managing their own behavior while we're gone, making the babysitting time really pleasant for all.
Our children have all been extremely enthusiastic about this new points and rewards system! *cheer!* They all look forward to it every single time I need to go out, and the youngest children are frequently asking me when I'm going to go out again so that they can earn more points. Perfect. *smile* I hope this idea can be a blessing for your family as well, and I'd love to hear about how it works for you!
Blessings on your family efforts,
Resource:
Here in Dropbox you may print for FREE the points and rewards system rules written out for your reference.
Other related posts of mine you might enjoy:
Here is my plan for recording points and acquiring the rewards:
- I am the only one to do any recording of points earned or lost or spent.
- Each time I go out I record the date, and I record the description of the event for which I'm going out such as our weekly date night.
- Each event of going out uses two rows, a white one and a shaded one.
- I write down in the white "+" (given) column how many points each person is given upon my departure.
- While I'm gone, the babysitter keeps a running list on a post-it note of any points that were lost. This usually references only 1 or 2 people. When I get home we go over the list together and make sure it's justified and everyone understood why points were lost. I also talk to the babysitter, and teenagers tell me how each other did.
- In the morning we then settle up the earned points.
- In the white "-" (taken away) column I record any points that were lost due to poor behavior or disobedience.
- Next I go through each child one at a time, youngest to oldest, and either serve their remaining "visual points" from their glass bowl or allow them to go shopping in the rewards containers to spend their saved accumulated points.
- I record in the shaded "spent" row below in the "-" column any points that were spent.
- Then I record in the "=" column the remaining running total of points for each person.
- Once each person has settled out I do not allow them to go back and change their mind, deciding to spend points that they previously decided to save. Done is done.
- I am the only one to help children shop in the rewards containers.
- (In this photo of my chart, the teenagers column's are not accurate because I forgot that once to give them both the base 5 points, and then the additional per-hour points. Usually their earned points for a 3-hour babysit would equal the base 5 points, then 2 or 3 points per hour depending on if they are head or assistant babysitter. So for a 3-hour sit they would earn 14 points for the oldest teenager, and 11 for the next oldest.)
I recognize this may seem like a lot. But it's very simple, really, especially once you get into the habit of giving the points, then keeping track of who lost and who spent. That's all it is. Our children all caught onto it immediately. The most amount of time goes into simply shopping for your initial rewards supplies, but then you're good to go having found where you'd like to buy things and replace them as they run out. And it's so worth it in my opinion! Our children then do beautifully each managing their own behavior while we're gone, making the babysitting time really pleasant for all.
Our children have all been extremely enthusiastic about this new points and rewards system! *cheer!* They all look forward to it every single time I need to go out, and the youngest children are frequently asking me when I'm going to go out again so that they can earn more points. Perfect. *smile* I hope this idea can be a blessing for your family as well, and I'd love to hear about how it works for you!
Blessings on your family efforts,
Resource:
Here in Dropbox you may print for FREE the points and rewards system rules written out for your reference.
Other related posts of mine you might enjoy:
- Incentives & Rewards for Children's Behavior, Part 1 of 2
- "Raising Real Men - Surviving, Teaching, and Appreciating Boys"
Sabtu, 15 April 2017
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Rabu, 12 April 2017
Thank you Mr Jobs for helping me document our life
And really, thank you for all things Mac. What would we do without our MacBook/iMac/iPhones/iPods? Contemplating an iPad just to complete our family of Apples. Seriously. We are 'those' people now.
I digress.
Taking photos with my big Canon is still my fave. The picture quality obviously blows the iPhone 4 away and it SHOULD or else I wasted a whole lotta moolah on my SLR. But the iPhone is just so darn easy to use and so accessible since it's basically an extension of my hand most of the time. And I can upload the pictures directly from my phone to Flickr without ever plugging anything into the computer. So easy! But this means that iPhone pictures comprise about 80% of my photostream these days. Which is fine but because the quality isn't so hot, I tend to reject these pictures for my blog. I'll agonize over which picture to choose for an Instagram shot, and talk myself down from posting about 120 images per day over there because I don't want to flood IG feeds with 25 variations of the same pose (at least not regularly, but occasionally I can't help myself). The other non-IG'd images will just sit. Neglected. Lonely. Poor guys.
So I feel like I want to make a semi-regular blog post dedicated to iPhone pictures. It's okay if the quality isn't great. They certainly do tell a story and even if you follow me on IG (user name mrsjuliagoolia, of course!), hopefully you will see a few different angles so it's less like Groundhog Day over here and more awesomeness of oversharing the details of my life. Yes. That is my goal.
(really bad quality to start with, but whatever. Didn't even IG this one at all. But me and the babes in the bed at 6 am. Why are early-morning bed shots a fave lately?)
(this is a scene that I did IG but there were a lot of other shots that were super cute and didn't make the cut. Sunday morning at Starbucks. Henry came along and was not happy about being outside. Freaking out.)
(our treats)
(unreal sky)
(Monday night after a loooong day. Daddy got just a few minutes with the kids on the couch before CC was begging to go to bed. Hate the quality, love the moment)
(oh yeah, and before Nate got home---guess who is sitting at the dinner table now? I know. She is TOO big!)
(Tuesday morning, 5 am, the gym. IG'd one of these to mention how much I desperately needed that 'me time' kicking my own butt. Needed. And also? I have to wear pigtails to exercise now with my shorter hair)
(on Tuesday I decided to ask Andrea if she wanted to come to the zoo with us. It was 27 degrees outside but sunny! And there are indoor exhibits! It was seriously so much fun to have the entire place practically to ourselves. Blurry shot of my little crew in the bathroom before we went inside the zoo itself. Took the wagon in with us to the handicapped stall, and managed to pee with CC in the Ergo. Epic.)
(ape!)
(mommy monkey with one very large breastfeeding boob and one non-existent boob. I felt her pain.)
(cool jelly fish)
(Eli and Truman being two years old)
(And Tuesday afternoon---just a little photoshoot with my girl. She was being so freaking cute with her new toy keys from Truman's attic stash of baby toys. And I tried to wear my hair curly---read: air dry---and liked it better this time around. Therefore I probably won't use a blow dryer again for quite some time)
(Wednesday night: single mom fun at dinner time and bath time)
(And this morning, Thursday: home after my gym time and mister T had been awake the entire time. Since 5am. Not my problem when at the gym, holla! My coffee tasted abnormally good and Cecelia was in a fantastic mood. Therefore, numerous pictures followed)
(the front and back cameras on the iPhone are pretty different, huh?)
(my babe would love to try some coffee. Too bad I'm selfish and she can just get it indirectly through my milk)
(And! Figured out what to do with her long bangs!)
And that's a week in the life through the eyes of my iPhone. :)
Also? Can I just mention that I'm totally stressing out about our family trip to Missouri next week? We decided to suck it up and fork over the money to fly instead of making an 8 hour drive with two children. Obviously both methods of travel are potentially scarring but Nate was the one who decided that a 45 minute flight, then a 2 hour drive to my parents house would be less risky than 8 straight hours in a car. I tend to agree considering that Cecelia fell out of love with her car seat again. And if we made the drive then we'd SURELY realize that we need a mini-van and I don't think Nate is mentally ready to go to that dark place just yet. So he's avoiding it by purchasing plane tickets instead. Good move, Nate!
Truman has flown a ton in his 2.5 years, so much that I honestly lost count. Maybe 10 round trips so far? But the last time he flew was in February, when he was still able to fly for free. This was also the last time I was at my parents house which is just NOT okay, and Nate wasn't even there for that visit so it's been even longer for him (and Cecelia has never been to MO, obvi). So anyway, Truman is an old pro with flying although it's now a different ballgame financially to pay for three tickets. I think he will be just fine during the trip and I have a few 'Target dollar bin' finds for him up my sleeve to keep him entertained. And Cecelia should be okay as long as she can be attached to the boob most of the flight (nursing cover win!).
The main thing stressing me out is making a list of what to pack, since we will be leaving on a Tuesday and coming back the next Monday. That is a long time and I always tend to overpack stuff I don't really need on long trips, and under pack things I could have actually used. Anyone else do this? So annoying. Also, I'm sure it will be a lot warmer in MO than it has been in WI which throws me off for outfit choices. All of this is really pretty dumb because we will have NO RESPONSIBILITIES down there other than to halfway care for our children (grandparents will most likely take a lot of that off our plates, too, the saints that they are). So who cares if we each wear the same too-warm outfit every day. We will be lounging around drinking coffee and chatting with my family non-stop. Nothing else matters.
Also, Nate and I work on Monday but then we will be off until the following Tuesday. This is a glorious sentence to type. Amazing. And very much needed.
So I won't be keeping up my newfound streak of posting frequently next week. I'm sure you won't mind as you might be busy stuffing your face with turkey and pie and potato dishes like me.
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