Nanning- 3 kids for 3 days

I have so much more respect for my parents. I love children but did not realize how much work they really can be. Babysitting kind of shows me what it would be like to have children, but not like the three days Curt and I spent Nanning these three cute girls.

We watched these girls the second half of the week that their parents were gone to Lake Powell. We learned a lot and had fun but I am so glad that I don't have to do that every day. And we know now that I don't think that I could foster older kids. I like the Lords plan one or two at a time and you raise them form babies so you get used to them and all their little ticks one trick at a time. The little girls were 8, 6, and 4. They were like any sisters best friends one minute and fighting the next. The oldest girl could be a great help and really fun to be around, but sometimes she would boss around, tease, or pester her younger sisters until they would cry. I had to send her to her room a few times and she would throw a fit and cry in her room. I kind of felt bad but I knew that she was just trying to test me because I was not her Mom. The middle girl was really cute and fun, but was kind of defiant. Curt had to pick her up and carry her into her bed one night and she tried to tell me that I had to give her everything she wanted. And the youngest girl was a doll and said the funnies things, but when she got tired she would kick and scream. I am sure most kids are like this but being thrown into the middle of it was a bit much at times. It is not easy to try to care for and discipline someone else’s children, especially if you don't really know them. Hopefully things will go better with my own children.

We did have fun making colored pancakes (Pink and Green), making cookies, jumping on the tramp, playing outside in the sprinklers, going to the fun park, reading lots of books and playing games (especially Uno). We had fun and learned a lot from the experience. We are excited to be parents one day, but I don't think we could handle a whole family all at once.

Summer!

I think that summer has finally come to Logan. I can finally go outside without a coat!!
Also I am finished with work!!! It is nice to take a break from the before school reading program, after school homework club, during school reading and math power hour groups, and the one on one reading. In addition to everything else we were required to do on top of that. I will admit that I had a lot of fun I really came to love some of the students I was working with and I absolutely loved the girls I was working with. There were some tense times (but what job does not come with stress), but we had a lot of fun together. Plus I kind of got burnt out by the end of the school year. I am not sure if I am going back next year there have been so many budget cuts, although I would probably go back if I could.

The students were so funny at times. There was one little girl who would come up and give me a hug every time she saw me and one boy who would call out my name until I would say hi. There were these two adorable little first graders who I enjoyed working with. One girl was in my first grade reading power hour group and she was always excited to read. She gave me a hug at the end of the year because she was so happy that her reading was improving. The other little girl was in homework club. She did not start out as one of my favorite because she was so sassy, (she smiled when one of the other students said she was evil:) But as the year went on she became by little friend, I would still have to figure out ways to increase her reading speed but at least we enjoyed working together. One day when she finished early I let her play with magnetic ABC’s and she spelled out “I Love Yuo.” Getting little notes like this and realizing I am helping them made all the stress and headaches worth it.

There were also some kids that I never figured out how to work with but we won’t mention them I am just glad that I will at least have a summer break from them.

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For Memorial Day we drove up to the Idaho Fall Zoo with my brother Allen and his wife Kathy and met up with Curt's brother Ryan and his family. (As you can see summer had not come to Idaho yet :). It is a cute little zoo that had quite a few animals like lions, tigers, bears (oh my) camels, zebras etc. My little nice Emmy, wanted to climb in and pet all the animals. And the niece Hannah on Curt’s shoulders by the monkey cage was so excited to see the monkeys. We had a fun little afternoon at the zoo and had nice little picnic at the park. It was good to see our nieces and nephew since we had not seen them in almost a year.

Here are pictures of me and the kids-


And her is curt and the kids-

As for the rest of our life Curt is taking a summer class and is one month away from being half way done with graduate school. He will graduate next summer and then who knows where we will be going.

I am just relaxing, hanging out with my sister and babysitting for my neighbors.

Tonight we are heading up to Kamas for the Father and Sons camp out. Curt is going to go camping with his dad, brother and nephew and I am going to have a girls night with my nieces, sister in laws and mother in law. It will be fun to go spend time with the family.