I am quite certain that Family Home Evening is an instrument of torture for parents. Today we had a lesson on keeping the sabbath day holy, and it was an adventure, for certain. We started with a song (Jack's favorite: Latter-day Prophets) and then had the lesson from the Children's Friend. One would expect 8 paragraphs to only take about 2 minutes to read, however, with a 2 year old climbing all over every participant, the 4 and 7 year old jockeying for best postition to see the pictures, and loud laughter and giggling abounding, it took 15 full minutes--and then I had to do the Teletubbies route of re-teaching and going over every piece of information again. On top of that, I am quite certain retention was zero. 
However, the banana splits were declared roundly successful, and all 3 clean children went to bed far stickier than they had been before FHE.
We've done all the homework (Mama had 20 minutes of reading with Jack, where he fully impressed me with his ability to read the hard words in his Avatar book, and then Dad had to do the math game while the pizza bites and garlic bread for dinner cooked. What do people who have more than 1 child DO? Where does one even find time to do all the homework AND practice an instrument?) Xandri went to soccer practice. It was "great!" and she had fun. Asa cried from the moment he came home today until he went to bed. Delightful. His one, brief shining moment was when Mama and Asa sang all the songs he knows. He knows almost all the words to "Twinkle, Twinkle" and he loves "Wheels on the Bus." Embarrassingly, he also sings "Hey, Delilah" by Plain White T's and "Girlfriend" by Avril Lavigne. His mother is a bad influence, it seems. He's still garbling the "ABC's" but he can always sing "G" in the right spot. He's also figured out MOST of the words to the song about being Asa Phippen. He's come great strides in 2 weeks, I must say.
And that's the Monday write-up. Thank Goodness Tomorrow's Tuesday. Hahahaha. I'm very ready for Monday to be done!!
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Okay the torture part is so true. I guess eventually they will learn something and maybe it is more for us in the beginning, but torture it certainly is... Homework is for the birds too. Makenna runs and hides when I tell her it is time to read. You would think that I was going to pull out her teeth, but no just read a book for crying out loud!! What is wrong with her? I love to read and she hates it. She is pretty good at it even, but can't stand it. Your blogs are great so glad that I can read them and know that someone else has a crazy life like mine.
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