3 MORE DAYS!!

3 more day of school left! I sometimes get so excited that for 3 months I get to sleep in  that I overlook that tiny little fact that I have no sanity for 3 months.
My daughter and my son are (how do i put this politely...)difficult together.  Make me scream difficult. Makes me lock myself in the bathroom and say SERENITY NOW SERENITY NOW difficult.  Now, don't get me wrong. I love my children. Just not all together.

(I am singing cruel summer from ace of base in my head)

My son and daughter just butt heads about everything. It's a competition with everything. who got the bigger spoon, who gets to sit in the middle chair, who can talk the fastest who can get dressed the fastest who can jump the highest who can get mom to cry the first.....

(not an over exaggeration)

So I am trying a preemptive strike to keep my any bald spots from forming....

I am really enforcing these Past crafts:

My clothespin discipline chart (which I should say works like a dream! I just say PURPLE and my son's all "I'll be good...I'll be good!"

and my spinner  which helps us to make the important decisions in life--Like who gets to sit where and who's turn is it say the prayer and who gets to pick the movie.

I'm also implementing some new things.

Remember these cute things from brown paper packages

I made me some knock off versions for our "Good Deeds"

(yes, I realize mine aren't as cute. I have accepted it and moved on)

I found a whole big bag of these poker chips (I was orginally going to use tickets) for $1 at the thrift store.

I painted some so we had a rainbow of colors

and then for family night we sat down and talked about what are good deeds and what would be not so good deeds.( the list of not so good deeds is as follows:

No biting

No punching

No throwing things at peoples heads

No kicking

No poking people's eye balls out

No scratching

No pulling hair

(which I lumped into

Don't fight or hit )

(makes you want to come to our house don't it?)

and made our family rules to help us remember what we should be doing (or what we shouldn't be doing!)

(Just painted the frame (it had no glass) and used a couple different cricut cartridges to make them all fit.)

( to make the flowers: cut out circle and then cut it out cinnamon roll style and  roll it up you can do it tight or loose....I liked mine loose)

i HOT GLUED the flowers on cause my gun was feeling neglected

You do something good (or you don't do something bad) you get a token. ( I was thinking about color coordinating the rules with the tokens but talked myself out of it!) You get enough tokens you get to do something fun! (those really fun things are coming in my next installment of "Trying to survive SUMMER!")

(Hey look at this other cute family rules that I found:

Found http://1luckeegirl.blogspot.com/2010/05/ok.html