We all need a little quiet time

So sometimes I feel that summer is full of chaos instead of simple days.

There always seems to be kids everywhere and days planned with big activities.

I get it.

I don't have a fence which equals kids everywhere and its warm outside which equals big trips to the water park and swimming parties with friends and this and that.

It's what summer is all about.

However, yesterday the girls had melt down after melt down.

Too much fun in the SUN and too many late nights.

So we have been trying something new and I'm loving the time with my girls again.

When Lexi goes down for her nap, the girls and I go outside and shut our curtains (for some kind of privacy) and I help Tallie one on one with her lessons in her learning to read book and then I help Chloe one on one with her letters and writing.

After we play a game.

Lately it's been toy story Yahtzee.

It's nice spending quiet time with them and making some summer memories with JUST US and no friends. It's nice to spend time outside on my favorite patio with the curtains swaying in the breeze.

Since the quiet time things seem to be in order and under control because for awhile there I felt like I had no control over the day or how it went or what we did because there are always kids and friends everywhere. My girls were constantly asking for friends to come play even right after we got back from a friends house or swimming with friends. They were getting to the point where they felt like they needed to be entertained every second or had to be doing some big outing or activity. I want them to feel content. Content to just be and be okay with playing alone and entertaining themselves.

I think my generation has a big problem with this and we are spoiling our kids and our kids are growing up always having to DO something or NEED something. Over scheduling and filling up their day with things to do and always trying to please them.

Kids need to know that life isn't always fun and play and sometimes you don't always get what you want. They need to know that sometimes that's just life.