“I was happy to see him so excited”

How I did it: We headed to the pumpkin patch with the entire family and spent the entire day there.  On Sunday, we headed to the bowling alley, and the children played for awhile.  Their cousins came over, and they had a blast painting the pumpkins and playing games.

Lessons & tips: Listen to your child and think about a budget.

Resources: My own experience

It took me 10 days.

It made me happy

I have been taking the kids to all of their practices. The issue is my daughter Isabelle. She won’t even attempt to play soccer. If you would see the way she is behaving, you would think that I am the one forcing her to play. However, the truth is she was begging me for months to let her play. I was apprehensive after the disaster of trying to get my son Cebastian to play at that age, but I finally agreed. Now, I am fuming because she is constantly crying, standing around, and not listening to the coach. Today I took all of her dresses, which is the only article of clothing that she will wear, out of her room. I said that she needs to play or else she won’t get her dresses back. She said she would play. However, I can’t help but think I am being too harsh. Should I just take is as a loss and not take her to the practices and games? Grrrr….