Our Life

Some people may say we're always on the go, never stay still, or that we simply don't just chill and relax at home being a family. The truth is, we are a busy family and we like it that way. Rarely do we go out during the week unless you count Monday night storytime at the library, or every other week's Taco Tuesday. Our other evenings are spent eating dinner as a family(albeit at a restaurant or at home), playing in the backyard, going for bike rides, and destroying the house with the millions of dress-up clothes, Little People sets, and enough accessories to fill two dollhouses.

The great and wonderful thing about being a teacher and having a husband that is a teacher is we are both home by 5 pm each night. Sure, there are times when we like to get out of the house by ourselves and do what we like. Jacob has basketball on Monday nights and I have my every other Thursday night out. But, it makes us happy and happy parents equals happy children and a happy family. We also love it when the grandparents take the kids on a Friday or Saturday night and give us time to be kid-free. Goes back to the whole happy parents, happy family.

We have always stuck by the "work hard, play harder" motto. Okay, so really I don't have to work that hard during the week, I mean I am at the Y by 3:30 usually. But you know what I mean. There's a reason why Florida doesn't have harsh winters and snow days. And that's why we live here! There is so much to do outside (and even inside) and we take full advantage of those opportunities. We also take full advantage of having passes to every park (because we work hard to pay for them) so we go often.

So when I complain about being stuck at home two days in a row on the weekend, it's because we're not an inside family. That also doesn't mean we have to be out doing something, spending absurd amounts of money to have fun and be a family. We enjoy getting together with our friends at the park, going to people's houses and having dinner and playing the wii, taking the girls to their weekly ballet class. The list goes on and on. We also make sure that we only do one major event on one day of the weekend, either Saturday or Sunday so that we do have downtime on the weekend for the girls to be at home. We also make sure to go to church together as a family as often as possible.

So the next time someone tells me to sit still, stay at home, let my kids enjoy being at home playing with their billions of toys, I will tell you this: we do those things, just differently from your family. Our time is during the week when we get home from work or one of the days on the weekend where we don't have much planned. But we enjoy being on the go and my girls do too. I wouldn't take them out on the weekends if they were going to be miserable, but they aren't. So if they're happy we're happy, and if we're happy, then our family is happy.

Oh, and by the way... next weekend we are going to be busy both days! Shocking I know. Saturday the girls have ballet and then we're meeting up with friends to go to Sea World. On Sunday Jacob and I are going to Disney by ourselves to celebrate Valentine's Day while the girls spend the night with the grandparents (you know, making memories and all that). PEACE.