Sanity Saver

I know there are some fabulous people reading this blog that don't have kids right now so here is my advice to you. Before you do - take a trip! yes, you will spend money, but enjoy the silence and lack of stress :)

For those of you that do have kids, I can say that I never wanted to do anything because the kids would always interrupt me or make it a lot more time consuming and difficult than it needed to be. So here is my sanity saver tip for you: give them something to do! Stupid, right? No. I was making things so much more difficult than they needed to be. For example, when I was getting ready to make the playdough I gave them an assignment. They had to go and find things to play with the playdough. I also had them find shapes so it was also a learning game. When you are cooking dinner or lunch, give them a piece of paper and some crayons and have them decorate their placemats.

Little things like these "assignments" help them feel like "big" kids and they also feel like they are helping. We know the real reason though. So we can do what we need to do. But let's just keep that between us ;)