Apparently I am mean and unfair. Oh well get use to it.

I love my kids. They didn't happen by accident. We actually had to try and have them. So I didn't come into parenthood accidentally like some do. It was on purpose and by choice. I knew I was going to have to make sacrifices and never quite have privacy ever again. It was still something that I happily ran towards.

So fast forward ten years and I have become mean and unfair according to some parents and my children. Oh well. They can deal with it. My kids do not have TVs in their room and have limited electronic time each day and only if their chores are done. Oh yes, my children have chores. They have things that they are expected to do around the house. If things are not done then they don't get to do fun stuff. Even my two year old is expected to throw her diapers away (we are starting to potty train), put her dishes in the sink and help pick up her toys. 

We all want to our children to have more than what we had growing up. I think where parents differ is on how they define more. To some its more stuff and less responsibility. And that is their right I guess. I actually thought about this quite a bit this week. What was the more that I want to give my kids? 

My conclusion was that it had nothing to do with stuff at all. I want them to have more opportunities than I did. I want them to try more things than I was able to do. I want them to find more out of life earlier than I did. I want them to have more.

My daughter Amazes Me

Lucas and Nathanial were recently gone for the weekend. They left Friday night and came home on Monday. What was the first thing she did? Well I was expecting her to go straight for her Dad but she ran by him yelling My Thanul and gave her brother Nathanial a great big hug. She did finally get around to loving on her dad. I just thought it was cute.

The Moving Wall

The first time I saw The Wall I was 18 and in Washington D.C. The last time the Moving Wall visited Albany Oregon I missed it. I started out this morning taking my boys to help scouts from our pack put out American Flags around the Albany Veteran's  Memorial. If you ever have a chance I would highly recommend checking this memorial out. 

The boys got to look up their great uncle on the wall. We got to talk about the sacrifice that some make so that we have the freedoms that we have today. It was a moment that I don't think we will forget.