Getting the family home from work and school and hearing what everyone did can be very hectic at the end of the day. Typically we all sit down to dinner as a family to eat dinner. This is something that both Josh and my family did growing up, something that I hope our children continue with their families.
Many evenings we have some kind of activity after dinner. That can range from basketball, soccer, t-ball, Zumba, returning library books or a school activity. If we don’t have an activity going on we like to hang out as a family. You can find us snuggled up on the couch and relaxing or play board games. As the boys get older we will have to add in homework time to our evening schedule. Something that we have been working on in the evenings with the boys is reading. Our trips to the library have been more frequent.
The boys have to be in bed at 8pm. That means we have to start showers by 7:30 to get all three through and into PJs. Sam enjoys the showers. Louis enjoys bath/showers. Rian despises showers, so sometimes he will get in the shower with Samual. The days of all three boys in the bath are very few and far between. It can be a bit of a circus when they are all in there together.
Samual and Louis get to have pillow talk with Mom and Dad. We have one question that we ask them to answer to sort of wind down the day. Rian likes to tell us about why he should not have to go to sleep, while he rubs his eyes.
With the boys clean and in bed, Josh and I have the evening. Sometimes we are beat and fall asleep. Josh has started working on re-loading equipment in the evening. I have always loved reading so I try to get some in before bed. There is always house work to be done and this is something that often wins the evening, but we all know that if it doesn’t get done it’ll still be there in the morning for us to do.
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