Oct

I can't believe it has been a whole month since I have been on there. Life is marching by. It has been a month filled with many events and emotions. As the days go by and school gets more routinue some kids are having a tougher time. Very hard as parent as we struggle daily with those emotions and our own. I have belonged to a book club for many years now and the book we are reading is about raising children in our "fast" paced society and all that this brings to our children and their lives. It has made me stop and think about this as we raise our children and the choices we help them to make. I think of my Grandparents and even my parents and what having chilren meant to them. I think that they let kids be kids more than we do today. The simplicity must have been easier in so many ways. But we have kids in 2010 so the question of the month for me is how to raise kids today in the world they live in and bring some of that simplicty of yesterday.

A trip to the pumpkin patch. For our niece and nephews birthday we headed to the pumpkin patch. It was a lot of fun and NEVER in my life have I seen as many pumpkins. Not only the pumpkins but the people...a steady stream. The kids had fun finding just the "right" pumpkin.

Riley

Soccer games....all are playing at some point on each Sat:) It was a beautiful day for soccer and so much fun! Riley really loves playing and got some good running in! Should be so tired tonight:) The younger had fun and were so cute. Brianna and a couple other kindergartners have to hold down the show as most of our team is young and not too sure about all of this. A friend of mine took all these pictures...how fun to see! The best part of soccer for our younger team is the snacks at the end:)

soccer