I put on my classical music Pandora station for the day, and Xander and I:
- built LEGO
- made a smoothie
- folded and put away laundry
- cleared the table
- did art (coloring and paper airplanes) on said table
- played soccer outside with Robin
- played 2 games of checkers. I won the first, he won the second. (Any advice on how to train a good loser, by the way? All suggestions appreciated. The win 1/lose 1 was very strategic on my part).
- drank hot chocolate with marshmallows
- drank hot chocolate with marshmallows
- went bug catching. Catch and release with a praying mantis. :)
Tomorrow he starts first grade. I think he's more ready than I am.
He not only looks more grown up.....he is growing up. What a wonderful day together.
ReplyDeleteI miss you all.
*hugs*
DeleteJean Moskowitz is visiting me! And she has marvelous advice about how to deal with sore losers.... Here"s Jean:
ReplyDeleteWhen I play cards with my grandchildren we kind of make a verbWe kind of have an agreement about it.al contract: "Are you going to cry if you lose?" And, I also say that if you cry then I won't play. I have stopped a game because of sore losing, only to start again at a different time. Then we start all over: Are you going to cry if you lose? Actually, I say that I won't cry either.
We have found that this works for us and now, it has become a joke: "Are you going to cry if you lose? Ha ha ha.
Oooh, I like this! I'll adopt it. And Savta, I know I owe you an email... I just need to sit and write it, I'm sorry.
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