night swims
Melissa
Yesterday we headed to the dollar store, Breanna was needing
something so we picked up some McD's french fries and went shopping.
She picked out some coloring books, but suddenly I remembered
something I read online here, (and I'm crossposting because I know it
was one of these groups, but don't recall which, and plus it's so
cool that maybe someone else could try it). So I picked up a CASE of
the glowsticks. It was maybe $10 altogether.
We came home, grilled out, sat out and played cards (FLUXX and
WaterWorks) for a while, and after everyone was ready to transition,
I suggested maybe it would feel good to swim (honestly, 100 degrees
today and too hot to swim in the afternoon! 80 degrees at ten pm last
night, and it felt wonderful!) It's just odd enough, because usually
I'm hesitant to get them swimming so late, cranky neighbors, hard to
see, I'm exhausted....So while they jumped in, I ran inside, got my
swimsuit and opened up all those glow sticks. In the pool, I cracked
them all open and started quietly distributing them around the pool.
THe girls were THRILLED. We had so much fun swimming around diving
for sticks. The girls experimented with placing them in different
areas and distribution, and we all agreed that we need to have a
party and invite everyone over to swim late at night.
It was so beautiful to see their happiness and contentment shining in
pool late at night. The soft glow through the water was enough to
light their faces, and they were happy to be out and playing games
with dad and mom. We floated in the noodle chairs and watched
lightening bugs. We counted stars and adopted some as our own. We all
gathered around Avari in her baby floatie and laughed as she splashed
her way around to try and get the floating glow sticks. Rachel
learned to dive under water so she could catch as many as Emily was
getting.
I took the big plunge with unschooling, and I'm still finding little
things I didn't realize I was ruining for everyone. We stayed up
swimming until midnight. The little ones got out on their own and
climbed into bed as they got tired. i was surprised to come in and
see them down. Josh had stayed inside to play video games, and he
helped settle Dan into bed with kisses and storytime. :-) He's so
helpful...
Anyway, I might blog it later, I'm still tired and maybe not
verbalizing well how cool it was. Even if you have a wading pool, it
would be cool. We were also talking about how it would be fun to use
the necklace length ones and tape them onto our homemade water park....
Melissa
Mom to Josh (11), Breanna (8), Emily (7), Rachel (6), Sam (4), Dan
(2), and Avari Rose
share our lives at
http://360.yahoo.com/multimomma
something so we picked up some McD's french fries and went shopping.
She picked out some coloring books, but suddenly I remembered
something I read online here, (and I'm crossposting because I know it
was one of these groups, but don't recall which, and plus it's so
cool that maybe someone else could try it). So I picked up a CASE of
the glowsticks. It was maybe $10 altogether.
We came home, grilled out, sat out and played cards (FLUXX and
WaterWorks) for a while, and after everyone was ready to transition,
I suggested maybe it would feel good to swim (honestly, 100 degrees
today and too hot to swim in the afternoon! 80 degrees at ten pm last
night, and it felt wonderful!) It's just odd enough, because usually
I'm hesitant to get them swimming so late, cranky neighbors, hard to
see, I'm exhausted....So while they jumped in, I ran inside, got my
swimsuit and opened up all those glow sticks. In the pool, I cracked
them all open and started quietly distributing them around the pool.
THe girls were THRILLED. We had so much fun swimming around diving
for sticks. The girls experimented with placing them in different
areas and distribution, and we all agreed that we need to have a
party and invite everyone over to swim late at night.
It was so beautiful to see their happiness and contentment shining in
pool late at night. The soft glow through the water was enough to
light their faces, and they were happy to be out and playing games
with dad and mom. We floated in the noodle chairs and watched
lightening bugs. We counted stars and adopted some as our own. We all
gathered around Avari in her baby floatie and laughed as she splashed
her way around to try and get the floating glow sticks. Rachel
learned to dive under water so she could catch as many as Emily was
getting.
I took the big plunge with unschooling, and I'm still finding little
things I didn't realize I was ruining for everyone. We stayed up
swimming until midnight. The little ones got out on their own and
climbed into bed as they got tired. i was surprised to come in and
see them down. Josh had stayed inside to play video games, and he
helped settle Dan into bed with kisses and storytime. :-) He's so
helpful...
Anyway, I might blog it later, I'm still tired and maybe not
verbalizing well how cool it was. Even if you have a wading pool, it
would be cool. We were also talking about how it would be fun to use
the necklace length ones and tape them onto our homemade water park....
Melissa
Mom to Josh (11), Breanna (8), Emily (7), Rachel (6), Sam (4), Dan
(2), and Avari Rose
share our lives at
http://360.yahoo.com/multimomma
Amy Bowers
Wow! Thanks for the great story. Glowstick baths are fun too! Although, not
as cool I bet as the pool!!
Amy
as cool I bet as the pool!!
Amy
On 7/1/06, Melissa <autismhelp@...> wrote:
>
> Yesterday we headed to the dollar store, Breanna was needing
> something so we picked up some McD's french fries and went shopping.
> She picked out some coloring books, but suddenly I remembered
> something I read online here, (and I'm crossposting because I know it
> was one of these groups, but don't recall which, and plus it's so
> cool that maybe someone else could try it). So I picked up a CASE of
> the glowsticks. It was maybe $10 altogether.
>
> We came home, grilled out, sat out and played cards (FLUXX and
> WaterWorks) for a while, and after everyone was ready to transition,
> I suggested maybe it would feel good to swim (honestly, 100 degrees
> today and too hot to swim in the afternoon! 80 degrees at ten pm last
> night, and it felt wonderful!) It's just odd enough, because usually
> I'm hesitant to get them swimming so late, cranky neighbors, hard to
> see, I'm exhausted....So while they jumped in, I ran inside, got my
> swimsuit and opened up all those glow sticks. In the pool, I cracked
> them all open and started quietly distributing them around the pool.
> THe girls were THRILLED. We had so much fun swimming around diving
> for sticks. The girls experimented with placing them in different
> areas and distribution, and we all agreed that we need to have a
> party and invite everyone over to swim late at night.
>
> It was so beautiful to see their happiness and contentment shining in
> pool late at night. The soft glow through the water was enough to
> light their faces, and they were happy to be out and playing games
> with dad and mom. We floated in the noodle chairs and watched
> lightening bugs. We counted stars and adopted some as our own. We all
> gathered around Avari in her baby floatie and laughed as she splashed
> her way around to try and get the floating glow sticks. Rachel
> learned to dive under water so she could catch as many as Emily was
> getting.
>
> I took the big plunge with unschooling, and I'm still finding little
> things I didn't realize I was ruining for everyone. We stayed up
> swimming until midnight. The little ones got out on their own and
> climbed into bed as they got tired. i was surprised to come in and
> see them down. Josh had stayed inside to play video games, and he
> helped settle Dan into bed with kisses and storytime. :-) He's so
> helpful...
>
> Anyway, I might blog it later, I'm still tired and maybe not
> verbalizing well how cool it was. Even if you have a wading pool, it
> would be cool. We were also talking about how it would be fun to use
> the necklace length ones and tape them onto our homemade water park....
> Melissa
> Mom to Josh (11), Breanna (8), Emily (7), Rachel (6), Sam (4), Dan
> (2), and Avari Rose
>
> share our lives at
> http://360.yahoo.com/multimomma
>
>
>
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John & Karen Buxcel
Oh, how positively lovely that sounds! Thank you for letting us share in that sweet memory with you!
Karen
http://www.thewildtribe.blogspot.com
Karen
http://www.thewildtribe.blogspot.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Melissa
To: [email protected] ; [email protected] ; [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2006 11:39 AM
Subject: [unschoolingbasics] night swims
Yesterday we headed to the dollar store, Breanna was needing
something so we picked up some McD's french fries and went shopping.
She picked out some coloring books, but suddenly I remembered
something I read online here, (and I'm crossposting because I know it
was one of these groups, but don't recall which, and plus it's so
cool that maybe someone else could try it). So I picked up a CASE of
the glowsticks. It was maybe $10 altogether.
We came home, grilled out, sat out and played cards (FLUXX and
WaterWorks) for a while, and after everyone was ready to transition,
I suggested maybe it would feel good to swim (honestly, 100 degrees
today and too hot to swim in the afternoon! 80 degrees at ten pm last
night, and it felt wonderful!) It's just odd enough, because usually
I'm hesitant to get them swimming so late, cranky neighbors, hard to
see, I'm exhausted....So while they jumped in, I ran inside, got my
swimsuit and opened up all those glow sticks. In the pool, I cracked
them all open and started quietly distributing them around the pool.
THe girls were THRILLED. We had so much fun swimming around diving
for sticks. The girls experimented with placing them in different
areas and distribution, and we all agreed that we need to have a
party and invite everyone over to swim late at night.
It was so beautiful to see their happiness and contentment shining in
pool late at night. The soft glow through the water was enough to
light their faces, and they were happy to be out and playing games
with dad and mom. We floated in the noodle chairs and watched
lightening bugs. We counted stars and adopted some as our own. We all
gathered around Avari in her baby floatie and laughed as she splashed
her way around to try and get the floating glow sticks. Rachel
learned to dive under water so she could catch as many as Emily was
getting.
I took the big plunge with unschooling, and I'm still finding little
things I didn't realize I was ruining for everyone. We stayed up
swimming until midnight. The little ones got out on their own and
climbed into bed as they got tired. i was surprised to come in and
see them down. Josh had stayed inside to play video games, and he
helped settle Dan into bed with kisses and storytime. :-) He's so
helpful...
Anyway, I might blog it later, I'm still tired and maybe not
verbalizing well how cool it was. Even if you have a wading pool, it
would be cool. We were also talking about how it would be fun to use
the necklace length ones and tape them onto our homemade water park....
Melissa
Mom to Josh (11), Breanna (8), Emily (7), Rachel (6), Sam (4), Dan
(2), and Avari Rose
share our lives at
http://360.yahoo.com/multimomma
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marsaili
And, if you have a Pat Catans around you (I"m not sure if they are only in
Ohio or not---but they are a large craft store, like Michaels) they have the
cases of 100 glow sticks for $7.00 or you can get the extra long ones, 6 to
a pack for $1.00. I stocked up on like $15 of them and took them to the
fireworks. When the guys came around with the $6.00 glowstick necklaces and
the kids started begging, I pulled out our 150 glowsticks that I got for the
price of 2 1/2 at the fireworks and said, HAVE FUN!!! Some kids came by
and asked where we got so many and we gave them some, too. Walking back the
1/2 mile to the car, our kids were decked out in glow stick necklaces,
headbands, bracelets, ankle braclets and more---they looked really cool!
What fun that was!
Leslie:-)
_____
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Amy Bowers
Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2006 2:21 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [unschoolingbasics] night swims
Wow! Thanks for the great story. Glowstick baths are fun too! Although, not
as cool I bet as the pool!!
Amy
On 7/1/06, Melissa <autismhelp@cox. <mailto:autismhelp%40cox.net> net>
wrote:
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Ohio or not---but they are a large craft store, like Michaels) they have the
cases of 100 glow sticks for $7.00 or you can get the extra long ones, 6 to
a pack for $1.00. I stocked up on like $15 of them and took them to the
fireworks. When the guys came around with the $6.00 glowstick necklaces and
the kids started begging, I pulled out our 150 glowsticks that I got for the
price of 2 1/2 at the fireworks and said, HAVE FUN!!! Some kids came by
and asked where we got so many and we gave them some, too. Walking back the
1/2 mile to the car, our kids were decked out in glow stick necklaces,
headbands, bracelets, ankle braclets and more---they looked really cool!
What fun that was!
Leslie:-)
_____
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Amy Bowers
Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2006 2:21 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [unschoolingbasics] night swims
Wow! Thanks for the great story. Glowstick baths are fun too! Although, not
as cool I bet as the pool!!
Amy
On 7/1/06, Melissa <autismhelp@cox. <mailto:autismhelp%40cox.net> net>
wrote:
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> Yesterday we headed to the dollar store, Breanna was needing
> something so we picked up some McD's french fries and went shopping.
> She picked out some coloring books, but suddenly I remembered
> something I read online here, (and I'm crossposting because I know it
> was one of these groups, but don't recall which, and plus it's so
> cool that maybe someone else could try it). So I picked up a CASE of
> the glowsticks. It was maybe $10 altogether.
>
> We came home, grilled out, sat out and played cards (FLUXX and
> WaterWorks) for a while, and after everyone was ready to transition,
> I suggested maybe it would feel good to swim (honestly, 100 degrees
> today and too hot to swim in the afternoon! 80 degrees at ten pm last
> night, and it felt wonderful!) It's just odd enough, because usually
> I'm hesitant to get them swimming so late, cranky neighbors, hard to
> see, I'm exhausted....So while they jumped in, I ran inside, got my
> swimsuit and opened up all those glow sticks. In the pool, I cracked
> them all open and started quietly distributing them around the pool.
> THe girls were THRILLED. We had so much fun swimming around diving
> for sticks. The girls experimented with placing them in different
> areas and distribution, and we all agreed that we need to have a
> party and invite everyone over to swim late at night.
>
> It was so beautiful to see their happiness and contentment shining in
> pool late at night. The soft glow through the water was enough to
> light their faces, and they were happy to be out and playing games
> with dad and mom. We floated in the noodle chairs and watched
> lightening bugs. We counted stars and adopted some as our own. We all
> gathered around Avari in her baby floatie and laughed as she splashed
> her way around to try and get the floating glow sticks. Rachel
> learned to dive under water so she could catch as many as Emily was
> getting.
>
> I took the big plunge with unschooling, and I'm still finding little
> things I didn't realize I was ruining for everyone. We stayed up
> swimming until midnight. The little ones got out on their own and
> climbed into bed as they got tired. i was surprised to come in and
> see them down. Josh had stayed inside to play video games, and he
> helped settle Dan into bed with kisses and storytime. :-) He's so
> helpful...
>
> Anyway, I might blog it later, I'm still tired and maybe not
> verbalizing well how cool it was. Even if you have a wading pool, it
> would be cool. We were also talking about how it would be fun to use
> the necklace length ones and tape them onto our homemade water park....
> Melissa
> Mom to Josh (11), Breanna (8), Emily (7), Rachel (6), Sam (4), Dan
> (2), and Avari Rose
>
> share our lives at
> http://360.yahoo <http://360.yahoo.com/multimomma> com/multimomma
>
>
>
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