Momma’s Coffee Break
April 11, 2008 by Eliza Ferree
Filed under Mommy Extras
I’d like to try something new here, it’s known as Open Chat, or as others call it Casual Friday. Basically bloggers come together and chat about their lives, reviews, or answer questions if there is a theme. I first saw this done over at CasualKeystrokes, but Char is no longer doing it and I’ve asked her if it would be okay to start it up at Babylune.
So, on the topic of babies, how do you make sure you spend quality time with your child. It doesn’t matter if you are a working mom/dad or a at home mom/dad. I just want to know how you have done it. For instance, at dinner we go around the table and talk about out day, at night I tuck them in and read a story to them. Of course there is time between that but this is the time where I hear about what they’ve done. As for my youngest, feeding time is one of those times where I talk with him, plus I read to him and play games with him and his sister. We have Friday Movie nights and Saturday is game day. What do you do?
Remember you can answer the question or chat amongst yourselves. Any good movies out there?
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Good morning! Spending quality time with each of the kids is a challenge, but I seem to be able to get it done. I drive my son back and forth to school each day, so we get lots of time to talk then. I get to spend time with the girls individually on a daily basis at different times.
My kids are still little, and nap at different times. This is when I take time for them individually. We read books, sing, and just play.
The Boy and I talk over lunch after I get him from school. In the afternoons, we do workbook together, and read. Sometimes we play a game (once a week it’s a video game) together. As a family, we have dinner together when my husband gets home. We talk to each other and have a bedtime routine that includes the whole family.
And during the summer, we travel all over to visit my family and my husband’s family.
Char- Glad to hear you’ve figured it out with each child. For me I really want more time with two of them, ya know the two that go to school. Just alone time I’d say BalletGirl (age 7) tries getting up earlier than the rest so we can sit and chat. Her brother, Soccerboy (age11) gets to stay up an hour later so that’s his time.
Ava- I hear ya on the different bedtimes, my youngest (1 year) takes two to three naps, this means his sister (4year) and I get lots of time for with each other. Normally we watch a show together, might play together (she’s picky) and do our homeschooling as she calls it.
Miranda- This sounds very much like what we do. I always loved it when BabyGirl (she’s 4) would come home after lunch and tell me all about what she did. We would even sneak to the gas station down the street and grab an ice cream for the rest of the trip. Shhh, older siblings don’t know. Where have you gone on your trips?
Well, my husband’s family lives near Albany, NY, so we go there every year. My family lives in Idaho. So we go there. And we like the national parks and try to go to at least one every year. Really, most of our family trips are connected to…seeing more family!
sounds like fun though, especially to those National Parks. I remember as a child we went every year and we enjoyed the camps for kids they’d have at some. The one thing I couldn’t stand was touching and holding the snakes, I passed on that one. I hope we get to do some exploring this summer, so far we would only visit family if we lived near them. In the military we got station on the opposite side of the states so didn’t see much of one another. Instead the kids got to learn all about the places near us, which I think was educational and some lasting memories. Our trips right now are for sights, however if we were ever closer to family I can see it the other way around.
I have 3 kids and I’m a single parent. I drive my middle daughter to school in the morning and after school. We talk both ways – about 15 minutes each trip. She’s in high school, so she likes her mom time in small doses. Sarah, my youngest, is with me a lot of the time. We like to walk to school together, which we can do because she starts after I get back from taking her older sister. My oldest child, Max, has special needs – he can’t go to me, he needs me to come to him. I hold him in my lap at mealtimes and then we sit that way, like I’m his chair, for an hour after the evening meal, watching TV.
We take a summer vacation for extra time. In our “every day” life, I take my son to parks and play outside together at least once a week. Daily, we eat and play together. Also, I involve him (15 months) in our household chores– dishes, laundry, etc, even if it means that he rides in the basket atop the clothes or puts the lids in the drawer. Right now it is just the two of us, so it works out well. I don’t have family around, and well… I let a lot of other things slide these days.
I’m glad to see you starting this here. I’ve always enjoyed Casual Friday:)
We have game night every Friday night. We sit down and play a game together, and sometimes we watch a movie.
I love to see movies in the movie theater, especially on opening weekend. Whenever a family movie is premiering we have movie day and splurge for movie tickets and popcorn.
Linette- what movies have you seen lately?
I’ve recently seen: Horton hears a Who, August Rush, Enchanted, Nancy Drew and a few others but those were the ones I really enjoyed.
We saw Horton Hears a Who twice (opening weekend and spring break), Alvin and the Chipmunks was really cute (now we have the DVD), and we saw Spiderwick Chronicles a few weeks ago.
I love children’s movies, I told my son he’ll still have to go with me when he’s 20. He agrees right now, but we’ll see later…
Oh I really liked Spiderwick but will have to rent it soon because I missed the very ending when the baby decided he no longer wanted to stay asleep. I was wondering about Alvin, will have to rent it now. I did like Horton, a lot, but could’ve done without the jabs at homeschooling.
Have you seen Daddy Day Camp? I want to see that new Momma one coming out. Don’t think it is really for kids though.
I saw Daddy Day Camp. I think I saw the second one too, but I don’t remember it much. I don’t think it was very good.
Hello.
They wake up at different times in the morning and have different nap times or the big guy is at preschool. So we get our special time then. One likes to play by himself and the other likes to be with you so it’s easier to swap and go see the other for a little while……don’t know how it’ll work with No.3? Generally, they both like to help with everyday tasks.
We have playdough in the kitchen whilst I make dinner. Sometimes they help with the food and sometimes I help with the playdough.. Some how it just works out.