Right Now Challenge - Week 3

Please go to One Happy Mama's blog to read more about the  Right Now Challenge.

• Grayden asked me what number has a 4 and a 0 with a 1 in the middle. Four hundred ten!
• As he was getting strawberries from the fridge Grayden informed us that we have Fred the caterpillar who lives in our fridge. He always takes bites out of our strawberries.
• Connor brought home his grade 5 indoor shoes from school. I don't think he even wore them, they look brand new. Now they are too small for him - they fit me perfectly. Yay for new shoes for me and boo hoo my oldest has feet that are bigger than mine.
• Our neighbour asked Grayden how his day was and he replied, "Good as pie." I guess pie IS good.
• Darien gives me goose bumps when he says, "Hey mom, watch this!" The things that child gets up to boggles my mind and scares me.
• Swimming in the river on Canada Day, hot weather, sunscreen, laughs and giggles.

Right Now Challenge - Week 2

Please go to One Happy Mama's blog to read more about the Right Now Challenge.

• Darien asked me how long he was playing outside after dinner. When I told him 1 hour he asked me if that was "with tax".
• Cleaning Darien's room took an entire day. How can a 7 year old make such a mess and be a pack rat to the highest level?
• Today is Grayden's last day of preschool. Next up graduation and then kindergarten. Having a bit of a hard time with my baby growing up.
• Proud of myself (and Grayden too), we made it through with no tears. It was a very touching morning the preschool teacher put together for us. We will miss her!
• After 11 years of being a mom to boys it has finally happened - they broke a window. It was my youngest. When asked how it happened he told us he was trying to throw rocks onto the roof of the garage and missed.

Right Now Challenge - Week 1

As I was on a blog exploration, I discovered the One Happy Mama blog. Kristina is cheerful and upbeat so I stayed awhile and read through some posts. She is on the Creative Team for Project Life and as that is my  new favourite creative outlet she earned some more brownie points from me.

What really got me though was this post about her Right Now Challenge.

In Kristina's words, this is what the challenge is all about (or you can go here to read her first post about it):

During the week, jot down little tidbits about anything going on in your life. It could be your child’s (or children’s) favorite toy, food, song, saying, etc. It could be something funny someone said. It could be some personal goals that you set for yourself or accomplished. It could be places you went. Things you did. Just those little mundane facts about your week that make up your everyday life.

You can blog about them to hold yourself accountable, too! If you do, come back here to my posts and leave me a comment with a link to YOUR list! You don’t have to blog about them – so don’t feel obligated at all! Just jotting them down is enough, but if you’d like to share then please do!

I can even email you the above graphic if you’d like and you can link back to my blog here so that it can encourage others to jot down their life “right now!”

I plan on making some freebie cute little Project Life cards, too for this little challenge, so be on the lookout for those!

The first Right Now Challenge is going to take place next Friday, October 5th. So be sure to take some notes about your week and then check out my blog post next week!

 Without further ado, my first list:

• Quiet - the birds, me and a cup of coffee (June 16)
• Grayden informed me that his toys are all played out and the only thing for him to do is play on the computer (June 17)
• Lots of laughs with Connor while playing games on his iPad.
• Darien wrote a cheque to himself for $10,000. He is really upset with me that he can't cash it.
• Incredibly frustrated (and a wee bit proud) at how head-strong Darien is. He knows what he wants and isn't easily swayed (June 18)
• Grateful my husband regularly indulges my dark mint chocolate obsession (June 19)
• Grayden believes that when his older brothers act out we should just "put them in the garbage" (June 20)