Last year at one of our leadership meetings at my work, I went through a workshop called "The Energy Project." It was basically around creating balance in your life to fully optimize your energy, etc. It's the basics, like getting solid sleep, exercise, etc. Everyone took a survey to see what their "number" was and I was a 13, not bad, but the lower the number the better. Anyway... Back to my normal topic... Well today, we took the girls to Declan's learn to skate class. We took them once before and it wasn't so bad because there are two hallways with dead ends so they can't get far. Well a few months later now and they are FAST! And there are stairs everywhere... I know they were there before but I didn't notice it as much. At least we planned ahead and Em agreed to come with us to help while Andy was on the ice with Declan. Well today, I got a new meaning of The Energy Project :-) Meaning how fast the girls zap me! Aven was the ring leader and she wanted nothing to do with keeping still or staying in the guarded hallway. Then Bria followed her. Then Stevie... It was insane to say the least and there was a moment when I didn't think we were going to make it... There was one point where I was following Bria and Aven and I swear they looked at each other laughed and ran opposite directions. Aven to one set of stairs and Bria to the other. Em in the meantime was hysterically laughing, because it was pretty funny. We got them still for a bit by going into my bag of tricks and finding some coloring activities. Then we occupied them for about 20 minutes with a game called "running back and forth from mommy and Aunt Em and giving us hugs." It. was. fun. But I'm thinking we might just continue with our quite Saturday mornings at home :-)
Then we came home and Stevie got ahold of the TV remote and purchased a $18 movie... At first I thought it was a porn movie, but thankfully it wasn't and it's actually a movie that Andy wanted to watch - win win, but I would have preferred she rented it versus bought it. Never a dull moment :-)
Before our big adventure, I took a few pictures of the kiddos (mostly because they had actual clothes on today versus our normal stay at home attire :-))
Declan, Aven (telling me something I'm sure) and Stevie (with her oven mitt on - which she took to the skating rink as well)
L to R: Bria, Declan, Stevie & Aven
Declan and Bria having a serious chat...
Sweet Stevie...
Declan and his favorite...
Aven wanted to sit on Declan's lap, Stevie didn't understand why :-)
At least Declan was having fun...
This would have been great, if we could see Declan (L to R: Aven, Stevie & Bria)
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