Blanket Time!

I will start off by apologizing bc my posts are starting to be few and fffaaarrrrr between. We are indeed in a busy season right now and VBS starts this morning so we are buckling in and preparing for this crazy week. I will try to post more regularly after this week bc I have so many pics and things to share!

I frequently watch The Duggars and all of their 19 kids..for many reasons. The main reasons that I watch them is to see how their family functions with so many kids and so many chances for disasters. Kids didn't come with a handbook you know so we have to just watch other people and learn. They have a thing called "Blanket Time" where their kids have to set on their blanket and play with a toy or read for 30 minutes. She mainly uses this for the smaller kids while she is homeschooling other bigger kids. I had considered attempting this but it honestly was very intimidating and so I didn't do it. Then, my sister from another mister Sarah (who is one of those Moms that literally was born to be a Momma) told me that she did this with her kids. Anyway, she motivated me to at least start trying it little by little and it has been a success and such a wonderful thing! I have incorporated our Bible Time into Blanket Time. The boys each have thier Bibles and "read" through it and we talk about different stories and then they will usually play with a toy or eat a snack. We do not do this every afternoon but we do it several times a week. We are up to 15 minutes now which is amazing to me! I took these pics back a month or two ago (see jeans ;) but you can at least look at them as proof that my kids can sit still for 15 minutes!