Family Fun Month?

What a weird thing to have as a "month celebration!" Shouldn't every month (ideally) be Family Fun Month?

But honestly, that's NOT the first thing I thought of when I read that August was Family Fun Month... I'm sitting here on the couch, watching m two-year-old torment my 7-month-old, and she's enjoying every moment of it. I had to take a car away from him because he kept hitting her with it. I am continually having to tell him to giver her her pacifier back. And I've got to keep my eyes on them to make sure she's not going to be hurt by whatever new thing he can come up with. But somehow, through it all, she's all smiles. I guess it's about having someone's undivided attention. (And there goes one of her socks - by his hand, not hers.)

Isn't that a big part of having fun as a family though? Really spending time together? Paying attention to each other? (And yet, as I type that, I think I would pay someone to spend time with my kids so I could have a break. I just had to pry a loan chocolate chip out of my two-year-old's fingers that he found on the floor. We're fighting the battle of "you DON'T eat stuff off the floor - I don't care how yummy it is!")

We just recently had a BIG weekend of spending time together as we started off the long weekend with a trip to a local water park. It was a big hit with everyone, and my son keeps asking to go back. AND, it was some serious "family time" since it was my family, my sister's family, and the grandparents! However, after the pool was a playground where my son was injured coming down a slide. Long story short, since it was the weekend, we couldn't get in to see a doctor to get a diagnosis, and so we spent the weekend keeping him "quiet" and off of his foot. LOTS of together time!

Now that we've seen three doctors and he has a partial cast on his right ankle, I have the feeling that the next few weeks are going to be abundant in "together time," although I can't help but wonder at the end of it all if I won't be begging for a break from all the extra time together by the time it's done!

Anyway, I digress... Family Fun Month. I suppose I still have plenty of ways to celebrate that idea this month. We're taking a trip to see family this weekend, to celebrate my husband's grandmother's 80th birthday and while we're there, we'll see lots of family we haven't seen in a while. Add to that the fact that all but two of that side of the family haven't even met our daughter yet - that should be some family fun!

Then, in two weeks, we go back to get our son's cast off, and I know that should be fun! (In one way or another! HA! If you could only have been there with us to see how it went...) And of course there's the return to school... although my kids aren't affected by it, it does mean that places we usually go during the day won't be as crazy, so yay for us! (For example, going to Chick-fil-a or Burger King for lunch and having big kids run over my toddler in the play zone - not a problem with school back in! Sorry, maybe that's not nice...)

So, Family Fun, here we come!

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