It seems I have been on a bit of a blogging hiatus. Partly because I pretty much have nothing going on and partly because I HAVE BEEN INCREDIBLY SICK! Like sick in bed, can't eat or drink anything for days type of sick. I am slowly healing, but now SADE IS SICK. Oh the humanity!
Anyway....Now that I have the complaining out of the way, onto miniature golf. The kids didn't have school on Monday, and Eric didn't have work, so we decided to do a bit of golfing. Although still on deaths door, I pulled myself together and went too.
First we did a little practice putting:
Sade had the swing of a maniac, so Eric stepped in and gave her a little lesson:
Now the course. Eric is pretty much good at everything, including mini golf.
Like in regular golf, I am inconsistent. Doing very well on one hole and then very unwell on the next.
I only made it through half of the 18 holes before I was overtaken by sickness and had to go sit in the car. I may or may not have thrown up in a garbage can.
As a sidenote: While laying in bed on Saturday the kids were periodically coming in to ask me things, like "Can we have a piece of candy?" Or...."Can we play the Wii?" At one point Jackson came in and asked if they could have chocolate chip cookies for lunch. I answered, "Yes." As he was leaving my room I heard him joyfully tell Megan and Sadie, "It's kind of nice when mom is sick because she says yes to everything!" And it's true. Saying yes doesn't require the explanation that a no does, so I did say yes to everything. It was a highlight to my sickness. The other highlight was that I got to miss Primary! Sad, but true.
Sadie. As I mentioned, her swing was a bit maniacal, but surprisingly accurate. She killed it! Beating both Megan and Jackson on the first 9 holes. However the back 9 was a different story. It was super hot and everyone lost a little steam.
Jackson is a good little player and enjoyed himself the entire time:
Megan! Let's just say there was some (a lot) of complaining and general unhappiness going on.
But we all remember that being a pre-teen and a teenager is just plain hard!
It is sort of like having a toddler all over again. They have all of these emotions that they can't regulate, they want independence (I can do it myself!) and they are a bit self-centered. But aren't we all.
First we did a little practice putting:
Sade had the swing of a maniac, so Eric stepped in and gave her a little lesson:
Now the course. Eric is pretty much good at everything, including mini golf.
Like in regular golf, I am inconsistent. Doing very well on one hole and then very unwell on the next.
I only made it through half of the 18 holes before I was overtaken by sickness and had to go sit in the car. I may or may not have thrown up in a garbage can.
As a sidenote: While laying in bed on Saturday the kids were periodically coming in to ask me things, like "Can we have a piece of candy?" Or...."Can we play the Wii?" At one point Jackson came in and asked if they could have chocolate chip cookies for lunch. I answered, "Yes." As he was leaving my room I heard him joyfully tell Megan and Sadie, "It's kind of nice when mom is sick because she says yes to everything!" And it's true. Saying yes doesn't require the explanation that a no does, so I did say yes to everything. It was a highlight to my sickness. The other highlight was that I got to miss Primary! Sad, but true.
Sadie. As I mentioned, her swing was a bit maniacal, but surprisingly accurate. She killed it! Beating both Megan and Jackson on the first 9 holes. However the back 9 was a different story. It was super hot and everyone lost a little steam.
Jackson is a good little player and enjoyed himself the entire time:
Megan! Let's just say there was some (a lot) of complaining and general unhappiness going on.
But we all remember that being a pre-teen and a teenager is just plain hard!
It is sort of like having a toddler all over again. They have all of these emotions that they can't regulate, they want independence (I can do it myself!) and they are a bit self-centered. But aren't we all.
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3 comments:
I really should take the kids mini golfing! I haven't been in years! Although I think Oliver would be a nightmare!
I am impressed that you went while you were feeling so sick! I would have milked that one...especially with Eric home for the day!
Do I need to rub it in??? I AM RELEASED FROM PRIMARY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Watch me go to the new ward and get a Primary calling!!! I'll just expect it so I am not disappointed!
My philosophy is that the twos and threes prepare us for the tweens and teens!
I am so sorry about your sickness! Being sick is the worst with kids, the other day I tried to relax with a huge headache, I got 2 minutes of sleep on the couch until Hayden tried to stick something up my nose! You are quite a trooper to go mini golfing while so sick! I am so worried about Taylor turning into a teenager, I can't handle her as a 4 year old. Poor Megan, I remember those emotional teenager days and being dragged to horrible family activities. The horror...
I hope Sade feels better soon :)
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