I don't remember who said it, but at one of the last
general conferences, someone cautioned not to replace quantity of time with your children with quality time. Both are important. What a great reminder. This life is all about family and kids need to know you are there for them in even the small day-to-day activities.
Giving my time to the kids is one of the best and easiest ways for them to feel that I love them. It's so easy for me to get annoyed by their antics or get caught up in what I want to get done that I push their need for my attention to the end of the priority list. I'm not always able to drop everything to go look at the 256th spaceship missile bomb jedi that Noah created out of Duplos. BUT. Every now and then I should. Whenever I can, I should.
Now for quality, you're in luck, because we just went to Great Wolf
Lodge and we got some awesome pictures! Mark had a spontaneous week of
vacation that we had to take this week. We hurried and planned an
awesome trip to the Ozarks (12 hour drive one way) where my
cousin-friend (she's my cousin, but I always refer to her as my friend)
lives. She has 3 girls all about my kids' ages. We were going to visit
her for a couple days, check out some bat caves, hike every where, stay
in a real treehouse. But then we woke up and realized it wasn't going
to work (money, 12+ hours in a car!!!, logistics, etc) (and good thing
we didn't go because they all got sick, bummer!). So we went to The
Lodge. Next year when we are closer, we are going to the Ozarks. We
totally can't wait, Rachel!
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| Noah loved the slides. Maren went down this slide a couple times as well and then decided she would never go down it again! |
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| the bucket fills up and then dumps 1,000 gallons of water every 5 minutes |
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| Mark and Noah (orange life jacket) |
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| Mark with Maren and Noah |
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| Noah and I |
1 comment:
Your Great Wolf Lodge and ours seem to be layed out identically. Was there a kiddie pool area, a wave pool, and a couple (or 1?) other slides that weren't pictured? The biggest difference I can see is that your kids are in the water, whereas ours think it must be some toxic chemical everyone is splashing around.
Looks like you hade a grand time!
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