They just keep growing...

What a full year this has been so far and its just June!  I've been enjoying my time "off" with my kids and learning their routines.  I am sometimes surprised at how much I missed while I was in school.

My oldest is doing great.  She learned the real meaning of hustle as a few of her grades dropped during the spring semester, which is usually a hard time for students as we march toward summer.  She got it together and finished with a GPA higher than 3.5 and perfect attendance. 

She is glad to be done with school and is trying not to think too far ahead to high school.  Hard to believe how quickly the time has flown.

My youngest successfully completed kindergarten will start soccer this fall.  He is such a bundle of energy.  We will need to work on his competitiveness.  He hates to lose and is quick to call someone a "cheater" if he is on the losing end.  Good sportsmanship is important and he must learn it now before he gets stuck in his ways.

So now we're planning out our summer and what we want to do before their back to school.  I most definitely will not let them waste away in front of the television.  There will be reading and assignments to make sure they don't forget everything they learned and keep them engaged for the new school year!

The Reset Button

You spend hours, invest strategy and research tricks and tips to see it vanish in the blink of an eye.

I hadn't played the game in a while, school stuff.  So it was nice to sit down and put it in and relive a few fun and sometimes challenging moments.  This particular game, Lego Indiana Jones 2, had been particularly hard.  I don't think I mastered the darn thing until I was half way through it. 

Anyway I put the disk in and wait.  Still no reason to believe anything is wrong as John Williams' famous song plays and draws the attention of my children.  We click start and load game and to all our shock 0% shows up.

Thinking I might have accidentally selected New Game, I log out and restart.  This time I make sure I select Load Game and again I as greeted with goose eggs all the way across.  Hmmm, how did this happen?

Did someone mistakenly hit the reset button instead of the eject button?  Was there some type of malfunction on the Wii?  Had I had one of my elaborate dreams where I "think" I'm experiencing everything.

My son, with a gleam in his eye, offered his services to help me get my levels back.  That was on Friday.  Yesterday, I was notified that all my work on Lego Batman Nintendo DSi was gone.  Again I was given the offer of assistance to help me get my levels back.

Seems my son has found a creative way to get me to play games with me.  I'll be having a conversation with him telling him all he has to do is ask and not push the reset button.  I will always have time for him.