The Gilsons: Tired of nagging your kids in the mornings?

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Tired of nagging your kids in the mornings?

The kids and I came up with this little ditty to help ease the morning routine. How can you argue the rules put to a poem?

Get up, get dressed

Make your bed.

Check your chores,

Then you'll be fed.

Brush your teeth,

Brush your hair.

Then we can go anywhere.

2 comments:

Kirsten and Jon said...: That's a good idea. You asked about my bread recipe. I went to www.everydayfoodstorage.net and used her recipe for wheat bread, I also like her french bread recipe. I got the map on my blog by adding a java script page element and on the google map page there is a link you can use to post your map to a web page. I just added the link to the new page element and wala! You have a map. You guys have more adventures that we do! Your life sounds so fun.; August 25, 2009 2:22 PM
jamiegilson said...: Just a side note. We are still sticking with this morning ditty so well that even Calvin fills in the blanks. If I say "Get up, get dressed" he continues "Make bed." Kids are so stinkin smart.; September 2, 2009 4:00 PM

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Kid funnies

--Alex said, "If I could touch the sky, I'd grab a star and hang it in my bedroom.

Calvin said, "If I could touch the sky, I'd grab a cloud and use if for my pillow.

Izzy said, "If I could touch the sky, I'd go to the Milky Way and sell milk.

--While boiling apples for making applesauce Calvin said, "Look at all the hot going up. ... I smell BBQ." Alex said, "No, that's applesauce."

--While cleaning the basement and seeing Calvin not participating I said, "Calvin, do you know how to pick everything in here up?" Calvin said, "NO, I don't have big hands. I only have 2 hands." All I could do was laugh.

--Izzy said, "When I'm bored, I squish people's heads at church."

--Alex said, "I really want to take swimming lessons. I already know how to drown."

--Calvin after using the little potty. "Mommy, come get Henry quick or he's going to snitch my pee."

Favorite Homeschooling Quotes

"Schoolhouses are made wrong. If they must be, they should be built in a woods pasture beside a stream, where you could wade, swim, and be comfortable in summer, and slide and skate in winter. The windows should be cut to the floor, and stand wide open, so the birds and butterflies could pass through. You ought to learn your geography by climbing a hill, walking through a valley, wading creeks, making islands in them, and promontories, capes, and peninsulas along the bank. You should do your arithmetic sitting under trees adding hickorynuts, subtracting walnuts, multiplying butternuts, and dividing hazelnuts. You could use apples for fractions, and tin cups for liquid measure. You could spell everything in sight and this would teach you the words that are really used in the world. Every single one of us could spell incompatibility, but I never heard father, or the judge, or even the Bishop, put it in a speech.

"If you simply can't have school that way, then you should be shut in black cells, deep under the ground, where you couldn't see, or hear a sound, and then if they'd give you a book and a candle and Miss Amelia, and her right-hand man, Mister Ruler, why you might learn something."--from Laddie; a true blue story by Gene Stratton-Porter