December 22, 2013

It's Christmas break.  Bob and I have been working together a lot better with the kids.  It's so great. We're going to go see the therapist to talk about Aaron in a few weeks.  But for Christmas break we offered Danny and Aaron a reward.  If they can not fight, or solve their own fights quietly for the whole 2 weeks, we'll buy them another xbox controller.  Danny is getting an xbox for Christmas and it only comes with one controller. So we think it'll be a really good motivation.  They already fought once and Aaron went ballistic.  I think he just doesn't have the confidence.  When he thinks he will fail then he just lets himself fail big.  At least I think that's what's going on because I gave him a big pep talk after he freaked out and told him I know he can do it and Danny will help remind him and now he's doing great.  I really hope they can succeed with this so it can build his confidence a little.  Bob is saying prayers with Aaron now too.  So between the 2 of us we are more consistent. I think it will really help too.

Today I made homemade eggnog to drink during a family game night tonight.  If it's good maybe we'll make it a tradition.  But it'll have to be pretty good because it took an hour to make.  We went to the chocolate factory on Friday night.  That is always so fun.

I put some effort into researching a club basketball league for Danny.  He really loves basketball and is pretty good.  So I thought he'd for sure want to take it to the next level.  That's what I always wanted with dancing. I got a scout to come watch him play his game yesterday.  He said Danny has potential, but he's kind of rough.  But he thinks he can get Danny on a team.  I told Danny about it and he didn't like hearing that his skills were rough.  And he said he likes being in the NJB league where he can be one of the best ones.  Who knows.

The kids are dying for Christmas to be here.  They count their presents and talk about it constantly.  This will be a big Christmas this year.  We blew our budget by a couple hundred even after each of the kids paid $100 toward their gift.  It was so hard to just give them their one big gift and nothing else.  But they are getting lots of socks and underwear filler gifts this year too.