One on One with the Kids

For parents who know all to well how hard it can be to juggle work, house, and parenthood, getting one-on-one time with the kids is equally important, but unfortunately hard to do at times. Life gets busy and we forget to do these things. We try to make a conscience effort of it, but just don't do it enough! Wish we could......

However, the last couple of weeks we have been able to get the one-on-one time with each of the kids. Two weeks ago, Stacey and I took Jack to the Baltimore Orioles - Boston Red Sox game. We picked him up early from camp, dropped the girls off with Pops & Gigi, met Stacey in F'burg and headed up to Baltimore. We had a great time eating way too much ball park food and watching the game. Unfortunately, the Red Sox lost, but we had a good time anyway.

Last week, Stacey and Kristin arranged a play date and took Lauren and the Kainu girls to Busch Gardens for the day. Lauren had a wondeful time with all the rides and spending quality time with her friend, Mikayla.

Yesterday, Stacey surprised Caroline with tickets to see Miranda Cosgrove (iCarly) in concert down at Busch Gardens. She was ecstatic!! After we all woke up and got ourselves ready for the day, the girls headed out to spend the day at Busch Gardens before the concert. When Stacey was at Busch Gardens with Kristin, she found out that iCarly was going to be doing a concert. We decided it would make for a great surprise for Caroline, who absolutely loves the show. Caroline had a great time and really enjoyed the concert.

It's definitely moments like this we treasure with the kids. Hopefully we can continue to try to do these one-on-one days with the kids. Now it's my turn to do something individually with the girls, since Stacey had her "days" with them. It's just as important having Father - Daughter time too as it is for having those Mother - Son times.