Saturday

Saturday mornings before kids were always sleep in days. We don't get to do that much anymore. :) Nowadays we begin Saturdays early with hard boiled eggs and quick bread (pumpkin today!) for breakfast. Gives us a break from granola. :)

Then we usually try to do something productive like wash the car... but since our car is parked half a mile from our house at the moment, we opted to cut the little boys' hair today. :) Brant takes the two older boys to the barber and then to get a donut. I cut Ezra's hair here at home... it's very traumatic and usually requires a couple touch ups in the following days when he's calm and not screaming. :)

But mainly Saturdays are known as "Pool Day." As early as we can get it together we go to the pool here in town. It's usually really quiet in the mornings - people usually come in the afternoons so we're usually the only ones there and it's really nice and relaxing. The pool is totally NOT made for kids - it's over 3 feet deep at its shallowest, but Elijah has learned to swim in the last six months and we have lots of floaties, so it works. :) We don't have any other options. :)



We always take a picnic lunch and stay til about 1 or 1:30. We shower the boys at the pool so we can put them right down for naps when we get home.


Saturday night is "Movie Night." We don't let the kids watch a lot of TV... well, let me rephrase that.... we don't have TV channels... so they don't watch a lot of movies. :) But we always do a movie on Saturday nights... the kids LOVE it. We only watch "Family" movies... which usually means some full length Disney movie like "Cars" or "Nemo" ...I can't handle "Thomas" or "Bob the Builder" for movie night. :) And we always do popcorn and smoothies for dinner.... we used to order pizza but popcorn's cheaper. :) Brant makes the smoothies; he makes them really nice and thick and they taste like Jamba Juice, but healthier. :) He uses two whole pineapples (that Helen has already cut and frozen) and about 6-7 bananas (they are smaller than what you get in the States) and then about half a liter of passion fruit juice. (You can also use mango juice, but the passion fruit is more tart.) That's it; we don't add any sugar or yogurt or anything - just fruit and pure fruit juice - it makes a full blender of thick smoothie so we all get a lot. Occasionally we will get berries from some of the mountain areas and we'll throw those in - they make the smoothies nice and purple, but don't really add a lot of flavor. :) I always make the popcorn - I use a "Whirly Pop" hand crank- stove top popcorn popper that we got for Christmas and it is SO nice! Then I drizzle the popcorn with olive oil and this all natural popcorn seasoning that we bring over from the States by the pound. :) The boys think it's great that they get to eat popcorn for dinner. :) Ezra always cries when his smoothie runs out.