We did it! we got the kids into a afterschool care program. It's in the neighborhood and they went there for day school when they were three. They remember and the school was very excited to have the triplets back. It's a cool program, they get picked up by the day care and taken to the location, they get inside and get a snack. Then they get to go do their home work and after have options of fun and games to do, from a gym to video games. They are pretty happy about it.
Yesterday was the kids first day and from the way they tell it they just roamed the halls lord of the flies style taking time to visit their old teacher and the what not. I don't believe that they were supposed to do that but my kids are very very inderpendent. Case in point only two of the kids did their homework while the other spent the majority of time in the gym. And because of this we parents still had to sit and do homework with one of the kids.
The children only had one complaint from yesterday. The snack, by God the snack. Over the past two years the children have free reign of the pantry and could choose their snacks. "within reason," they could choose fruit or chips or poptarts etc, etc. They had gotten into the habit of eating a decent sized snack and a juice box or Gatorade and they have been happy. Yesterday they came home and were outraged at their snack. They got water with one cookie, and four pretzels. My lord the horror. They counted and were quick to detail the misery of their confinement. Aside from all the play and friends they made, the snack situation is a human rights issue reminiscent of the Gulag Archipelago.
We as a family are getting all of our ducks in a row from when I get a job.
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