Some Semblance of Success...

We have achieved a small measure of success this past weekend. Everyone in our home is adjusting to big changes. Some of us have moved, some of us have new house-mates. Some of us don't get as much time with our parents. Some of us have to eat different food than we are used to. Some of us don't get to exercise as much as we'd like. There are lots of changes and, all in all, we are slowly getting there. I don't think I can tell you exactly where "there" is, but I think I will know it when I see it.

We have the Wii and the weekend before last we broke it out for the first time since the wedding. It was total chaos, contention and arguing. The kids had some fun but there was way more fighting than frivolity. This most recent weekend, we tried a new strategy. We broke them up into teams, we created a chart so that teams and "first-player" would rotate. And you know what, the strangest thing happened... It actually worked.

Playing the Wii was fun. There was a little bickering but mostly laughing, cheers and encouragement. Score one for the parents!!!