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You Spin Me Right Round (Like A Record) – Dead or Alive (Flo-Rida – Right Round)
Petula Clark – Downtown (Emma Bunton’s cover)
London Bridge Is Falling Down (Fergie – London Bridges)

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Our first visit to the home or our son and his wife stands out in my mind as clearly as if it were yesterday. We traveled half way across the country to New Mexico to see them and their new home. Fine china and crystal adorned the dining room table. Everything was organized and in place. Our daughter-in-law prepared a gourmet meal most every night. The smell of freshly baked chocolate chip cookies daily filled the air. Cakes, pies and other sweet treats sat about for the taking. That was, of course, BC.

Somewhere between “I do” and the second child everything changed. Two working parents with one in pre-school and the other in diapers prove that while you can have it all you can’t have it all and be neat. The dining room table, once a proud and well-adorned centerpiece, now is primarily used to store mail, diapers and assorted toys. Just the essential equipment for a newborn takes up most of one room. We sleep in our RV figuring at least there we can find our underwear. This is, of course AC (after children).

I broke down and provided meager assistance by cleaning out their car since it was beginning to resemble the bedroom of a homeless person. We took out a load of clothes and dumped a wide variety of food items that had coagulated on the floorboard. I’m pretty certain a fungus of some kind was growing and the whole thing seemed hazardous to small children who put most everything in their mouths.

We keep the “kids” so our frazzled son and daughter-in-law can attend a movie. They seem ecstatic at the prospect. During down times my wife decides to help with organization by, among other things, attempting to pair up dozens of socks, many of them found behind the couch. For some reason our grandson used to throw his socks behind the couch and purchasing more seemed the lesser of two evils. We now have enough socks to warm the feet of every child in a six block radius.

There were no gourmet meals, though once we were brought a breakfast sandwich from Sonic. It was good. Of course soon enough we began to remember the energy required to do the simplest tasks with young children. You see we are WAC (way after children). People look at me funny as I carry the car seat containing our granddaughter inside restaurants. I’ve been tempted to ask whether they read about my wife, the fifty- something woman who gave birth.

It is quick meals at fast food restaurants so the oldest can play on the slide. It is week-end excursions to Wal-Mart for supplies. It is short vacations close to home in case of medical emergency. It is toy dinosaurs and strollers and car seats. It is paper plates and plastic cups. It is of course AC.

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a lots of funny animals. muchos animales chistosos. animais engraçados

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Most families are on a tight budget to start with and with the ever-weakening economy it is even truer. But what events and activities can you do with your kids that will not cost an arm and leg? As a matter of fact, the economy is so bad most families are not even taking a vacation but are opting to stay at home. Even if this is you, your family does not have to sit in the house looking at each other wishing they were all somewhere else.

It is time to get back to basics and participate in activities that are inexpensive and fun to do as a family. These simple life pleasures can bring a family back together and out of the rat race of life.

- Set rules.
First, set rules as to how much time the kids have to spend doing chores around the house. Do not make them feel as though they have become slave labor working them from dawn to dusk around the house. They may start to wish they had agreed to be sent to summer camp instead. You do want to set an example and teach your children to be responsible with tasks they should do each day such as helping with the laundry, preparing meals, taking out the trash and mowing the lawn, but leave plenty of fun time as well.

- Low cost activities.
Start to make a list of low cost or free activities your children and family can participate in. Get the kids involved by allowing each of them to come up with an idea of a fun low cost activity he/she wants to do. Make a plan to do one of the activities each day saving the more expensive ones for last. These could include such activities as going to the park, swimming at a lake or state park or going to a playground with the grand finale being a trip to the big water park.

- Daycations.
Encourage your children to think of activities they can do that are local or require little travel…somewhere that would be fun to go and spend the whole day like a local lake or state park. Most of these are free or only cost a few dollars for the day. Some include fishing, canoeing and swimming, which can be fun for the whole family. There may be camps that are run by schools or churches that can be very inexpensive that include arts and crafts, sports and other fun activities.

These are just a few ideas of fun activities for your children to stay busy and out of trouble for their summer vacation.

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