Its all in the dough #Ordinarymoments #magicmoments

The mad and crazy rush of christmas is upon us. It is the day before christmas eve. Or christmas Steve as we have heard our little ones say before. Heh! a day to celebrate all Steves in a christmassy way. So apartyofseven is home from school. That means a LOT of noise and a lot of people. The kids are generally happy to play together, although it isnt always harmonious. 🙂 There isnt a lot of time for quality time. We try and have some moments of quality family time and i actually think that the festivities sort of lend themselves to that happening. But it is harder to seek out time with either just one person or by yourself! Thats when it is time for a trip to the loo!!

But spending time with just one of my kids is rare but during term time i am given that opportunity…and one thing that she likes to do is play dough. I like play dough, it has a really therapeutic quality to it. Its also fairly universal and even my older kids will sidle up and have a little go at forming something out of the moulding clay. They almost can’t help themselves!

This time my daughter was deteremined to have a go at making some cake looking play dough. She likes to focus on food group! that and making endless sausage shaped play dough through the hole in the bar-b-q type thing that came in an old set ages ago. This day was one of the first that she had actually asked me to put her bobble in her hair. it didnt last long, she took it out soon after. But it was cute while it lastest!

In such a large family i think it is important to try and make small bits of quality time for each person. it can be really hard and sometimes what they want to do fills me with dread BUT i really believe that they get benefit from it. 🙂

Pretty important to get quality time for mama too!!