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Video: Our Year in Review
Our yearly family recap video is complete (thanks to Matt!). This video captures what our life feels like about 80% of the time. The other 20% of the time, parenting feels really hard and not much fun–just being honest!———
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15 Minutes of TV a Week
We’ve always tried to be intentional about reducing Henry’s screen time. A while back, we weren’t letting him watch any on the weekdays but then we were letting him watch shows for about 45-60 minutes while Tate slept on the weekends.Then it started to feel like too much. I dreaded the thought of trying to pull back his screen time (I envisioned massive fits), but I reminded myself, “You’re the parent. If you think it’s not good for him to watch so much TV, then you should institute a new limit.” And so we did. Now we do only one 15-minute show on Saturday or Sunday. And it feels… Read More -
Holiday Traditions (and Reducing Holiday Stress)
The Christmas spirit is alive and kicking at the Cotner-Bradford residence!The Friday after Thanksgiving, we drove out to a Christmas tree farm in a small rural town to cut down our Christmas tree. The boys have been eagerly anticipating the experience for about a month. Tate was thrilled to ride on a tractor out into the field. We came home with a 9.5-foot tree (they always look smaller in the field than they do at home…).We got the ornaments down from the storage area and started hanging them on the tree. As I had hoped, it was so fun to look at all the ornaments we had collected… Read More
