With the Kids Wednesday #1 (Putty Buddies)

I made a note in my blog goals this year, that I would have "With the Kids Wednesday".  

I wanted to include my kids in more of the renovation that I do around here.

Reasons for this:

1.) I tend to be a "work alone" sort of person...problem is, with home schooling, a little dietetic work, and constant house renovation (and now blogging), I'm ALWAYS working. 

These cuties won't live with me long. Most of my life and theirs, we will live apart (sort of sad) and I want them to remember that during this time, my life was about them, and that we did fun stuff together...and boring stuff....ok, just spent time together!

2.) I want them to learn renovation skills!

because.....

3.) I have 5 of these little buggers and I would like their help! 

So our first 

With The Kids Wednesday

included the 3 oldest kids helping me putty my bedroom base boards (not alot of fun things to post about putting walls, unless there are cute kids involved). 

To not let things get out of control, I used one kid at a time. I had them each take one wall with me. I quickly had them go wash their hands afterwards, and reminded them (about 

 10 times) not to touch anything on there way to the bathroom.

This wall is basically finished, but you can see that we puttied in between the quarter round and baseboard I had just put up, and in any space between the wall and the baseboard. 

This went really well. It took each kid about 15 minutes, and we got to talk one on one about all sorts of things, (music, someone that cheated in a game at Sunday school, football, etc.).

.....and the talk was one on one (which is rare in this house of 5 kids).

My Challenge: This week lets include our kids!

--Katie

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