what my kids do in thier spare time

When schooling is done for the day and their chores are done for the day then comes spare time.
The kids have way more spare time than I of course.
I do wish that they had a bit more balance with the spare time and the chores. Right now its way more spare time than responsibilities. But as they get older then they can take on more responsibilities that is so important in their growth.

They get done with school at different times through out the day.
After school chores include,

• folding clothes
• dishes for Clayton (Nathan does supper ones)
• tidying up the living room
• putting away school things off the kitchen table
• i get them to help with supper preparations if its something they can do
• and any thing i happen to see needing doing

So on to their fun spare time things,

• playing in our woods
• coloring
• making puzzels
• playing in the sand box
• playing in the tree fort
• making a roller skating path through the woods (with boards)
• playing out door games
• vsiting Uncle who lives through the wooods ( or its more like driving him cracy)
• reading books
• building things

After supper all the boys help cleaing up the table. Nathan does dishes. Then they like to spend more time out side running around and playing tag and stuff.
Then its clean up time, and stories and Bible reading. Then tuck in bed and prayers.
Firday eveings we use to have as movie night, but i have been trying very hard to make it game night instead. And last Firday we did play games. I am hoping to push movie night to once a month or even more seldom than that if i can. I am not big on movies as you can see, even if they are good ones.
The kids have liked playing games on our commputer but i am trying very hard to cut that down big time as well. Its just snippets a day now! Yea!! I feel like they have better things to do than sit in front of the commputer playing a game. It wasn't bad games , but still. And I always remind my kids that I did not have all that when i was grwoing up. We had no T.V, no other way to watch movies, and no commputer. And we had a TON OF FUN!!!