Parenting : Kids Want Your Time -- Part 2

As you have probably read in my earlier posts "Kids Want Your Time" I have really been trying to spend time with each of my 6 children.  Doing this is hard because of what is going on at the house however taking a pause never hurts!

Last night was Joshua's turn to have his special time.  At first I was thinking maybe an hour or so but it turned into 2 hours which was a perfect time spent.  We left at 6:30pm and my goal was to be back at 8:30pm.  He decided to go Geocaching.  We first stopped at Dutch Brothers and got us a large Blueberry pomegranate smoothie! Yummy!!!

We decided to head to Jacksonville which is 5 minutes from the house.  We tried to find two caches that were by the Chamber of Commerce. We looked and looked and decided that we were spending two much time on these catches so we decided to move on to another one. There are several in Jacksonville so we just walked to our next one. Keep in mind we are very new so it needs to be pretty simple -- a one star cache. The hint said "It is not in the corral". We looked for about 10 minutes. I couldn't believe that we actually found one!!! Joshua was looking though the can and decided to take the pad and pen.  Here is Joshua with his Cache.

Joshua's First Find!!!

Things Inside

We still had about an hour left before I thought we should head home.  It was starting to get dark but we continued on our way.  This next find was near the museum.  I was kind of puzzled because there were no bushes to hide something in but we found it!  It was tucked up under a pole in a magnetic key holder. I was so excited when I felt up under the pole. I tried to keep my excitement under control but I shouted "Joshua -- I found it!! Maybe the whole town of Jacksonville heard me!! This one required you to sign your name and put the date you found it. As you can see the flashlight was on.  This was so much fun!!

Our Second Find For The Night

If you are not familiar with it -- look it up.  It is so much fun for all ages!! It is a treasure hunt throughout the country.  In your city there are several treasures.  The levels of hunting are easy, intermediate and difficult. You will need a smart phone to be successful. Usually the more difficult the smaller the catch is. Usually -- you open the container.  It has several treasures in there.  You take one and leave one for someone else.  There should also be a notebook and a pen in there to sign your name and date you found it.

Once we got back to the car it dawned on me the notebook and pen that Joshua took from the first cache we found that we needed to check that quick!! I told him to open it.  Sure enough that was the notebook that people write their name in and the date!! I said we were beginners!!! I told him we need to return it now!! Oh My! I can't believe we almost took that.  The earliest date found on this catch was 2009.  So we made a quick trip back to our first catch spot and put that back in the can and Joshua chose a pin that said "Geocaching Block Party!".  He put in a string of different color paint.

I am looking forward to next week! My other son wants to go Geocaching on his time!