Lynness: forgot to post this

The Olympics were a great incentive for my kids to get ready for bed on time: if they were brushed, dressed, washed, prayed, etc, then we would do family prayer and scripture and turn on the Olympics at 8pm and watch for 15 to 30 minutes before we banished them to their bedrooms and watched more ourselves.  (I'm glad they're over- we stayed up too late too often.)  After the Olympics I decided to keep this going, but with books.  Isaiah's bedtime is 8:15 on school nights, and Ruth used to be 1/2 hour earlier, but she was trying to give up naps, so we recently pushed it back.  Now that they're going to bed at the same time, we can do this sort of thing: the deal is that if they are both in bed at 8pm, Nathan reads to them from the hall until 8:15.  He decided to start with My Father's Dragon, which Janis (I think) had read to him and his sibs growing up.  The kids are enjoying it and are quick to jump in bed for a daddy read!