First Icecream of the Season
We always make a big deal out of the "first icecream of the season". On Saturday, 4/26 we took the kids to Homeland Creamery for icecream. Nathan had chocolate, Mary Madison had strawberry and Savvy had her first taste of icecream as well- some of Daddy's chocolate. So FUN!
We LOVE A Baker's Dozen idea for a Pajama Ride. They put the kids in their pajamas, brush teeth, and send everybody to bed just like any normal night. Every so often, randomly, about 5 minutes after they put everyone in bed, the parents run upstairs and shout "PAJAMA RIDE". Kids come running and tumbling out of bed knowing that it means a surprise trip to get icecream. This is the kind of stuff that memories are made of! I can just see the kids, as adults, sitting around talking about remember how when we were kids mom and dad would take out for icecream at night??? We might do our first run in the next week or two.
I think the principle goes along well with this Micheal Pearl quote that I posted earlier:
Rules and principles make good fences for a family, but not good glue. Joy is the best family glue on the market. A carnal family with joy will produce better kids than a “spiritual” family with tight-lipped, rigid, or stern-browed legalism. It doesn’t have to be either/or. The absolute best approach is joyful, disciplined spirituality founded on the solid principles of the Word of God and separation from the world. -From his article, Training in Joy
Kip and Nathan a few weeks ago, getting ready to go to a Greensboro Grasshoppers Game.
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