Last weekend, in a moment of clarity~ and the need for some fun~ I decided to take the children on a little surprise adventure.

Every so often we tell everyone to get ready to go somewhere. We don't tell them where we're going. Sometimes we give them a clue, sometimes not. But the destination is a surprise.

 

This time when we piled in the van, I took a picture of all the children in the back– wondering where we were off to. {Can you tell that Judah didn't want me to take a picture?}

 

I had given them a silly clue as to our destination. I shouldn't have. On the way there I confirmed that Colleen (as predicted) had figured out the plan. But no one else had any idea.

 

Until we pulled into the drive-in at Wendy's.

 

And ordered a Frosty for everyone.

 

 

 

 

 

It wasn't expensive. It wasn't complicated. It required no technology or advanced planning.

 

It was just simple fun. It was togetherness. It was just like my parents used to do with my brothers and me when we were young. Good, old-fashioned togetherness.

 

We laughed and relaxed together~ even if teenagers try to pretend they're cool for the camera.

 

We all need to be intentional to pull away from the world.

We need to be mindful to take some moments during our day to connect with those we love the most in all of the world.

 

This is the eternal.

This is where our treasure lies.

 

 

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Welcome to the first week of the . . .

Family Connections

{For Summer}

2012

Blog Hop!

 

This summer Missional Mama, Our Good Life, Looking at Life Creativlei, Walking in High Cotton, and the daisyhead (that's me!) will be joining together to host the exciting Family Connections Blog Hop.

Each Wednesday we will be posting about a different theme for summertime fun with your family. The theme this week is (Old Fashioned) Family Fun.

Our goal is to gather ideas and inspiration towards connecting with our spouses and children in an intentional and lasting way.

We invite you to link up with posts about the same topic for the week or another idea of summertime family fun that you'd like to share. Feel free to link an older post as long as it is only linked once. Then grab the button code over in the sidebar to add to your post so that others can come and benefit from everyone else's ideas and link up their own.

We hope you'll join us each week for inspiration and to share your own Summertime Family Connections! Next week we'll be sharing about Nature Connections.

 

Fine Print:

We ask that you include the graphic or a link back in your post, link your blog post directly and (Please reference “What is a Permalink?” at My3Boybarians if you are unsure how to do so.), keep your posts family friendly and stay on the theme. {We reserve the rights to delete any links that do not follow these rules.}