Family Fun Night

We decided to have a "Family Fun" night this evening.  It seems like this week we have had some challenges with the girls and dealing with some heart issues on the way they treat each other.  They are sweet, sweet girls with hearts that have Jesus in them, but learning to live together and share things can be tough sometimes when you are 2, 4, and 6 years old.  I was thinking and praying today about the girls and thought that it would be so fun to leave the drama in the past and enjoy an evening together as a family.  Just calling it "Family Fun" night made it exciting and enticing for the girls.  Knowing that we were all going to spend the evening together sure lifted up their spirits.  We started with cooking dinner together.  The girls set the table with paper plates and candle light.  We had to have all the lights off in the house, which made it interesting while eating dinner.  Mya wrote all of our names on sticky notes and put it on our plates so we knew where to sit.  I particularly liked the place setting for "Dod" (instead of "Dad").  Even Chloe had a place setting on her highchair.  We had a lovely dinner together with the typical scene where Mya ate her food speedy fast while talking a lot, Sara was still eating her dinner an hour later with no complaining, and Chloe had her daily bath because she is a messy eater and puts her dirty hands in her hair at every meal.  After dinner we took a family trip to Wal-Mart and Starbucks.  The evening was very nice and definately "fun" for all of us.  The best part was listening to all three girls giggle in the backseat of the car.  I love hearing their belly laughs!

This week I finished my online continuing education class and can finally renew my teaching license.  It will be nice to have that done and have five more years to take 6 credit hours again.  I am still running and lifting weights in the morning and enjoying that time.  I have another 5K race on Saturday.  I am hoping for some warmer weather and a faster pace for this race (except I think it is going to snow).  Saturday afternoon Dan and I are going to Columbus, without the kids, to meet my college roommate and her husband for lunch at the Cheesecake Factory.  We all had gift certificates from Christmas and decided to do a double date to use them.  Dan and I will finish Easter basket shopping while we are there.  We are also doing a bible study together and the assignment for this week was to go on a date and do something that we used to do together for fun (before kids).  Spending time at Easton shopping was one of our favorite things to do.  Even though we are shopping for the kids, it will still bring back fond memories.