One of my daughters has a good friend who invited her to a fall festival last weekend.They ate fair-type food, rode carnival rides, and stayed up late listening to local bands perform. When my daughter visits this girl’s house, she swims with her friend in their pool, explores the woods by their creek, plays Wii, and finishes the day eating pizza and Oreos.
This weekend was quite a contrast. My daughter wanted to invite this friend to our house, but we already had several things on the schedule, none of which was a carnival.The friend would simply have to tag along.This is what her friend—lucky girl—got to do with the Kroekers:
- Sit through little brother’s soccer game.
- Water the garden and window boxes.
- Sit through a sister’s soccer game.
- Meet up with members of a cross country team at a hilly park and run 45-60 minutes nonstop.
- Eat a healthy dinner that included broccoli. No dessert.
- Sit through a short devotional.
After the devotional, the two girls had about 20 minutes to play some kind of game that involved sketching, and then it was time to take her home.
Credits: “At the Fair” photo by David Ritter available through stock.xchng; “bowl of broccoli” photo by Jules available through a Creative Commons license via Flickr.
Yes! If she is anything like my daughter, who loves time with the Kroeker family regardless of the activities involved, she will want to come back. 🙂 It’s all about relationship and your family blesses many with authentic, loving relationships.
lol – love this! this is so the way we are with our friends… if you come, please come to hang. there’s not too much special here!
Oh yes, she will!
I can’t tell you how many times our kids’ friends had times like that with us. Unless it’s that I made them wash windows 😉 But they always come back…
I think she will too – after all it’s the people we are with much more than the actual “doing.”
The greater the Kroeker presence, the better the influence on all.
She should! She might live a lot longer eating your dinners. Seriously though… she’ll come back, since I’m sure she came just to be with you all – regardless of what you’d be doing.
Take heart… there’s faaaaar less happening in our neck of the woods and our friends still show up… often. 😀
You bet she will! You treated her as one of the family and it can’t get any better than that!!
my 10-month-old son can testify to the fact that i serve a lot of veggies… so far, he doesn’t have a ton of friends… but we’re still hoping 🙂
It takes all kinds to make the world go ’round! Variety is the spice of life. One man’s trash is another man’s treasure. One man’s ceiling is another man’s floor. There are many sayings that present the idea that we can’t and shouldnt’ all be the same and IT’S TRUE! Blessings to you and yours. Kim