Thursday, April 22, 2010

Family Night

We finished our 1st family night. Kiel & Esme asked us if we could adopt a family tradition from our friends & fellow missionary family, The Mill's. The Mill's have been a missionary family for more than 15 years & have 5 children. They started family night years ago to bring their family together each week when most of the time they are all doing things in different places doing different things.

Family night is when all of us after supper come together & watch a movie. With no distractions & a special treat to eat we sit together, watch, laugh, roll our eyes (Teresa watching funny cartoons) & talk (when the movie is done.) It is awesome because Kiel & Esme told us that this is non-negotiable & we (Teresa & I) were to pick a night for this to happen. Thursday evening is the time we have set aside & we are so happy that the kids value our time together & asked that we do this each week. God gives children his desire for family time, together in relationship & as parents sometimes all we have to do is honour these simple, but meaningful requests.

Oh, here is the movie we watched together: