Family Home Evening

We borrowed Karolyn's idea. If you haven't read it, and you have access to her blog, go check it out.

While the kids were preoccupied, Ian told them they had 5 min. to pack what they would need to live on for 3 days. We actually planned on taking them to get ice cream. Todd and Zack went to town right away packing their backpacks. Matt spent most of his time following us around asking, "What's happening?" I kept explaining it to him but he kept on asking. Finally I reminded him that he had already packed a backpack for his camping trip with maw maw & paw paw next month(Talk about ready to go camping! LOL!). His eyes lit up and he said, "Oh, yeah!" so he took off to find his backpack.

The funny part was, just like Karolyn's hubby, Ian couldn't find his wallet. Go figure. LOL! He found it pretty quickly so we loaded up and headed out. By then the kids had decided that we must be going camping early.

I had Ian pull over in the church parking lot so we could explain to them what was going on and to find out what everyone packed. Todd brought 3 sets of clothes, pj's, his bionicle toy, and a few other favorite things. Zack brought pj's, a pull-up, and 3 sets of clothes. Matt brought (now this was what he packed for his camping trip) his bicycle helmet and pj's. He explained why he didn't bring 3 sets of clothes like his brothers did. He said he would just wear his pj's while his clothes got washed. :o)

I pointed out that no one brought food. Todd said we could eat out. I told him we would not be camping out at McDonald's. Dad piped up that we could all chew on a piece of Todd's bionicle. Mmmm, tasty. I think I'll pass. Matt still didn't quite understand that this was a drill because he said, "Oh, man! I forgot my bicycle!".

This was a good lesson for all of us. We really need to work on being more prepared. I think we'll try this again several months down the road and see how it turns out.