An Afternoon with Aunt Laura

On Thursday, Aunt Laura came over to go to the lake with us. Unfortunately, we took a wrong turn and ended up in Meltdown City, Population: 1 (6 year old drama queen), so we had to cut our afternoon short. It was ok though, it was brutally hot and we had a nice afternoon anyway, chatting and playing with the kids. Then the boys and James got home and got to play with Aunt Laura and she ate dinner with us. After that, she came with me to a home party for a company called...well I forgot what it's called but it's about creating good memories for your family by starting traditions and stuff like that. I had never heard of it before until recently. It was pretty interesting, I bought the book that gives good ideas of things to do with your family. As a free gift, I got the "Candle of Honor". You're supposed to use it at dinner time. You choose one child who exemplified some family value that day (sharing, responsibility, kindness, etc) then you light the candle in their honor and let it sit by their plate during dinner. We've done it the last two nights and the kids loved it. I'm worried about when Parker gets to have it though, I think he'll just want to sneak his food into it and watch it burn. Oh well, family values aren't his forte right now anyway! I was glad Laura came with me, it was a great day afterall.