Making Future Plans

Psalms 20:4 "May he give you the desire of your heart and make all your plans succeed."

This week was absolutely crazy. We had Family Fun night on Friday, which turned out great. It just required so much preparation.

Our theme this week was culture. Monday we went to Asia, Tuesday- Africa, Wednesday- Europe, and Thursday- South America. Most of the kids got really into it. Some of the afternoon activities consisted of Sushi with a woman from Japan (the sushie was rolled up PB&J), Tea with the Queen and Princess of a European country, and doing meditation and Yoga. one of our 1st-2nd graders, Shane, LOVED the meditation. He is normally found sitting like you'd imagine people in a temple to be during meditation, arms up and ring finger to thumb and legs criss-crossed.

Our family fun night was travel themed so we were in an airplane visiting all of these countries. The boys made a great video of the rules while on the Aircraft, it was so funn to see the kids reactions. Also, we laid out planes and clouds on the table for each of the kids and their parents to fill out about their dreams and what they wanted to be. Most of the kids had the common responses of dancers, pilots, and basketball stars. The parents dreams for their kids were just to graduate highschool/college and become something more than a minimum wage employee.

While I know some of our kids parents could care less about what they do with the rest of their life because they are so cauht up in their own life, it was amazing to see the responses posted on the wall. Even if they were the cliche answers that matched everyone elses. It was good for them to take the few moments away from thinking about themselves and actually give thought to the ones they brought into the world.