Green Fairy Wings and Story Tales
October 30, 2011
Witches, pirates, green dinosaurs and pink tufted ballerinas stormed the nearby shopping center yesterday. Red firemen, fluffy brown poodles, and blue Thomas the Trains hijacked the sidewalks, and commandeered the shops, trick or treating with smart parents on a warm fall afternoon.
Weaving our way through the short creatures, my teen daughter and I grabbed green glitter glue, fluffy pipe cleaners, and cardboard wings in the craft store. (Morgan wanted to make her own fairy wings for an evening out with friends.) Then we strolled companionably across the parking lot to a coffee shop for the rest of our mother daughter date. Over her strawberry-banana smoothie and my hot Guatemalan coffee, we relaxed and talked of life, friends, family, our Bibles and God.
Soon enough our time was up and we raced home – me to make supper and Morgan to drizzle glue across white cardboard. Fairy wings and story tale endings are more about day to day efforts, I’m deciding. Fully aware of multiple shortcomings, our family is striving to be intentional – and full of prayer.
What about you? What helps you be intentional about parenting your kids? What parent/kid dates do you like to do?