Celebrating love

For a few months now the kids have collectively been working towards a goal: putting rocks in a bowl. I wrote about the start of this challenge here, and ever since then they have been doing loving things for each other, sometimes in a genuine way and sometimes rather contrived, and have been steadily filling the bowl. It seemed appropriate that we got to celebrate the completion of the challenge on this weekend we celebrate love!

As their reward, after much deliberation, they chose to go to Kabuto -- a "real" restaurant with a server and everything. It is conveniently located around the corner from my parents', and they graciously watched Miles for us so we could have a yeller-free evening. It ended up being a lot of fun! The server and Rayna enthusiastically interacted with each other, Strider thought our chef was exciting, and Colsen was in awe of the whole thing. He keeps repeating, "They cooked on our table!!' It was fun watching how amazed they all were.


We're thankful for these kids, who are gradually learning what love means! Tonight the bowl gets emptied out again, and we'll start all over....