Family Day

Today we spent the day as a family, having fun! As part of our Lent this year, rather than give things up, we have decided to use these weeks leading up to Easter to focus on being a Family which is gospel-centred. We (Nina and Simon) will be spending time reflecting on our parenting and praying that we will become the parents God wants us to be. We will also be doing some exciting and interactive bible stuff with Elijah and Ezra over the coming weeks using some excellent resources designed especially for pre-schoolers. We've got some great resources to kick start this journey and we're looking forward to re-focusing our attention and our priorities as we seek to become a more gospel-centred family over these next weeks. Ironically, in becoming more gospel-centred, we reckon we will become more family focussed and stronger together too.

So as part of our being more intentional in our family time (and as we had just been paid!) we decided to take the boys out for a special day. We had lunch at Pizza Hut where Ezzie ate and ate and ate. And then we took them to Hollywood Bowl. The boys were so excited (see their faces in the pictures in this blog). We had two games. I would like to say that they were stress free.....but I can't! The first game was hard because they wanted to do more than they could - Elijah particularly would not use the special ramp made available for small children to deliver the bowling ball. However, by the end of the first game (which Daddy won!!!!!!!!!!!), they were warming up to it. The second game was much more fun and the time just flew. And the winner of the second game by a long shot was...Elijah, closely followed by Ezra. I would say in our defence that when it was the boys turn barriers did go up so that their bowling balls were gently guided towards the pins. Still, they did really, really well. Watch this space for more Lenten family news and reflections.......