“I love you and Daddy. And, I love family day.” Those were my five-year-old daughter’s first words to me this morning. Yep, it brought tears to my eyes and made my heart swell. I love family day too.
We have family day every other Friday. My husband has a unique work schedule. He works 7 days, and then he has 7 days off. Yes, his weeks on are long and busy weeks, but it is worth it for the 7 days off. Since we homeschool, our schedule is fairly flexible. On the weeks that he works, we do 6 days of school. Then, on his off week, we do 4 days and take the Friday as family day.
We do different things. Sometimes we might make a weekend out of it and go stay at a hotel. We’ve done day trips to different Historical spots. Yesterday we were going to head to downtown Lexington to the Spotlight on Lexington festival. However, since my oldest daughter has been feeling poorly (Mono), we decided to do something a little more low key. We went shoe shopping and then out to eat Indian food for lunch. (Our favorite!) Then we headed to the pet store and bought a new guinea pig to replace Funky Ricky, who died. (Welcome to the family Spunky Ricky.) Then we all (Including S.R.) went to the movies. After that we headed home and introduced the Guinea Pig to his new cagemate. Googles. We all hung out together in the family room, laughing at the guinea pigs and playing together. After we were fairly confident that the pigs were not going to hurt each other, we took a drive to Harrodsburg and ate at another favorite restaurant, The old Owl Tavern. After dinner we walked around the Beaumont Inn for a while and then headed home to watch the Clone Wars. That was family day. Nothing fancy or elaborate and mostly spontaneous. However, that mostly spontaneous day touched my little girl and filled up her little heart with love. That’s my favorite part of family day!
Wow, what a warm loving family you have. You know I have learned that those family days and trips are never forgotten, when your kids grow up, in their teens and adulthood, those days will always be a part of them and you know, they will always look forward to coming home to visit you and they will open up to you with no reservations. My parents used to share those kinds of days with us, all 5 kids (noisey),we had some family days where we would just sit at the dinning table and talk all night way past 1am. Then my mum would make sure we each had our favourite meals every sunday, (very simple yet it made such a powerful impact) we looked forward to weekend meals. I hope you and Josh always keep this up, guess what, no matter where i was, at school, college, here in the states, those memories still fill up my heart, and i am always drawn to my family, because it has always been a safe haven, full of love, laughter, sharing and EATING. You are so blessed Chrissy I hope you and Josh see that, and know that deep in your hearts, there is nothing like family.
so glad you all had a good day we had a family day too out at shakertown … so much fun. love you and your family.
I love Shakertown in October! Did you eat there? Love you.