We knew them in California (although they live in North Carolina now), but it must have been about 5 years since we last saw them. Jeff was actually one of the preachers who performed their wedding ceremony, and we spent a lot of fun time with them in the beginning of their marriage. And now look at them--what a great family!
A couple of things stood out to me over the weekend:
1. our children really played well together--I was honestly amazed that we adults could sit and talk and not have to get involved with childish disputes very often at all--our boys had a great time with new friends, and we had a great time with old friends :)
2. the Lowery children sat and ate all the food on their plates without complaining, definitely evidence of good parental training--and it wasn't as if I served mac & cheese and hot dogs either--even unfamiliar foods were eaten well by the children--I was impressed!
(By the way, Jeff recently found the biblical precedent for requiring children to eat all the food on their plate, even when they're not in their own home. It's found in the instructions Jesus gave to His disciples when He sent them out. Luke 10:7-8, "Stay in that house, eating and drinking whatever they give you...When you enter a town and are welcomed, eat what is set before you." I freely admit that we are not where I want to be in regards to our own children having great attitudes about eating whatever is set before them, whether in our own home or outside of it! But we're working on it...) :)
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