Vacation Bible School

So today we had our Vacation Bible School at church and they originally was not going to have a class for young children under 5 years old but since four of the people working it had children under that age, a lady volunteered to teach the class. Anyway it turned out that we had 17 kids on that class! The teacher and Anndea had been talking and thought we would have more than 10.

Anyway the boys brought our neighbors and they all had a blast. The learned about Daniel and the lions den and interpreting dreams with the help of God, and about King Nebby. They got to play with play doe, make lions and much more.

Everyone in their class was full of energy, I have never understood why people give kids cookies half way through the day it just makes them crazy. And of course they had 2 snake breaks and after the first I thought we would never get the kids back down.

When I was in Wynewood doing youth ministry (we mainly had 3rd- 8th graders) I had figured the above out. You tell the kids if they are good they can have cookies once it is all done. The kids are the best angels in the world even the ADHD ones. Then about 15 minutes before the parents get there you give them the cookies and coke and the parents profusely apologizes for their children's behavior, even if you said they were great. :o) So moral of the story bribery with cookies is better than cash.

Now with Andy this does not work, once he sees a cookie or hears the word cookie he just throws a fit until he gets tired or gets one. Typically it is until he gets tired because he has not eaten all his chicken yet.


On a side note, the boys and I leave tomorrow to go camping for 2 nights so keep me in your prayers.