Friday Nights

In our family, Friday night tea is a special meal. This meal marks the beginning of Sabbath for us and we like to have candles and nice glasses. We hold hands and sing a special grace, so should you ever happen to visit on Fri evening you will be part of this special treat.


Another special part of this meal is our family "Star" plate. This is given each Fri to a family member who has done something special during the week that we want to acknowledge. This weeks happy recipient was Master 9, in recognition for extra effort each morning in making his bed. Usually it looks somewhat like a herd of elepahnts have wrestled on his bed, even after his attempts at "making" it. But after a few words about this last week, I was pleasantly surprised to notice a nice smoothly made bed with neat cushions, almost everyday this week. Naturally being a sceptic, I asked my husband if he had been making it for him. Turns out Master 9 must have actually taken on board mypassing comment and has made an improvement. Well Done!

So we had an enjoyable meal, caught up on the days happenings. Heard an interesting story from Miss5. Something about, what if there were no matchboxes and we had to get a toy tyre to strike the match on so we could light our rockets made of wine glasses and send them shooting up into the sky. R U confused? We were. This I might add is the abridged and interpreted version. During the lengthy telling, Miss7 leant over and said to me "I don't know what she is talking about, do you?". To which I mumbled, "Just nod."

We enjoyed our meals of Capsicum and bean hotpot, followed by strawberries and icecream. Kids not into hotpot so had mini pizzas. Must work on widening there range of foods.

Well have a great weekend and Happy Sabbath!