On Thursday night, we had another Stew Family Night with a snow theme. I had been planning this one for a while, just looking up what we could do and let me tell you…there are endless possibilities with building a night centered on SNOW!
For decorations, I painted some branches white and hung some snowflakes from them and switched out all the red in my kitchen with blue and white.
You can see that we all wore white shirts to celebrate our snow night!
On Wednesday, I started making these cake pops with my handy assistant, Emery Kate. She loves to help out in the kitchen.
This was my first attempt at these, and let’s just say….it was pretty obvious!
We started out dipping the snow pops in the chocolate and it pretty much went downhill from there…
I had major chocolate melting issues for some reasons and wasted about 3 bags of white chocolate.
So, I ditched the idea of making them look like a snowman and settled for snow pops!
Or Snow Balls!
Either way, they were amazing to eat!
Working with the kids was interesting as well…can you tell who did which ones???
This is the reality of doing family nights. Sometimes our efforts in creating a fun, happy night end in disappointment at times. Things don’t always go as planned or hoped.
This was one night, that at the beginning, I was ready for bedtime! Just the way it is sometimes!
For dinner, we had Potato Soup or melted snowman soup!
After dinner, Jason talked to the kids from Psalm 51:6-7
6 Surely you desire truth in the inner parts;
you teach me wisdom in the inmost place.
7 Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean;
wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
We talked about sin and the holiness and purity of God. We also talked about the cross and how Jesus
watches us clean, like snow. Such an amazing picture of salvation that the kids could understand…at least somewhat!
Next, we did a little craft. My kids love to paint and do crafts, which is fun, stressful, and messy!
I bought some votive candles and we went to work creating our own snowmen candle holders.
Their personality traits are
so evident when we do things like this. Parker, the perfectionist, can get caught up in getting just right. Emery wants to do it a little differently than
what we have suggested. Bradley just jumps in and has fun doing it!
Bradley managed to cut his hair twice with the scissors…I told you it was one of those nights…
Bradley creating his masterpiece…
Emery putting some finishing touches on…
Bradley’s completed craft…the face only a mother could love!
We were going to play a game and “build a snowman” by wrapping them in toilet paper and scarves, but
it got really late, so we headed to bed.
And the next morning it started to snow……
