Listen First and Then Have a Truckload of Fun
It all began with a text from my friend Susan on Friday night: “You and Notty been building a snowman today? Lol.”
“Not us! You?” I texted back.
“We may build one tomorrow,” she replied.
That’s when the idea first came into my head. Should Ray and I build a snowman on Saturday? With the idea came the questions. What if getting cold makes Ray sick? What if he falls and one of his weakened bones breaks?
Slowly an idea came to me. I could gather snow for both snow cream and a snowman and we could build the snowman on the porch!
And that’s just what we did.
Then I went inside and fixed a one course lunch: Maple Snow Cream.
Here’s the recipe I found online and shared back in 2021 (I reduced all of the ingredients except the vanilla for our two servings.):
Maple Snow Cream
8-10 cups snow
1/2 cup maple syrup
1 cup cream
1 teaspoon vanilla
Stir well. The recipe said that you should eat it all when you make it because it doesn’t freeze well. And so, we did that in 2021 and on Saturday, too.
One of the best things you can teach your children is to be open to the ideas, advice, teaching, and counsel of others. First, we should surround ourselves with wise and godly people. Then, we should listen to them. Often their advice will keep us out of trouble. Often it will help our lives go better. Sometimes it will give us what Grandpa in You Can’t Take It with You calls “a truckload of fun.” That’s what listening to Susan did for us on Saturday.
Where there is no guidance the people fall,
But in abundance of counselors there is victory.
Proverbs 11:14
Without consultation, plans are frustrated,
But with many counselors they succeed.
A man has joy in an apt answer,
And how delightful is a timely word!
Proverbs 15:22-23