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Last week, Anna and I got to go on our first mother/daughter Passport to Purity overnight date. I started this with Tori when she was 9 and the Tommy started it with Jakeb when he was a bit older. Boys are different than girls. I know, you had no clue.....
Anyway, since we hardly ever go by the book on things, we take three years with three well-planned and memorable dates to complete this with each kid. The program says to complete it all in one weekend when they are 11 or 12 but we found that there is information in it that they should know when they are younger, especially the girls as they develop earlier. They look forward to it each year and so do we. Tori and Jakeb have already received their "passport". I am so grateful for this program and cannot praise it enough. It is beneficial on so many levels, education, communication and spending time with each individual child -the list goes on.
Anna and I went to Houston and stayed at a 4 star hotel (thanks Priceline), ate at Cheescake Factory (her favorite in the world!) and shopped at the Galleria until our feet could go no more and we got our ears pierced. The ear piercing was a surprise gift for her. She was surprised and thrilled and then nervous when the Libby Lu lady got that gun out and it became a reality. I joined in the fun and gifted myself with getting my second holes pierced as well. Yes, a 41 year old got her ears pierced at Libby Lu! Funny, huh? So, we have the experience of getting holes punched in our body to share forever!
The pictures are pretty self-explanatory except for the green stuff. That was a project for one of the sessions that started with clean water, talking about her having good friends and then we dumped coffee grounds, dirt, green food coloring (bad friends) to show how they mess things up. We also did another fun puzzle project. The projects are all planned out for you in the program. They say the hard stuff. You just have to plan ahead a little and gather the supplies. It really couldn't be any easier.
It was the start of three years of fun, memorable dates with Anna. We're already ready for next year.
2 comments:
Ya'll are so cool...we get so many ideas from you on parenting and family traditions!
Thanks for sharing. Randy and Ashley
Hopefully we can keep from sharing any of our bad ideas! :)
I really can't say enough good about PTP. You should just go buy one now for Kendall and have it ready. Except that we had to upgrade to from cassettes to cd for Anna. Who knows what might replace the cd by the time Kendall's ready.
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