Monday, June 23, 2008

Secret Friends

This is a little hard to follow, so if you can make sense of this tale, congratulations!

For family night last week, Jimmy had us draw names of family members to get "secret friends." Each person was to serve his or her secret friend for the week and on Saturday each would reveal his good deeds and tell who his secret friend was. It was a great idea. Unfortuately, someone in our family didn't quite get the concept.
Monday night, Jimmy found Amelia's shirt and a hair bow under his pillow. Tuesday, Jonny discovered a poopy diaper under Jimmy's pillow. He found it before Jimmy, thankfully. Jimmy caught Amelia and Jonny putting dirty pullups under my pillow. Thankfully I didn't find out until later.
Thursday, Gary and I found hard plastic blocks under our pillows.
Friday, Jimmy found a $20 bill under his pillow! Finally, his secret friend did something nice! However, I happened to know that his secret friend only had 18 cents. So the money had to be returned to it's rightful owner. (As it turned out, Amelia and Jonny had made a deal to pay eachother for doing chores. Monday, Amelia pays Jonny 2 cents to do her chore. Tuesday, he pays her 5 cents to do his chore. Not knowing anything about money- except that it's fun to spend- he gave her $20 to make his bed)

Lest you think we are all bad secret friends, here are some of the service highlights:
Amelia wrote (dictated) Jimmy a story about a boy and a bike
Jonny made Gary's bed (no, we're not like I love Lucy with the twin beds, he just wasn't MY secret friend)
Gary made a collage of Amelia's baby pictures for her
I cleaned Jonny's room. When he saw his room, he exclaimed- "Someone made my floor!"

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