Night Games

One of my fondest memories from childhood were the summer nights we spent playing night games. We lived on a dead end street with, I would guess, 30-40 kids and we pretty much had free reign during the summers. we would play all sorts of games while our parents sat on porches or visited with neighbors. It really was idyllic. When I mentioned this to Isaac, his little brain hatched a plan. He was done with just trying to catch kids when they were outside and he decided to be a little more proactive. Hence, the flier:

He made about 30 of these and then went door to door asking people if they had kids or if no one was home looking around for signs of kids (like bikes or basketball standards) and leaving them with a flier.

That night we had about 15 kids show up. They started out with kick the can and then as dusk began to fall they started capture the flag. Granted, there was a serious lack of strategy on their part, mostly you were on your own if you got tagged and the fastest runners always ended up with the flag, but they had a great time. Ben even went out and helped Evie play for a little while. I think it was a hit and Isaac ended up making a couple new friends. They are even making plans for an encore this Friday.

I was so proud of my boy. It took a lot of courage to do what he did. He wanted more friends and he thought outside the box to get them. Nicely done, Zac.