The Bible plus: The four books of Mormonism | The Christian Century

The Bible plus: The four books of Mormonism | The Christian Century

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Last Christmas we purchased a trampoline for the family.  The kids love to play on it, or sleep out on it, but I rarely use it myself.  One night, however, I was on it playing around with my kids.  Somehow there were pillows on the tramp, leftover, I think, from sleeping out the night before.  The kids started having a pillow fight, when suddenly I heard a ripping sound and saw some feathers floating around the trampoline.  The kids looked at me expectantly, wondering what my reaction would be.  I think ten years ago I probably would have become angry, but I guess I'm mellowing in my old age, because I reached down, took a handful of feathers, and threw them in Erin's face. 

Well, you can imagine what that started:



There are a lot of feathers in one pillow! Who knew?

If you are planning on doing this for family home evening, here are a few pointers to remember:

• You can't breathe once you suck in a mouthful of synthetic feathers
• Feathers adhere to EVERYTHING!
• It takes at least three washes to get feathers out of long, naturally-curly hair (Erin is still finding feathers next to her scalp).
• Neighbors don't appreciate the wet-dry vac going full blast at 10:30 pm.
• The laundromat is an excellent place to wash and dry a batch of feather covered clothes.

My wife didnt want to participate in this family function, so I just asked her to come take some pictures...(evil grin!).  As she was taking pictures, I tried to jump through the tramp screen opening, slipped on the feathers, bounced off the springs, hit the ground rolling, and came up and grabbed Jen as she was trying to get back to the house.  She was a good sport as everyone put feathers down her back.

Sorry, Erin-of-the-naturally-curly-hair!

Curly hair strikes again.



This is the part where he couldn't breathe!

This was a spontaneous, fun, family moment.  Everyone was a good sport and we had a lot of fun!