Every Monday night for a half hour or so we have Family Home Evening, where the family gets together and one of us gives a gospel-centered lesson while the rest of us torture the cat, gaze at the ceiling, tell Sarah to GO SIT DOWN every twelve seconds, etc. Last night Mom helped Natalie (age 5) put together a lesson about Building a Happy Home. Part of the lesson was all of us TOGETHER actually building one house out of blocks. Of course right off the bat Natalie and Emma opted not to help with the group project in favor of building their own towers, and Becca flew Jacob around in the empty block box; but Katie, Abby, Sarah, and I built a pretty fancy block house in four minutes flat.

Of course you can’t see it here because Becca put her head in the way. That’s the beauty of point-n-shoot digital cameras: You can press the button whenever you want, but the picture snaps whenever it wants. And since a group of kids will change configuration about every millisecond, you never know what you’ll get when the camera decides to take the picture.

Here’s what we got, clockwise from Becca’s head: Becca’s head, Katie, the Abby/Sarah blob, Emma, Natalie, and Jacob.

But that’s life with kids. It was a great lesson.