Last night, Kevin fired up the chiminea again. I know it is early days yet, but so far the chiminea is a roaring success. We've had bonfires before, as I said. But the bonfire spot is quite a ways from the house, which makes it hard for me to be there since I don't want to leave the littles in bed by themselves for more than a couple of minutes.
We have the chiminea right outside our sun room door in a little patch of grass. We can easily haul folding chairs and lawn chairs out and put them in a circle around it.
The children have varying interest in the chiminea, with Naomi being least interested and Isaac the most. And that's fine, everyone is different. Sarah got to spend a few minutes on Lydia's lap before going to bed. She thought it was interesting, but not for long. What she REALLY wants to do is run around and grab things, and that doesn't work with a fire.
The really special part of last night was that Kevin pulled out his guitar and we sang worship songs together in the light of the fire. Kevin is an accomplished percussionist, but he took up guitar many years ago and is very proficient with the guitar as well. Isaac announced that Daddy's music was "much better than church" which I thought was cute. The church music is probably pretty good (he is in a special kids church during the service and I haven't heard how their band plays) but Kevin is better.
It was amazing to be worshipping God together as a family with the stars shining brightly overhead and several precious children gathered around us.
We are probably done for the year as a cold front is moving through. Of course, soldiers and wanderers have camped out by fires in the cold, but we're wimpy. It was actually quite chilly last night as their was a strong breeze and the fire, while nice, wasn't really hot most of the time. But it was great fun.
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