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We’ve been blessed throughout the summer to be the<\/em> gathering place for neighborhood friends in our little loop.\u00a0 We’ve had three or four families of friends meet our boys in the backyard for playtime all summer long.\u00a0 They’ve loved our little clubhouse (a first birthday present for Alexander years ago) as a ship, camper, meeting room, anything-else.\u00a0 They’ve spent hours in the sandbox and running around in kiddo games and nothingness as little ones do.\u00a0 It’s Aidan’s favorite thing to run out, sit on the roof and call out for his buddy– ‘only a couple times,’ says muma– until he appears.\u00a0 Even little Lukie goes out and will call for the friends.\u00a0 But usually they will just appear, as they hear the chatter until we have a good ten or more friends goofing off in summer bliss.<\/p>\n Muma and Papa have loved being able to monitor the goings-on and police when necessary.\u00a0 Muma likes to talk with the friends and hear their stories.\u00a0 Papa likes to make sure everyone’s behaving and treating the yard nicely.\u00a0 But it’s also been nice to use this gathering place as a witnessing opportunity for the boys and our family.\u00a0 Between laughter and Praise song singing, cafe snacks and Lukie’s prayers for his friends Yaya, Bebor and Ara at every meal, it brings out great conversation and tangible lessons in kindness to others, handling a variety of situations, and shining for Jesus.\u00a0 The boys have really taken ownership of the role- passing out little cards or invitations on their own ideas.\u00a0 Even Lucas loves to invite Yaya (his favorite) in to listen to Your Story Hour Bible Stories.\u00a0 We love to see our boys completely unafraid to share Jesus with their friends.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Then, at the close of the season, Grammy and Grampapa surprised us with a\u00a0 gift of an updated playset for the boys.\u00a0 Grammy & Grampapa started the assembly process on a Monday, and for three days, our yard was a-buzz with curious and excited friends, and a hard-working Papa assembling dozens of boards at every available moment home.\u00a0 Grammy arrived at the end of the week to put in some hard-working hours with Papa and it was finished by suppertime.<\/p>\n The crew absolutely loves it, bopping from playset to playset- from ages one to twelve, the little friends have such fun.\u00a0 Thank you Grammy and Grampapa for our new ship\/cafe\/house\/spaceship\/island\/clubhouse\/playset.\u00a0 Thank you Lord for our gathering place of friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We’ve been blessed throughout the summer to be the gathering place for neighborhood friends in our little loop.\u00a0 We’ve had three or four families of friends meet our boys in the backyard for playtime all summer long.\u00a0 They’ve loved our little clubhouse (a first birthday present for Alexander years Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[283,377,154,82,97,360,359,411],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winklerworldonline.com\/sda2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/winklerworldonline.com\/sda2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/winklerworldonline.com\/sda2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winklerworldonline.com\/sda2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winklerworldonline.com\/sda2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2057"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/winklerworldonline.com\/sda2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2396,"href":"http:\/\/winklerworldonline.com\/sda2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057\/revisions\/2396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winklerworldonline.com\/sda2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winklerworldonline.com\/sda2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winklerworldonline.com\/sda2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winklerworldonline.com\/sda2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"9-2-2013](\"http:\/\/winklerworldonline.com\/sda2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/9-2-2013-playplace-construction-2s.jpg\")
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