Ice Cream and Lessons
I took the kids to Friendly’s on their last day of school. The restaurant is having some contest where the kids get to design a Sunday for a trip to Florida. Roger v7.6 is the eternal optimist was already planning his trip while working on his picture. Katie is a work horse and set herself to the task at hand.
Roger finished first and showed me his creation. He called it the “Astro Blast” and he had drawn a picture of ice cream in a bowl with whipped cream, a cherry and red sparklers all around. “It’s like a spaceship flying” he explained to me. It was really great. Katie handed me hers to fill out the contact info and I was stunned by how nice it was. It was three ice cream cones standing in a bowl with different ice creams on each. Katie wakes up drawing and goes to bed drawing and her dedication is starting to show in the quality of her work. I was filling it out and the space to name it was also blank so I asked her what the name of her sundae was. She got this glint to her eye and grinned, “The Best One” she answered. I nodded my head slowly. Yes, if I opened the menu and saw that I would order “The Best One”. That’s my girl.
After dinner they marched their drawings to the front of the store and were confronted with the entry box over flowing with thousands of entries. Roger was taken aback and looked up at me and said, “I guess no one has a good chance of winning.” He put it in the box and I took his hand. My heart hurt for his disappointment but I was proud of his remedial understanding of probability theory and statistics. I told him it didn’t matter if he won because he created something great and had fun doing it. Katie came bounding up from behind us with a look that said we were crazy. “But MINE is the Best One!” She then rolled her eyes and skipped to the car.
Roger finished first and showed me his creation. He called it the “Astro Blast” and he had drawn a picture of ice cream in a bowl with whipped cream, a cherry and red sparklers all around. “It’s like a spaceship flying” he explained to me. It was really great. Katie handed me hers to fill out the contact info and I was stunned by how nice it was. It was three ice cream cones standing in a bowl with different ice creams on each. Katie wakes up drawing and goes to bed drawing and her dedication is starting to show in the quality of her work. I was filling it out and the space to name it was also blank so I asked her what the name of her sundae was. She got this glint to her eye and grinned, “The Best One” she answered. I nodded my head slowly. Yes, if I opened the menu and saw that I would order “The Best One”. That’s my girl.
After dinner they marched their drawings to the front of the store and were confronted with the entry box over flowing with thousands of entries. Roger was taken aback and looked up at me and said, “I guess no one has a good chance of winning.” He put it in the box and I took his hand. My heart hurt for his disappointment but I was proud of his remedial understanding of probability theory and statistics. I told him it didn’t matter if he won because he created something great and had fun doing it. Katie came bounding up from behind us with a look that said we were crazy. “But MINE is the Best One!” She then rolled her eyes and skipped to the car.