This morning, our project at Lowe's was a ball toss. It actually was a pretty fast project and the kids spent much of their time just playing the actual game. It was only hard because there was not a good angle to lay the wood as you would hammer in the nails. It even came with little hackey sack size balls to throw into it. It is hard to figure out who has the most fun building these toys, the kids or me. Either way, it is such a great time for all of us and it is neat that Lowe's does this. It got me to thinking though. Lowe's must be losing their shirts on these!Some time this week, someone left a "Neighborhood Phantom" on our doorstep. For those of you who don't know, it works like this: Someone leaves a ghost, instructions, a treat, and a curse. In order for you to remove the curse, you must find two other people to pay this forward to within 24 hours. It was a lot of fun for us to prepare the treats and get everything ready. We also had a ton of fun door-bell ditching the people and running away to hide. We didn't get caught by anyone, although there were some close ones. It was a great experience, as this is the first year that we have been involved in this sort of thing. We had fun and we were able to make someone else excited and happy. That is always a win-win situation. To top it all off, the kids were even able to keep it a secret...........except when that one persistent family wouldn't stop asking Tinkerbell. :)
