.Sharing Parties

Seth, Jordan, Elisa and I are the youngest four kids in my family. When we were the last ones living at home we created sharing parties. We had so much fun.
One of us would put together invitations and hand them out to the rest of us. {Usually these invitations were made of things like paper towels in toilet paper rolls with smeared toothpaste and mousse all over them} We would climb through my Mom's laundry shoot whenever possible to deliver them to each other.
The invitation would simply designate a meeting place and time and a reminder that we needed to bring something to share with everyone else.


This is what makes it a sharing party.


Someone would bring enough pieces of licorice {from Dad's secret stash} for everyone.
Someone would make smoothies for everyone.
Someone would come up with a game for everyone to play.
And someone would think of a movie for us to watch.

I'd say we bonded :)


The last couple of times that Air and I have visited Utah we've all been restoring and breathing new life into our old sharing parties again. Of course most of us are married, and Seth and Jordan have kids and homes of their own now... but involving our spouses and the kids is the funnest thing about it now! Last month, all of Seth's kids brought something to share (show) to the rest of us, and Jordan's kids shared cookies that their Mommy brought for them. We played a story-telling game. Seth made everyone smoothies. Elisa played the piano while Jordan played his guitar. And we watched The Last Unicorn and some hilarious old Marx Brother's movies.


So awesome.


Next time we come, I call that we have a back-scratching-train! That way, everyone shares! Except me, in the front...

(Jordan, me, Dad, Elisa)

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