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Silly Sock Day
Grab
Money
Car keys
Small notebook and pencil
Go
Make your way to a mall or shopping center. Your goal: get the silliest, wackiest pair of socks for each of you that you can find! Take your time browsing through the stores. Let your daughter make note of the wildest pair of socks in each store, so at the end of your browsing you can go back to purchase your favorites.
Once you’ve made your purchases, enjoy a snack at the food court.
Put on your silly socks at home. They can be your secret sign to each other. Whenever you see your daughter’s socks or she sees yours, it means “I’m crazy about you!”
Sometimes life is just too serious. Our to-do lists never end, the phone doesn’t stop ringing, and the nightly reports bring a daily dose of bad news. We need a break from time to time to leave our worries behind and get silly together.
Ecclesiastes 3:1–4 reminds us that:
There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens:
a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance.
Today was your time to laugh! Whenever you see your socks in the drawer or on your feet, let them be a reminder to lighten up more often and enjoy the funny side of life together.
Dear God,
You give us so many reasons to smile—especially by the way you put my daughter and me together. Please let our silly socks be a reminder of your gift of laughter every time we wear them. Thank you for giving me such a fun girl to spend time with. Amen!