so bring some out here

I want to give you guys some parenting advice. Here it is: if you bribe your children with a Sunday Night Treat (it has to be capitalized) that can be earned or lost, their behavior in church will gradually improve until you can finally make it through all fifty minutes of Sacrament meeting (this is as far as we've made it)without having to take anybody out into the hall for squishing. But the Sunday Night Treat has to be something they actually want--carob bars will not work here.

Things that work for my kids:
root beer floats
popcorn
cookies
rice crispy treats
ice cream

Things that only work on one or two children, if at all:
pudding
cake
pie
fruit crisp

Speaking of crisp: we had some peach crisp at dinner last night that was really something. I did the peaches and Sarah did the topping, and it was super hard for me to not eat the whole pan. I think the fruit of eternal life is a peach.

Here's a funny story for you. Once when John was young his family was eating their standard popcorn and root beer on Sunday night. One of the kids got sick and barfed his popcorn all over the table. Everybody stared in shock, and then John's mom got a spoon and started scraping the popcorn off the table into a bowl to clean it up. One of the other kids thought she was trying to save it, and said, "Mom, it's okay. You can have my popcorn." Ha ha ha ha! So sweet and gross.