New Friends

Zach and one of his new friends, Jack, walked out together when school was dismissed. Apparently Jack had invited Zach (and me, by default) to his church carnival. After some discussion between myself and Jack's mom, I said that we could probably go. I think friendships are so important for school age kids. Even though Zach is a super outgoing kid, I feel like right off the bat he's at a slight disadvantage because he lives so far away from most of his classmates. Because of this, I plan on being very intentional about encouraging every opportunity that he has, to develop those relationships. All afternoon, all I heard was, "when are we going? when are we going?" We got to the carnival around 7 o'clock this evening, immediately I wished that Jack's mom and I exchanged phone numbers or something. We hung out on our own for close to an hour before Zach and Jack (literally) bumped into each other. The rest of the evening we spent with Jack and his mom. The boys had a great time sword fighting and spending lots of money on games that resulted in lots of useless junk, but that's what being a kid is all about, right?!?! The way home was really cool, he was so happy! He couldn't stop talking about school and "his new best friend". He says that he can't wait for Monday to come, so he can go back to school. I wish a got some pictures of the new friends, but you'll just have to take my word for it.