Successful Gilbreth Family FHE ALWAYS involves FOIL

Tonight it was the 2000 Stripling Warriors and the Armor of God. It was a yawner until we whipped out the foil armor, and then we had two little wanna-be stripling soldiers totally ready to smack down the fiery darts of Satan. We also learned that Nora has some real prowess with a sword. Watch out neighbors!

We had a great evening attacking each other while wearing a helmet made of a strainer and foil, and shield made of a packing box and foil, sword made of a wrapping paper tube and foil, shoes made out of crocs and foil, and a breastplate of just foil.

The girls even played with them the next morning, but foil is not durable and it all disintegrated by lunchtime. While Nora was napping, I wadded up all the foil into a ball about the size of a volleyball.

Now here's the payback: when Nora wakes up she looks around and asks, "Hey, where is the Helmet of Salvation?" Combat really drives a concept home for her. After that she was content to play with the foil ball as she pretended it was a giant snowball rolling and crushing all of her little people as they tried to fight back. Combat, I tell you.

feet shod with peace and crocs.

When Nora's armed, she means business.

John being slain with the sword of the spirit.

Other foil successes:

Foil Liahona- beloved object in the house for several weeks until it got lost. Was found a few months later in the refrigerator. It was mistaken for leftovers. Which shows how often we clean out the fridge when an unusual shaped foil object can lurk in the corner without being noticed.

Foil Golden Plates- Hailey was really bugged by this because the golden plates were in fact supposed to be gold, and not silver, but I think there was some confusion with her about the authenticity, or lack there of. On the way to primary the next week, she asked if she could invite her primary class over so the could see the golden plates too, so they would know the Book of Mormon was true.