Highs and Lows

We play a game at dinner called Highs and Lows, which we got from the video Junior's Giants. We go around the table and each person tells their high for the day, or the best thing that happened, then their low, or the worse thing that happened. Our kids love it, and it's a great way to find out about each other's day. Often the high is something so simple, like Dave will say his high is coming home or one of the kids will say their high is eating a cookie. There have been days where one of our children has one meltdown after another, and yet at dinner they will say they didn't have any lows. I almost want to suggest one for them, but if they have forgotten all those lows, I figure that's a good thing. We include our guests in the game, and this is especially interesting. For instance one time we had the missionaries over and one of the elders said his high was the meal I had prepared and the low was that he had to go to the bathroom really bad before they came to our house. When we had those 2 little kids staying with us, the 6 year old girl said her high was that she was all alone at school and a girl came up to her and asked to play with her. Her low was that she had been all alone because her best friend said she didn't want to be her friend anymore. I don't think we'd ever had a high or a low like that in our family before. We always ask Brennan about his high and low, because of course he wants to be included, and he just jabbers away. Then a few days ago he pointed up to the ceiling for high and down to the floor for low. See? He knows what's going on.