Day 2337 | Ice Cream Run

I’ve been wanting to host an after-school playground gathering as a way to bring some community back to the boys’ school after the last couple of years of isolation. Today was finally the day. I was hoping for a beautiful spring day and it wasn’t exactly that (I’m not sure it was even over 40 degrees), but that didn’t stop anyone from attending.

I don’t have an official count, but I think there were over 150 people in attendance (our school has about 300 students, in case you’re curious). We organized for ice cream to be delivered from a local ice cream shop as an incentive for attendees. Boy, did that do the trick! We planned for 50 scoops and then brought 36 single-serve ice cream cups as a back up. We ended up asking the ice cream parlor to scoop 25 more and we STILL ran out. Over 110 scoops of ice cream—and only for the kids (no adults!). I ended up offering free ice cream tokens to another 10 kids. Can you believe that?!? Neither can I!

We’ll, guess whose kids didn’t get any ice cream at the event? Mine. Haha. I told them they had to wait until everyone else had theirs…and then we ran out. Luckily, they were just as happy to hit the local ice cream shop for their own selections after dinner tonight. And this way Chris and I got a scoop, too. A win for us all. :)