The Key to Family Happiness

Do you want to know the key to making all your family members simultaneously happy?

Are you ready for this?

It's Ice Cream!!

Yup.  That's right.  Let me explain:

While we were on vacation, the kids were having "one of those days."  You know the ones.  Each one was taking turns having something go wrong, and even our camping equipment was having technical difficulties.  (If you don't know what I mean, either you don't have kids or you're in denial.  Or you're perfect -- in which case, I don't want to be having this conversation with you anymore.  Go play with someone else.)

I lamented how I wished I could get everyone to all be happy at the same time.

A little bit later, we stopped for ice cream.  Almost instantaneously, everyone was smiling, joking around and happy.  Everyone.  It was miraculous.  I think birds might have even started singing in the back round.

In order to be scientific about things, I knew we needed more experimentation.  So we got ice cream again.  And yes, again, everyone was happy while eating ice cream.  Now you know.  It's a scientific law.  Ice cream makes families happy.

I'm not sure how this information is going to fit with my "no sugar" ideal.  I'll have to work on that...

What do you do when you need to give your family a "happy pill"?

Angela