At the risk of sounding like my true self slightly immature, I must tell you about the fun I had with my kids and a few of their friends last Saturday night.
It all started when Doug and Garrett had monopolized the tv with a less than exciting military history show. I decided to do a little web and blog-surfing. I happened upon a blog called www.kindnessgirl.com . On the blog, this woman shows short videos of various “random acts of kindness” activities that she has done. In one video she puts Starbucks gift certificates in books at the pulic library. In another she hangs one dollar bills in a tree. They are just fun little activities that put a smile on the face of the reciever and an even bigger smile on the face of the giver.
My favorite video showed the Kindness Girl lady and a friend delivering Hostess Ding Dongs to doorsteps and then ringing the doorbell and running ….. a kinder, gentler, take on the old (admittedly FUN) Ding Dong Ditch whereby you ring a doorbell and just run (leaving nothing). Why is this so fun? No idea. But it is. Always has been. Always will be.
I decided that it would be fun while Micaela was home for the weekend to do this with my kids. So I bought a bunch of individually wrapped Hostess Ding Dongs and then we wrote on the packages: “Enjoy your Ding Dongs, you have been Ding Dong ditched” 
I wanted to do the ditching early in the evening (like 8 pm) in order not to inconvenience, wake up, or scare anyone. On the Kindness Girl video they did it it during the day. But then g-man had a 7 pm football game so our ditching got a bit of a late start. We tried to target people we know who 1) We thought would think it was cute and fun and 2) who would probably still be up and about at 10pm.
So we put on black ninja clothes and hats, loaded up the Expedition with my three kids, two friends and myself (Doug for some reason did not want to participate:) and headed out.
IT WAS A BLAST! I mean Ding Dongs, wild kids running through the streets in black clothes, driving away before everyone was fully buckled … what could possibly go wrong?
I highly recommend HOSTESS DING DONG DITCHING. Your kids will not remember how many times you drove to Walmart at 11 at night for a poster board for the world cultures project they forgot about. They will not remember the time you cleaned their vomit off the white-carpet floor right after they had a big dinner of spagetti and red kool-aid. They will not appreciate how many times you didn’t buy something for yourself because they really wanted a pair of soccer cleats that were higher than what you budgeted. They won’t know or appreciate that. But even when they are really old (like 40) they will remember the time their mom took them HOSTESS DING DONG ditching…..
I love you Amber! Only you would think to do this with your kids. I am thinking we will do this soon cuz your right this is one they will remember for ever! Thanks for sharing the idea!
I als love you Amber! What a great idea, I especially love the video, or audio of you cracking up because you can’t open the door. hahaha. And to think our parents told us not to ding dong ditch.