My Boys

Okay, I'm going to try to post on this thing regularly. There's so many things that I think of during the day that I want to journal, but never get them on paper, so I'm going to try to do it here...we'll see how it goes.

I wanted to say I'm so proud of my boys. We had a neighborhood party here last night, and my boys proved once again that they are hard workers. We didn't have enough people here to help us "man" all the stations, so they pretty much manned them during the whole party...which meant they didn't get to play as much as they should have been able to. We talked about it at bed/prayer time and how sometimes it's not about how much fun we have, but that we have the opportunity to serve people for a greater good. I know they don't understand all that means now...but I pray one day they will.

I had to tell myself that because I was so busy, I was unable to get a single picture of them during the night. So all day I'm thinking...what am I going to do for a scrapbook page about Halloween this year? This afternoon on the way home, S (without knowing that I'm thinking about that scrapbook page) says, "hey I know what you can say on a scrapbook page...'Photo Not Available - Children Serving God'." I got a huge smile on my face...not only because that will be the perfect page, but because S thought of it!

Co really wanted to go to Hometown Buffet tonight after football practice. That is one of his favorite places to eat...and I'm okay with it because after football practice, THAT BOY CAN EAT! S and I were talking about a political candidate and his view on abortion, and Ca asked what that was. So we had a conversation about it...which led to a conversation about standing up for what you believe in...which led to a conversation about Veggie Tales Rock v. Larry and Bob singing Veggie Tales...which led to a conversation about creation v. evolution! I don't understand the progression sometimes, but I love the conversations! When S said "let's get ready to go," Co said, "I want to stay here and talk some more." I want to hold on to that...because I know when he gets to be a teenager, we may not hear that very much. Thank you God for today.

A New Way of Communication

Wow...I never thought I would do this. Partially, because I'm super paranoid of putting details of my life for public exposure (what can I say...I'm married to a cop!), and secondly, because of time restraints. I choose to look at this as an addition to scrapbooking, and perhaps I will meet some of that need to "create" on a more frequent basis.