I made this a couple days ago. Just a bag, not my new purse or anything.
On the drive home this is the convo in the back seat…
N: Mom, what are trees made for?
B: (Because I didn’t answer because my brain was shut off!) They give us oxygen and we can cut them really thin into paper.
Me: ( I finally woke up) That’s right Bella. Blah, blah, blah (me explaining what oxygen is). So Noah, what of those things is the most important thing trees do?
N: They are made so we can climb them!
Oy! What a boy.
Convo I had with Bella yesterday proving she has mean parents.
B: I wish Mt. Everest was in America.
Me: Why’s that?
B: So I could go see it.
Me: You can still go see it even though it’s in another country!
B: No I can’t. You guys never let me go on vacation because you always say I have to go to school. That’s why I’ll never get to see Mt. Everest!
Eric and Bella were talking today about Bella becoming a Mrs. Come to find out, Bella doesn’t know what the difference is between being a miss and a misses. At first she thought you became one when you turn 18. Then, after Eric told her it had nothing to do with age and asked her what many ladies do she said, “Oh! Have good manners.” Uh, no. He told her it’s something official that they do. She said “They don’t burp or toot at the table.” Rahahahahahaha!!!
Eric finally told her it was getting married that made you a Mrs. to which she happily said she’d do someday.
Tonight the kids wanted to hear a story about way back when I was young. Haha. I told them about the time when I was in high school and a boy threw a basketball to me and I broke my finger when I was catching it.
Bella asked if I was a very good basketball player. I told her “No, I stunk at it!” To which she replied, “That’s okay Mom. Not everyone is good at everything. And you are really good at being a good Mom.” What a sweetie.
This morning the ABSOLUTE BEST THING that could ever happen to me happened. Really. The VERY best!!!! Nothing will ever top it!
I was reading my Bible and praying at 6:15 in the morning. My heart was heavy thinking about the earthquake in Haiti and the reminder Uncle Glenn gave at Awana about earthquakes happening in random places as we get closer to the end times. I prayed that God would give me boldness to share the gospel more and that my kids would walk daily with Him, and of course that Noah would ask Jesus into his heart at a young age. And in walks Noah. He sat down and we cuddled a bit. Then we started talking about God, Jesus, satan, and other things of eternal consequence (all things we’ve talked about before). One thing led to another and we started talking about how if Noah asks Jesus into his heart he gets to be with Jesus someday. We’ve also talked about this in the past but he was never interested before. This time he said he wanted to have Jesus in his heart. To be sure I kept talking about it a bit longer and he said again that he wanted to pray. When I told him how to pray (confess your sin, ask for forgiveness, invite Jesus to come into your heart) he said “Dat’s too much stuff to wemember to say!” So I told him if he wanted he could repeat after me. To which he enthusiastically said “OKAY!” And we prayed.
And then I bawled my eyes out with joy.
It was amazing to give birth to our two kids. And it was an unexplainable peace and joy that overflowed in my heart when Bella asked Jesus into her heart a couple years ago. And now it’s even MORE of a peace and joy in my heart knowing that all 4 of us will one day be in heaven worshipping God together. I seriously could die right now at peace and with full joy knowing that! Today has been a glorious day!!!!
I laid Noah down for his nap today. It was way later than usual so he was beat. He cried when I taped the things on his hands. I feel like I’m torturing him. Anyway, he fell asleep pretty quickly, but then as he usually does, he woke up during the nap but this time couldn’t fall back to sleep. I heard him crying, but it was muffled, like a mitten covered hand was in his mouth. I’d cry too! He never fell asleep again. Just cried for a long time. Now he’s just laying in bed reading. He’s going to be one tired boy for a while until we get this thing under control.
Tonight is the official night we’re really working to get Noah to not suck his thumb. We taped a mitten over one hand and a sock over the other. He was pretty sad at one point (like in the video from a few days ago), but also excited to be a big boy. Last I heard him he said “I need to suck my fum because it tastes good. Now I don’t have anysing to taste!” This is going to be a rough few weeks! Pictures later.
This’ll break your heart! I was trying not to let him see that I was videotapping it much so that’s why it isn’t great footage.
