Those whom he predestined...

Thursday morning (7/18/2019), I woke up and wandered down the hallway towards the kids rooms and I ran across Christian and Rebecca playing in the hall and when he saw me Christian exclaimed, 'I got saved!'.  Yeeeeeehawwwwwww!  Thank you, Lord!  He was so excited!.  He says he was woken by a shock to his head ~7, he got up and started writing down his dream and as he was doing this he started thinking that maybe the shock was God getting his attention and calling him to follow Him.  And then he 'got saved!'! 

Our salvation is a great mystery, my temptation is to try to have some portion of our salvation under our control, particularly with my kids.  The truth is that it is all up to God and we as parents have to wait on and trust in God.  Just as Saul got antsy and couldn't wait for the priest to arrive to perform the sacrifices, but did them himself, it's hard for us to wait on God - even when there is no pressure!. 

But God is faithful - He knows what He is doing and He loves my kids more than I do.  The more we grow in believing this the more peace and joy we will have as parents. 

That evening we celebrated by going out to dinner.  Here he is loving on his sister.

Follow him

When Jesus calls you, what will you do? 

That was the question in our bible study tonight of Matthew 4:18-22, where Jesus calls his disciples.  The question fell to Christian and he whooped about how he was going to tell Jesus 'thank you, thank you!'. 

True or False...

Before history turns to legend and legend fades to myth and things which shouldn't be forgotten are lost...we need to document some history which was already approaching myth.

True/False:  While Kim and I were at the hospital for a couple of days in Feb. 2013 having Rebecca

Chewbacca the dog pooped on the the table.  T/F?  This is a true story.  He had never done anything like it before and hasn't done anything like it since.  He had to jump onto a chair then up on the table where he pooped (this was on our old table which is gone now).  Gigi was staying with he and the kids and he must have gotten upset about something.  We confirmed this story recently with Gigi and Claire remembered verified that it was true too.

But see how much they love each other now.

Halloween Tradition...?..

Well, no one threw up this halloween, so I guess that's not going to be a tradition.  But, something did pop up again that happened last year.  After trick-or-treating in the Lake Wellington subdivision where the kids go to school (that went fine, had a good time) we came home and someone asked if we could watch a Star Wars.  As soon as they asked it had a vaguely familiar feeling and then Kim and I remembered that we watched a Star Wars after trick-or-treating last year!  So we popped in 'Empire Strikes Back', one of my favorites, and had a nice night.  Rebecca might have made it through the battle on...I don't know the planet, it was in the Hoth system, but then she konked out.  Here's the little piggy below.

Quite a fright

The Residents of Rolling Meadows got more than they bargained for tonight.  Spider man showed up and laid some 'itsy bitsy spider' on them.

Anna gave them a rousing rendition of Tiger Rag

Guinevere played the black cat boogie

We love their piano teacher, Mrs. Gary who gives them opportunities to perform like this.

Who threw up?

The kids and Kim just got back from 'trunk or treat' at Colonial church - an annual event.  I somehow always miss out on going, this year I am on the tail end of the 10-day flu.  Kim and I were trying to recollect the throw-up scene last halloween.  The throw-up scene was actually triggered by trick or treating in the Westlake subdivision on actual halloween.  We think Chloe threw up immediately when we got home and that Christian threw up that night in bed...and maybe Claire threw up the next day...  All of this speculation has prompted us to keep better track of this stuff.  So, the blog is back!