Okay, this is totally irrelevant to anything and something most of you don't really care about but I'm telling it any way... after all this is my blog & I can write what I want to. I went to Gaffney last Saturday & purchased some white nectarines at one of those produce stands. They are SOOOOOO good!!!! Did I say they were good? There was probably 15 or so in the bag & I've ate them all but one... Corby said they were too mushy. Oh my goodness, the juiciness dripping off them... YUM-O. That is my favorite fruit this summer... nectarines. Last summer it was watermelon. I would eat a whole one... all by myself... not in one sitting, but in a rather short amount of time. I just love summer produce & all their yummy-ness. I would love to have a garden & grow all the stuff I love, but I don't have the money, patience or time for it. Maybe one day when I get old & don't have anything else to do, I'll grow a garden. By then my taste buds will probably be dead & I won't care what anything tastes like.
Okay, off that subject and on to another. Let me just say that I can't wait until school starts...10 days and counting. I guess the combination of heat and not being able to go outside, having a small house and boredom is getting to all of us. My boys are fighting constantly and they are so freakin loud... sorry I had to emphasize that word to stress what I really mean. I will miss sleeping in and the freedom to come & go without worrying about getting home for early bedtime, but I'm ready to get back into a routine. More so, I'm ready for my kids to have some time away from each other. They really need more than I do. Don't get me wrong, I love my children... A LOT... but some space is always good. In a way, I kind of wish we did the year round school thing. Then, instead of having 3 months off at one time and going to school for what seems like forever, there would be more shorter school times and frequent breaks, but not long enough for them to get bored. I will probably be blogging around January that I wish it was summer & my kids were home because they are tired of school & I'm tired of all the busyness. It's a never ending circle for me. I will be anxious to see how much I get done with only having Kensley at home. I'm going to have to buy some heavy duty velcro & attach it to my hip... that's where she wants to stay most of the time.
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
A Child of the Kingdom
We have great news... Chandler became a Christian about a month ago. He ran up to me in the van after church & said "mommy, mommy, I asked Jesus to come live in my heart!" He was so excited. (I must admit though, I was a little surprised. We've been talking about for about a year now, but he's never really seemed serious about it. I guess that was the Lord working on him & paving the way for it now.) We asked him how it happened & what he did and he told us he prayed in Sunday School. So, when we got home from church we talked to him more & Corby prayed with him to make sure he understood what he was doing. HOW EXCITING!!
Anyway, that happened the week before we went to the beach so we missed a Sunday while on vacation, so we talked to him Saturday night and explained what it meant to "walk the aisle"... as we Baptists call it...and that he would need to go up in church and tell the pastor. He was a little nervous about it, but very excited at the same time. He went up front this Sunday and Corby & I walked with him. The first thing he told the pastor was "I felt like I was going to puke walking up here!" The pastor laughed pretty good & joked back that he felt the same way sometimes when he gets up to preach. At the end of service when the pastor introduced Chandler to the congregation, he said, "well, he had a little Corby moment when he came up here and said he felt like he was going to puke"... of course everyone laughed.
Chandler is very excited to get "bab-i-tized" as he calls it... that's coming up Sunday night. I asked him tonight why he's so excited and he said "because I'm glad that Jesus is living in my heart". How filling to hear those words uttered from your child's mouth. To know that his life is given to Christ. Now, it's our job as parents to nurture & grow that new faith.
Anyway, that happened the week before we went to the beach so we missed a Sunday while on vacation, so we talked to him Saturday night and explained what it meant to "walk the aisle"... as we Baptists call it...and that he would need to go up in church and tell the pastor. He was a little nervous about it, but very excited at the same time. He went up front this Sunday and Corby & I walked with him. The first thing he told the pastor was "I felt like I was going to puke walking up here!" The pastor laughed pretty good & joked back that he felt the same way sometimes when he gets up to preach. At the end of service when the pastor introduced Chandler to the congregation, he said, "well, he had a little Corby moment when he came up here and said he felt like he was going to puke"... of course everyone laughed.
Chandler is very excited to get "bab-i-tized" as he calls it... that's coming up Sunday night. I asked him tonight why he's so excited and he said "because I'm glad that Jesus is living in my heart". How filling to hear those words uttered from your child's mouth. To know that his life is given to Christ. Now, it's our job as parents to nurture & grow that new faith.
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