We have gotten most of our furniture now. Pauline has been making the curtains and the recliner could be here as soon as this weekend. We are very pleased with how the room looks. Vicki looked at it and said, “You know, I feel kind of like a grown-up now.”
WHAT’S HEAVEN LIKE? Jenna was asking Vicki about this the other day. After Vicki answered the best she could Jenna thought for a moment and asked, “Do you think we’ll be able to spell any word we want there?” After Vicki said she thought we would Jenna replied, “Good! I want to be able to spell supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.” (Of course, said backwards that’s “dociousaliexpiistic-fragilcalirupus”--um diddle diddle diddle, um diddle ay....)
THE COLLECTOR. We went out to eat at a Chinese restaurant before visiting Aunt Helen last weekend. After opening our fortune cookies, Jenna asked Vicki for her fortune since she was collecting them. Vicki said, “Oh really? How many are in your collection?” Glancing down at the table Jenna sheepishly replied, “One.”
BIG THOUGHT FROM A LITTLE BOY. The YMCA has its own version of fortune cookies in the form of "spiritual vitamins." Members are encouraged to pick up a colorful slip from a basket and contemplate the scripture verse or other quotation. Benton and Nate always grab one as they leave the Y and Vicki reads it to them after they’re buckled up in the van. One day Benton’s quote was ,“Your children will become who you are, so be who you want them to be.” This struck him as profound and he encouraged Vicki to keep it so she would know how to “deal with him better” . . . out of the mouths of babes!
Benton has a mind of his own, unfortunately for us this can make parenting him a challenge. We pray it will serve him well one day (the sooner the better). We are proud of his progress and are encouraged to see him thinking more and being more considerate of others. We are so glad we gave him an extra year to mature before starting kindergarten. He will definitely be ready come August.
INHERITED THE “ANNE GENE.” Vicki and Nate went to White House to pick up our new carpet on Friday. Vicki said Nate talked her ears off for the entire 20 minute journey there and back. He rarely paused to even give her a fair chance to jump in with a comment of her own. Most of his conversation revolved around the kind of cake he wanted for his birthday (Bob the Builder). He was disappointed to learn he has to wait 2 more weeks.
We advertised our old furniture in the local trade paper and some folks came by the house to see the goods. Nate was the gracious host and welcomed them in with an enthusiastic, “See my beautiful home?” This embarrassed Vicki, but the lady agreed with our personable little boy. Nate sold our couch and threw in the love seat to this nice lady.
DILIGENCE OR OBSESSION? I mentioned back in the fall that I was beginning to convert our home movies from video tape to DVD. I’ve worked pretty steadily on this and feel like I have run a marathon as there are now 28 DVDs on our shelf (Vicki accuses me of being obsessed). The only editing I’ve done is placing chapter markers at the beginning of different events to aide in navigation. Whenever you come to visit we’ll be more than happy to entertain/bore you with over 40 hours of home movies.
One thing I failed to report a few weeks ago is that we had a screening at church for one of my DVDs. In doing all this I assembled a DVD showing the progress of the church construction project in 2000-2001. The end result was a 65 minute film that was shown on the evening of January 8. We served coke and popcorn and I think everyone that came really enjoyed it.
THE SPORTS SECTION. Last week’s game wore me out--but then sitting on the sidelines trying to keep two boys from wandering onto the court will do that. Jenna made her usual two goals and she was right on target with both as there was nothing but net as the ball went in. I had to laugh after the game as I heard some of the girls ask their coach if they could challenge the boys to a scrimmage game.
PLEASE PRAY for Marijo Combs, a cousin of mine. She is in the CCU at NorthCrest with some respiratory issues. I know she has improved since being admitted and she is being kept unconscious.
Joe
