Adventures
Here we record the adventures that we take as a family, near and far.
We try to teach the boys to be respectful in different ways. One thing that we have told them is to call policemen "officers" not "cops." I just overheard EdWord ask one of his brothers, "You wanna play Robbers and Officers?" (AKA Cops and Robbers)
At Walmart, they have Christmas trees and decorations for sale now, and so I asked one of the workers, "Y'all know it's September, right?" She replied, "I know; we're running behind getting our school supplies out of here!"
Nope, that's not what I meant. :-)
I love to overhear my boys having conversations with each other about God.
Boy 1: "Do you realize that God built EVERYTHING that we see!"
Boy 2: "No, What He did, is that He made this great big giant ball and then WE got to build on it!"
That's what's on the schedule so far this morning for us men. Yep, I am eating pickles and watching volcanoes erupt on YouTube with my boys so their Mama can sleep in this morning.
"What would you boys like for supper?"
Ezekiel: "Lunch!"
Perhaps I should rephrase the question.
The boys sure were excited about the pumpkins that they acquired on the field trip during the Home Missions Conference.
"Papa, when we get home, may we please put my pumpkin in the oven and cook it until it becomes a pumpkin pie?"
If only it were that easy!
It started out with the boys singing, "Oh do you know the muffin man" in the back seat as we were waiting for Krysta to come out of the store. Then they graduated to "the Popsicle man." It was some time later, when I heard them sing, "Oh do you know the black man" that I saw the direct corelation to the people walking past our van. Yep, the "ugly man," the "mean man," the "painted man," and the "black man" were all real people passing by. Time to roll up the window!
Enoch: "I love pears!"
Krysta: "Do you love pears or Momma more?"
Enoch: "Pears"
Ezra (trying to outdo his older brother): "Well I love everyone! Everyone in the whole city!"
Krysta: "Do you love everyone more than food?"
Ezra: (very solemnly): "No"
The other day I made the mistake of wearing a red polo and black pants into Target. Before long I had helped an old lady find the batteries and explained to another shopper that I had no idea when they would stock more raspberry gummies. And then when I asked a sales associate where the diapers and baby wipes were, he muttered something like, "This must be your first day at work." Too bad it wasn't Pay Day.
Today I took down the Christmas decorations....