Tonight was Samuel's first night to go to "big church" full time in the evenings. They have childcare for kids 6 & under. Since he's a big 6yr old now, he is coming to church w/ us. He's done it a few times, but now it's official. Funny thing is, my BIG 6 year old crawled into my lap & fell asleep on my chest about 30 min. before church was over. Sniff, sniff....I love the big sleepyhead! He can still light up a room when he walks in. Thank you, God, for my sweet boy!
While tucking in Kourtney tonight, she said "Goodnight mama". It has continued throughout the weekend (her calling me mama) & seems so sweet each time she says it. Tonight I asked her again, "So, what will you call your mom if I'm going to be 'mama'? Didn't you call her 'mama', too?". She said yes....but then added "Now I have 2 mama's!". <grin....I think I'll take that>
Andrew & Savannah spent most of yesterday afternoon taking apart mechanical/electronic toys in hopes of building a robot that they could sell & make millions. Today it finally got out of hand when they grabbed one of Samuel's BRAND NEW toys (from his birthday party yesterday!) & started working on it. Luckily, Larry walked in & caught them before they destroyed it. He made them bag up all the MILLION pieces & parts of toys & throw them away. We'll be buying an erector set or some sort of take-apart-&-put-back-together toy this week. If we don't, I suspect we may wake up to a disassembled TV or refrigerator later this week. :) I'm glad they're curious & creative, but we need to channel that into something productive! Maybe we have 2 little engineers on our hands....either that or mechanics....or microwave repairpersons. LOL!
As we ended the weekend tonight at church, our pastor had people come up & give testimonies of miracles and/or healings they saw in their own lives. Some people talked of near-death experiences, others talked about cancers that had been healed. Larry told about how God had healed his broken scapula after the wreck 2 years ago. Sometimes we see healing shows on TV that seem so sensational & unreal, but hearing people that we know personally talk about a miracle or healing that has happened in their own life was really cool. The kids got to witness this & hear about the powerof God in the lives of these people & they were all pretty astounded at what they heard. At the end of the testimonies, everyone who was sick, injured or hoping for a miracle in their life was asked to come to the front & be prayed. Each one was surrounded by friends, family or Sunday School class members--whoever wanted to pray for them. Larry went up b/c of his back problems & was actually still being prayed for after everyone was dismissed. I know that God is going to heal Larry one way or the other! I am hoping that God will do this in a mighty way so that the kids, who witnessed the prayers lifted for him, will be able to SEE God work in our lives in a big, big way! Wouldn't it be cool to see one of them accept Christ or just come to a deeper place of understanding HIM because they get to witness a miracle in their dad's/uncle's life!?
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