talk about the unexpected

i will have to say that when it comes to our girls they are constantly teaching me a thing or two. lacey in particular is constantly keeping me on my toes and today was no different. i had planned on us going to register lela for 1st grade and then if time allowed taking in the free movie over at the theater. i should have known that lacey would have other plans. she always does...

we get to the movies only to sit there long enough to drink half of a coke and eat a few handfuls of popcorn, when lacey announces she ready to leave because she is tired. i honestly couldn't believe my ears. much to my dismay i couldn't convince her otherwise, so we ended up leaving literally 30 minutes into the movie. i guess to look on the positive side is: 1. we have the movie at home (kit kittridge) 2. we can watch it anytime we want to and 3. it only cost me a coke, bag of popcorn and a pack of sour patch watermelons. oh well...

i then decided to run down to the bookstore and see if they had a book i had been looking for. we then get into the store and lacey announces to lela and me that she wants to get her ears pierced. i quickly shoot the idea down, because we had gone through this before and she totally chickened out. the whole entire time we are in the bookstore she is pitching a fit because she wants her ears pierced. mind you she is only 3 1/2 years old and pitching a fit is par for the course with her personality. lela and i then try using reverse psychology, everything you could of think of. nothing was working. ok, off to claire's we go...

i'm totally convinced at this point it will not turn out well and lacey will yet again change her mind, which i'm fine with. wrong!!! the child hops up in the chair, picks out a pair of pink rhinestone studs (which i kind of guided her towards), grinss from ear to ear as the lady pierce one ear and then the other ear. not one tear shed. not one peep out of her. i couldn't believe it...

i'm still in shock. the lady said to me "i guess she really wanted her ears pierced?" you think? lesson learned. like i said lacey is always keeping us on our toes...

Surrounded By God's Love

Well, that is the title to our Children's Sermon that Kevin and I will give tomorrow at the 10:55 am service. Am I scared? Am I nervous? No not really, surprisingly enough I'm just very excited. And what even surprises me more is how easy the lesson came to me. I guess when you truly trust and mean really trust in the Lord, amazing things can happen. I've prayed that this is what we're suppose to talk about. When we were first approached I started off with one lesson that has materialised into another. And that I truly believe was God at work. In fact when I think about what I originally thought we should talk about has now fallen away and a new lesson was born in its place. Amazing, uh? Well, here is the lesson...

Our girls have two hermit crabs, Pinchers and Bananas. (We will actually have the crabs at church for the kids to see because they love that kind of stuff.) If you will notice the crabs live in a shell which surrounds their bodies and keeps them protected. Did you know that we are just like those little hermit crabs living in those shells? What do you think our shells are that protect and surround us? It's God and His love for us. We are surround by Him and His love everyday through the people we meet, our families and the beauty in the world. So, every time you see a little hermit crab I want you to remember that God's love is our shell. Amen.