Friday, May 29, 2015

Rhinestone Jesus

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This book sat in my Amazon wishlist for awhile.  I was excited about reading it, ordered it, then it came and I read the back cover or something and was hesitant.  I wasn't sure I still really wanted to read this.
 
Then I opened the cover.  I never should have second guessed me choice in this book.
 
This book was moving, powerful, inspring and beautiful. 

As I read through this book, I cried, I smiled and I thought about my life and my family's life and how we could do more for Christ. 

I kept my pen handy and underlined and wrote notes in the margins. 

I shared tidbits of the book with my family around the dinner table.  The conversations were not quite as I expected, but it's a deeper conversation than we've done in the past and I realize people need time to process.  Our kids are young! 

I don't have the words to describe the impact this book has had on me, it is something that needs to be read.

This will be my go to book reccomendation for friends for awhile at least.  It is worth the read.  (Plus I want someone to talk to about this book more!)

 

Prince

Elinore came to the breakfast table this morning and say next to Caden.  As they started eating, Elinore asked Caden to be her prince. 

So sweet!

Caden tried to tell her he was the King and her father.  He wanted the power!

Disgusting

Caden and Caleb have for quite some time now really liked the word disgusting, especially to describe our supper.  As a result, Elinore now uses it too when she doesn't want to eat something.  However, she can't say disgusting, so she says pisgusting.  We try not to giggle every time!



(By the way, I had to google disgustin to see how to spell it; don't ever do it.)

Thursday, May 28, 2015

Girl Things

We took the kids to Idlewild over the holiday weekend.  While in the kiddie portion of the park, Elinore got to ride some, which she loves!  I asked her if she wanted to ride the motorcycles while her brothers were in the hand cars.  She told me NO, she wanted to do "girl things."

Oh honey, anything you want can be girl things, but if you don't want to, so be it!