From Our House to Yours...

Merry Christmas!!

Last Post

This will be the last post for the week. We are busy making, baking, and decorating.

Enjoy your week and Merry Christmas!

Connected

Our sponsored child, Michael's, father is about to die. He has some sort of cancer.

It's strange to be connected,in a way, to someone across the world, someone you have never met, in a place you have never been.

Crying for a child who is about to experience something I never have seems like such a paltry offering in a time like this, but it's all I can do. My heart hurts for him.

Christie was able to buy his dad a bed so he could die in relative comfort. She thinks he may weigh less than 70 pounds.

Michael has 4 brothers and sisters, and a mother. Please pray for comfort for his father Charles, and for the family to get through this difficult time.

Conversations With Ethan-Presents for Jesus

Usually I don't post any context to our conversations. I just let it be what it is.

This week was our M.O.M.S group Happy Birthday Jesus Party. I was excited to go.

I'm sure it was great.

See, being the Minimal Effort Mom that I am I forgot to write it on my calendar. If something isn't on that calendar that hangs in the kitchen, it doesn't exist in my wonderful little bubble.

Doctor's appointments, dentist appointments, birthday parties, church events...

We miss alot of things.

Surely something as Magnanimous as Jesus' birthday party would have found it's way onto the calendar. I mean, He is the Reason for the Season after all.

Nope.

Hence the following conversation...

Me: Do you think we should have a birthday party for Jesus this year? We could have cake and decorate."

Ethan: "Yeah! Sure!"

Me: "What kind of presents do you think we should give Jesus?"

Ethan: "A jewelry box! With jewelry in it!"

Me: " Well, Jesus is in Heaven so its kinda hard for him to open his presents-maybe we could do something nice for someone else, I think He would like that."

Ethan: "Well, we could just buy Him some presents, and wrap them up and then open them at His birthday party."

Me: "Yeah, but then what would we do with them?"

Ethan: "We could just put them up somewhere. He would like that. We could open them while He's watching, and then He would say, "Whoa! I like that!' I think that would be fun. He would like it. Let's do that."

Wordless TUESDAY!

I realized I've totally forgotten about Wordless Wednesday for quite awhile.So to catch you up, how about we start early this week?