Yes, I did forget to mention that my mom came to visit in the last month. Sorry, Mom. I was just looking at my calendar and remembering what I could. We did enjoy your visit as always. The boys always flock to Grandma with books. No one reads like Grandma!
This weekend we took a little trip to Tulsa to visit some good friends. I've been friends with Mariah for something like 15 years. She had a baby in September and we made the drive down for a visit. James got us a "ritzy" hotel in downtown for an amazing $50 a night. When we went to the pool Friday afternoon were highly disappointed. The water was freezing! I finally went to the front desk (in my swimming suit and dripping wet, in the lobby of the ritzy hotel) and inquired about the water temperature. As it turns out, they recently had resurfaced the pool and couldn't yet turn on the heat. Brrrrrr! We let the kids play in the hot tub for a while and then called it quits on the whole thing. We spent all day Friday and most of Saturday playing and driving around the rural-ish northern part of Tulsa. It is always so great to spend time with good friends!
My husband has been pretty entertaining recently. A couple nights ago after the kids were in bed he built a tower out of blocks. Yesterday when I got home from school he told me about a show he saw where they were making jewelry. He had some good ideas for making a Scrabble tile into a pendant for a necklace.
My oldest sister is coming to visit this weekend. I'm super excited! Saturday we are going to a retreat at our church for women. Hopefully we have a good time and learn something!
Asa is trying to put Judah's shoes on right now. They're a little small!
I'd like to start having a few deeper posts, something more than the mostly boring details of my life. Here's a start:
U2's Bono recently received the NAACP's Chairman's Award for his work to end poverty and disease in Africa. I recently saw his acceptance speech linked on facebook. In the speech he said a few things that struck me. "Where you live should not determine whether you live or die." How true. There are babies born all over the world that have no choice about the economic and political situation they are born into. We are blessed to have two healthy boys that receive all the food and medicine they need. This next quote really woke me up: "True religion will not let us fall asleep in the comfort of our freedom." How often is our "religion" just something we think about on Sunday? I have really been striving recently to make my religion more than just a title. It's transforming my life and my perspective of things.
Here's the link to the piece from the NAACP Awards:
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For the record, I love the so-called "boring" details of your life. :) But your thought about Sunday-Christians really resonated with me. Our church has a huge focus on being Christian 7 day of the week. It's so easy to get involved in the day-to-day grind and forget what your real priorities are! One thing we do that I really love is that we - the entire church - fast (go without food or water) one day each month, generally the first Sunday. Then we donate what money we would have spent on food to the church's Humanitarian Aid fund. It's really a drop in the bucket for each individual person, but it adds up fast. According to the stats quoted under Humanitarian Servies on Wikipedia, from 1985-2008, $282.3 million in cash and $833.6 million in aid commodities of aid were donated to 167 countries. Pretty amazing, huh?!
ReplyDeleteI like your new blog layout...but no new post to go along with it? :) I like reading your thoughts...
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