When you wish upon a star...

We're off to Disney World tomorrow - be ready for lots and lots and lots of photos when we get back next week! Say a prayer for us! HUG!

The Good Word

My bible has been with me since early 2000. It was given to me by my friend Heather when I was slowly finding my way toward a life with Christ. I was afraid of it at first - treated it with almost too much reverence. I was so very careful with it that I...uh...kind of forgot to read it. Forgot to consult and rely on it. No longer! For the past six or seven years it has been used and abused - written in, written on, and tears have stained the pages. I have post-it flags on key passages (a lot of them in Psalms) I write dates on verses that particularly impact me and even write down what was going on in my life at a certain time. I slip notes with prayer requests for my friends between the pages and find myself reading it too long on some mornings that I put us all behind in the "getting ready" routine. Thank you Heather for giving me the best gift - as I often say, you followed me to Topeka to lead me to Christ!

Goodness!

I am way behind in my blogging. I've composed several posts in my head but something always seems to distract me...you know, things like Facebook, playing Nintendo, laundry, life! We leave on Jan. 21 for Disney and I hope to have a decent blog post up before then! Stay tuned!

Deja Vu

It was like a step back in time, "Funky Town" on the PA system, carpeted seating areas and a young girl in white skates with POM POMs tied to the laces! Yesterday I took Kyle roller skating and it was awesome! It really hasn't changed much since I was a kid, except now there are speed skates and roller blades mixed in with the quads. They still do the hokey pokey, the limbo, the chicken dance and speed races. The concession stand is filled with all the usuals - including the giant pickles I just love!

Kyle had been skating once over the summer on a camp field trip, but I had never taken him before so I was a bit doubtful about his promises of being a speed skater...well, as it turns out he is a speed skater - on the carpeted areas! I noticed right away that he was really skating, not just clomping around like a lot of the other kids so I was anxious to get him into the rink. I learned to walk, then I learned to skate. My dad was a competitive roller skater in his youth (though you wouldn't know it to see him now!) so my brother and I were on skates as toddlers - it was one of the few things that came easy to me. I took Kyle around the rink a few times and although he lost his footing a lot I could see it wasn't going to take much for him to "get it" - all it really took was a friend showing up who was a tiny bit better than Kyle and loved being on the rink - that was it...Mr. Competitive was on his way! I was thrilled!

Of course today we're both sore and Kyle took quite a tumble toward the end - even hitting his head, but he's ready to go again and for $6 for the two of us (including skates!) it's bargain exercise on a rainy post-Christmas weekend!

On another note - today Kyle made the long walk down the aisle at church to profess his faith and accept Jesus as his savior! During the service he had drawn a picture that said, "Thank you Jesus...for all you've done for us" Amen to that little man, Amen to that!

What Christmas is all about!

May you have a blessed Christmas!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Today, despite being...uh...in a mood, Kyle and I had a great time decorating a gingerbread house.  It was a bit of a sugar rush for all of us!

eBay

Man - you can't help but love eBay!  I got this great Land's End wool suit with Talbot Kids shirt and silk tie for...get this...$25!  That's right, wool suit, shirt and silk tie for $25!  Hurray!  Oh, and doesn't he look just awesome?  I'm so glad he still likes to dress up!