A week filled with two birthdays, a visit from family and other Christmas activities is sure to provide plenty of lessons!
- If you are trying to rearrange your overflowing freezer to accommodate an ice cream cake, and yank on a bag of frozen peas that you want to move out of your way, the bag might split, causing green peas to litter the floor, rolling under the refrigerator and into every other nook and cranny imaginable.
- When you realize that your butane lighter is totally empty and you have nothing else in the house with which to light birthday candles, you will be extremely thankful that your hunter husband keeps an emergency pack in his truck with matches in it.
- The amount of food that I eat is directly proportional to the number of sweets in the house.
- Taking your seven-year-old, who loves to shop, on a mission to find a pair of boots (to replace the ones she received for her birthday that didn’t fit) will result in your coming home with two pair since she couldn’t decide which ones she liked better! Thank goodness for a buy-one, get-one 50% off sale and some extra birthday money she didn’t mind spending!!
- It is so worth it to drive downtown on a rainy Friday night so that your family can enjoy a two-hour musical theatre production of A Christmas Carol. Seeing your nine-year-old enthralled by the entire show makes you want to do it all over again!
- It is spiritually rewarding to realize anew that the Holy Spirit continually works in me to grow me into the person that Christ would have me to be.
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Ha! Funny story about the frozen peas! Your seven year old has the right idea – a girl can never have too many pairs of shoes, or boots in her case! 🙂
I'm totally picturing the frozen pea incident and laughing! Not really at you though, but mostly because I can see the exact same thing happening to me!
Yes, I could laugh at myself – later!! My husband called in the midst of my cleaning up the peas, so I had to moan to him about my predicament. Thankfully, after a couple of minutes, I thought of using a wire coat hanger to sweep under the refrigerator and got most of the peas out that way. Of all vegetables, though, did it have to be peas – the only ones I can think of that actually roll!
You'll be finding peas for months!
We have a birthday girl in our house today 🙂
OH, no! Pass the peas, please. LOL! 😀
Praise God how He works in us and doesn't give up on us!