A shopping cart and a blessing

Have you ever had someone bless you by doing something small and seemingly unimportant? I had just such a blessing this week. On Sunday Jonah and I went to Wal-Mart to pick up a couple of things after church. He parked the car and we went inside. We decided to get chicken from the Deli for lunch but it wasn't ready when we were done, so we decided to check out and I would take the boys to the car. After unloading the food and Will I realized the car was not parked next to a cart coral, now you have to realize that I am really particular about where I park when I am alone with the boys I always park a Cart Coral even if it means parking farther away. I make sure I am right next to one so I can get the boys out, unpack the food and then put the cart away. On this particular day we were across the street form the nearest one. So I was trying to decide what to do- Get Will back out, leave Will and take Jake with the cart back, put Jake in the car and take the cart back, wait until Jonah comes back. When all of the sudden a women comes up and says here let me take your cart. Not so that she could use it but just to take it back to the cart coral. Her sole intention was to bless me. It may not seem like much but to a mom of two little ones it was huge. So the lesson I learned standing in a Wal-mart parking lot on a Sunday morning was there are wonderful people and blessings all around- all you have to do is look.

31 days of Photos

I was successful in taking a picture everyday this month! I know last month I said that I would probably not continue taking pictures everyday this month, but I just couldn't stop myself. Every day's shot is not amazing but each day is a snapshot of our life so they are all precious to me and I hope that you might also enjoy them.

Bibles and Photos

A couple of weeks ago Jonah and I were discussing things we collect. Neither of us really love nick knacks or lots of little things around so it may seem like we don't really collect much, but we came to the conclusion that Jonah collects Bibles and I collect photographs. So here is a photo of our latest bible for you! We went to a christian bookstore a couple of weeks ago, which was a treat because there is not one close to us, and picked up this new story bible for the boys. I am not an expert on Children's bibles, I have only recently even started to notice them, but this one is wonderful. It has bright and beautiful illustrations as you can see and the stories are fun and easy to understand. Here is the best part every story points to Jesus, you can see themes of sacrifice and God saving His people evident in each one. I love reading the stories to them as much as they love listening. If you have little kids I highly recommend this bible.

A lotta lotta TV

Jonah was working late last night so I let the boys watch a show while I was folding the laundry and Will excitedly said to me, "Grandma lets me watch a lotta, lotta shows" "Oh really?" I said, " Does mommy let you watch a lot of shows?" "No," he said,"you just let me watch two and then say let's be done." "How many does Grandma let you watch?" I asked "She lets me watch this many" he says holding up four fingers quite proudly. I had to laugh.
Now before you get the idea that he just sits and watches T.V. all day at grandmas let me tell you that is not the case at all. They do all kinds of fun things at grandma's and sometimes watching a show or two while sitting on or beside grandpa is one of those fun things. I came across a quote that illustrates grandmas quite well I think. It said something like this:
Grandmas are old enough to know the rules, but privileged enough to be able to break them. Isn't that the truth! No wonder we all would rather be at grandma's house and thank God for them!

Off to the Supermonster

Today while Will was playing (packing up his bag and getting ready to "go")we had a conversation that went something like this.
Me: Will where are you going?
Will: Umm to the Supermonster
Me: Do you mean the Supermarket?
Will: No the Super-mon-ster (they like to enunciate just in case I have become hard of hearing)
Me: Oh what do you do at the Supermonster?
Will: Play with Cookie Monster and Elmo
Naturally I should have known this!

Kiss it Mommy

Jake has this funny habit of asking me to "kiss it" every time he gets hurt. A bump to the head, a scrape and today his hands. His hands you may be wondering then why is he pointing to his mouth in the picture. Well that is a funny little story. Yesterday I noticed that Jake kept biting on his hands but when I asked him if his teeth hurt he would say no. Then this morning while they were playing he kept coming over to me with a most pathetic look on his face asking me to kiss his hands. "What did you do to your hand?" I asked. "My Bite it!" he would say. So naturally my response was "Well don't bite your hand then!" When it happened again and again my lightening fast mind figured out he must be getting his two year molars! So I asked him to let me look at his teeth and sure enough in the back of his mouth his gums are swollen with little white bumps in the center. So I promptly gave him teething tablets and some ibuprofen. Boy he has been a different guy all afternoon (I asked him if I could take a picture of where his teeth hurt and he was nice enough to pose for me) So the lesson that I learned from this is that when he bites on his hand look in his mouth don't just believe his word when he says his teeth don't hurt, not that he would lie but he is only 2 for goodness sake!

Baby it's cold outside

It is freezing here today actually below freezing, today's high was -5. I know for people who have lived here a while that is not really a big deal, but for this Colorado Native it is COLD. Story time resumed at the Library today, after a break for the Holidays, so we did venture out in spite of the chilling temperatures but we were really glad to be back inside where it is warm! We are having soup for dinner to get rid of any lingering chill ;).
I have been continuing on with taking a picture a day (you can see them on my Flickr page) and I asked Will if he would hold this sign while I took a picture. He had no idea what the sign meant but I told him he could wear his vest and he excitedly asked if he could also get his hat and scarf (of course he can!)