our lily pad...

for me?????

my kids made me breakfast in
bed on their own,
daddy was not around
...so sweet
notice the nicely folded napkin,
the flower, the card (ahhhhh),
wait...whose hands are those
in the food...
was this for
me
or
them???
uh, mommy can
we watch
your
tv...

payback

baby b woke me up
this morning at 3am, of course
i did not actually get out of
bed until 5am to check on him and
then found that his leg was
caught in the crib (ooops...ya know
fourth child)
anyway, gave him
a bottle and then he
was
wide
awake
(i wanted to go back
to sleep) soooo
i decided to scrap instead
which he thought
was cool
until he
just
got
too
tired

soccer moms unite...

fall is here and
the other fussball
has started...
the cheetah girls and
the dragons.

colby even scored
a goal...

kai was an awesome
goalie...

last summer flings...

nothing like hanging out at the
local water fountain
and grabbing a
sandwich for lunch.
we are enjoying
the last hoorays of summer

happy birthday, uncle carlos! (and
we forgot grandma alice on the 1st)

his name is dave

no pictures this time...just thoughts. by and i had a rare evening with just one child tonight (thanks to liz and dean). we hung out on sr and had dinner. as we were walking to our car, a gentleman passed us and then turned around and came back to us saying "can i just ask you something...." of course, in my mind i was thinking "crazy FAN" and got my usual "pleasant" face on...but then he started talking to us and basically, told us he had been looking for work all day and needed $ to put is family in a hotel room for the night, yada, yada, yada, blah, blah, blah...

so, we listened to his story (skeptically) and i was sizing him up in my mind---clean hair cut, middle age looking man with glasses, no ring on finger (yet was talking about his wife and family) said he grew up blocks from where we were yet also said that he had just moved here a a month ago, he was very articulate and said that he lost his house and job due to series of unfortunate incidents beginning with a car accident that put him in the hospital, i asked him where his kids where and he responded at the movies around the corner (with free passes), but could not remember the name of school they were enrolled in which they started tomorrow after first telling us they were not enrolled in school yet...yet, he did have a sense of controlled desperation about him and said that he felt like a fool and was desperate and knew that he sounded crazy.

anyway, i am writing all this to say (a) it is so sad that we immediately go to the skepticism now when people ask us for help (and i know there are alot of scams that are out there) and (b) i am so proud of my hubby, b/c he did help him out but not without first laying the gospel of JESUS CHRIST down for him and telling him that the $ came not from him (BY) but from God and (c) i am not writing it to toot our horn (as the bible says do not let the left hand know what the right is doing) but just to say that God showed us tonight that it is not about us being bamboozled or swindled or "gotten over" but that man's soul was worth more to Jesus than any amount of money we could have been swindled out of (if that was the case). in my mind, i wanted to believe that he (and his name is dave) was telling us the truth, but God's spirit told me that it does not matter b/c he (dave) heard about Jesus tonight. of course, on the way home i was thinking about all kinds of things i should have said to him, but then i remembered that God does not require fancy speeches to get His point across--just people willing to plant seeds for Him. dave did say that he felt like his faith was being stretched while realizing that it was not about him but about God and He does not act just because we snap our fingers.

finally, dave did not "look" like anyone homeless (if you go by the stereotypes that we have in our minds). looking at him, i would have thought he was a business exec on holiday--in fact, i did not even notice or pay attention to him when he walked passed us the first time. if his story is true, it just was a reminder for me of how i walk around with blinders and do not go out on a limb to "see", i mean, really "see" others--i do not ask God to show me who needs a smile or a hello.

anyway, please pray for dave...

now really....

i know this is my
first food and all, but do you
really expect
rice cereal
to satisfy me???????
where is my steak
and potatoes?
don't you know
i am 18 pounds of
pure unadulterated
baby fat?
rice cereal....
geeez...