Clearly, I am no longer in the habit of blogging regularly, and will try to do better in the future. But for now, here are a couple recent conversations I've had with some of my children.


One day last week I noticed that Annie had a half-full fruit punch drink in the fridge. I also noticed some red puddles on the floor near the fridge. Could have been her, could have been one of the other kids. I called her into the kitchen and asked her about. She said that she did not make the mess so I told her that she could go back to whatever she had been doing. I went around the corner to get some disinfectant wipes from under the bathroom sink, and when I returned to the kitchen, she was down on the floor with some wet paper towels cleaning up the mess.

I smiled. And then began looking at other spots on the floor, I joined her in the cleaning. After a minute she said, "A few weeks ago in Sunday School we had a lesson about how if someone takes your coat you should give them your shirt too. I think it was one of those 'Do to others what you want them to do to you' kind of lessons."

I smiled again and said, "You mean kind of like when someone else makes a mess and you decide to help clean it up?"

She grinned, "Yeah. Something like that."


And this is the conversation that took place in the back seat yesterday when I took Max (almost 5) and Noah (3 1/2) with me to run some errands. It started with them talking about video games and how the characters "die" in the game.

Noah: Well, if you die in real life, BAM, you go straight to live with God.

Max: Yeah, and you get a new body with new eyeballs, and new ears, and a new face, and a new arms and everything.

Noah: And new hair?

Max. Yep. And then you become invisible.

Noah: No, you don't become invisible if you get a new body and new eyeballs and everything.

Max: Yes you do. Because when you die, God comes down and takes your spirit to heaven with him. And God is invisible so if we go live with God we must be invisible too.



My kids are awesome.