Try Explaining a Soul To a 5 Year Old

Me- Our souls are what make us what & who we are & our souls are what goes to Heaven or Hell. Our bodies are just something our souls are in while we are on earth. Our bodies are just temporary.
Cj- Are you telling me our bodies are just a costume?!!

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Cj's Sermon

After Bible reading & prayer tonight with Cj, he told me he was going to be a preacher when he grew up. Then he preached me a sermon.
Cj- Adam & Eve, they sinned. That wasn't good. So don't sin.
Did Grandpa ever preach a sermon like that?
Me- Well he preached sermons about Adam & Eve.
Cj- How did Grandpa know he wanted to be a preacher?
Me- I don't know, but when he was little like you he used to pretend to be a preacher. He set up his sister's dolls & stuffed animals & preached sermons to them.
Cj- You know, I think instead I'm just going to be a Batman.

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A Praying Mom

This morning I was thinking of my Grandpa Eastwood. I wonder how many people were helped in some way from his service as a preacher? His homecoming to Heaven must been like that song, "Thank You for Giving to the Lord" where several people would tell him they were in Heaven because of his service. Well, then I got to thinking about his mother who always prayed for him & prayed for him to grow up and be a preacher. That prayer of his Mom's sure did have a lot power. She died when he was pretty young, too, I think. So that prayer was also a protection. I wonder if she hadn't prayed like that, would he have become a preacher?

I believe the prayer of a mother is a serious thing, and so is the lack of prayer. My Mom prayed for me, prays for me still. My life has been so blessed and  protected from those prayers.

I pray for my kids and I will list some of things I pray for them. Although the list changes as they grow older, their life changes, and they needs specific prayers about different things, so this is not a complete list.  I know I could do better at praying for them. So please comment & share with me how you pray.

Prayer Requests For My Kids

• They will come to know Jesus as their LORD & Savior early in life. (After they have come to know Jesus as their LORD and Savior, I pray for them to grow in their relationship with Him.)
• For God to build a wall of protection around them, protecting them from all evil; Spiritual, Emotional, and Physical.
• They would keep their life's pure.
• They would marry the right person, when it's the right time.
• They would have strong prayer life. 
• That God would help them in their school work, and help them to learn what they need to, and especially help them with subjects that are harder for them.
• That they would have good dreams and  have their minds on God while they are going to sleep. (I pray this at night with them before they go to bed. I figure it might help them not have nightmares. If I forget this one, even Cj will remind me. They like this one & the wall of protection one especially. Andrew still asks me to pray those with him. When they go to their Dad's I have to call them before they go to bed and pray it because they asked me to. They don't like to go to sleep without my having prayed with them, even Andrew who's almost 15.)
• That they would choose to follow Christ each day. (Now that I think about it, I think I'm going to add that they would bring glory to God each day.)
• That they would be blessed like Daniel and Joseph.
• When they are older, they would know what God wants them to do with their life's and then they would do it. 
• They would be obedient. 
• They would accept punishment gracefully. 
• I thank God for their good health, and I ask him help them to continue to have good health

Back When

Teaching classes at my homeschool group is starting to make me notice how old I'm getting. Yesterday, I asked the students to share their favorite songs. Got an interesting response when I told the kids my favorite songs were "Breakfast At Tiffanys" (Deep Blue Something) & "40 Dogs" (Bob Schiender).
Student- I don't know that song (40 Dogs).
Another Student- It's probably because it's really old or something. (Then he looks at me, with this well-look-at-her-it-has-to-be-old-if-she-likes-it look.)
Me- It is actually quite current.
I ended up getting out my Evo and playing it for them.

In another class I was telling the students a ghost story (we are studying Sleepy Hollow, so it was relevant.) when I mentioned that I used to listen to this ghost story on *gasp* a RECORD PLAYER! They all looked at me with smirks and snickerings, you could just see the "You actually listened to records, that's hilarious" in their expressions. I told them, "Well, way back in the dark ages we listened to records. Then we had cassettes, then cds." That's when they reminded me cds are long gone now too.

Later a student asked me if I was alive when Jack London was alive. Yeah, that smarted. Got me thinking, "Why do I even allow questions in this class that encourages discussion?". Clearly I wasn't alive when Jack London was alive, I'm only 3-, oh whoopsie, looks like my computer is missing the key for that second number. I'm just going to continue to ignore the aging and hopefully it will go away. Oh wait, that will just mean I'm dead.

My House

Whenever I start thinking about the fact that I'm probably going to have to give up my house I start to cry. I love living here so much with the unobstructed view of the sunrises, sunsets, moons, and stars. I have lived in town before I know it's not the same. I am going to miss those parts of the day, watching the sunrise and sunsets so much. There are many good memories here. I picked this house and it's really just me, it fits my personality perfectly. I love every bit of it. I love the snow in the winter and the leaves in the fall. I love the porch swing. I know that if it's meant to be for me to give up this house, that God has other plans for me, and it will be alright in the end. I know it's just a house. It's a material thing and in the grand scheme of things doesn't matter at all. It's not like it's a person's soul. It's just a bunch of wood and nails. So why do I cry every time I start to think about leaving? Maybe I'm still hanging on to part of the old life a little with it? I don't know. There's just so many memories.

Body Wash

Andy's almost 15.

Andy, calling from the bathroom, while he's in the shower- We need more Scooby Doo body wash. Oh, no wait, I found some Batman Body Wash, I'll just use it.

A few seconds later.

Andy, calling from the bathroom, still in the shower- Hey, the Batman Body Wash and the Scooby Doo Body Wash smell exactly the same. I think this is some kind of scam!

Later....

Andy- I use the Scooby Doo Body Wash because it makes me smell really good.

Mary- I've told you before soap can do that too.

Dollar Tree, Facebook Statuses, and Cj's birthday

Yesterday, at Dollar Tree, you know that store where "everything's $1". It's on the bags. It's on the windows. It's on the sign. It's actually called "Dollar Tree". So it was kind of funny when this dude, I'm just going to call him Dollar Tree Dude from now on, comes on the speakers and says, "Hello Dollar Tree customers, I wanted to let you know about a special we are having today in our freezer section. We are having a sale on chicken fingers. They are now on sale for $1." Yeah, Dollar Tree Dude, it's Dollar Tree they're always $1. Later Dollar Tree Dude is checking out the guy in front of me, who has one item.

Dollar Tree Dude- That's $1.07. Wow! How did you manage that?
Random Customer- I don't know, doesn't happen very often.

Don't know what else to say about all that. Can I just make a ? and move on to the next subject?

Wouldn't it be funny if we all actually spoke in Facebook Status form. Sometimes I do post statuses that are written like I actually talk, but not always. Wouldn't it be awesome if I just randomly started talking at work and told my coworkers, "I was blessed with the two best grandpa's ever, and I miss them everyday, but 6 years ago today I gave birth to a son that I got to name after them both."? If we could speak in fb status, could you also just "like" what people say, you could just go "like". Nothing else just say, "like". I'm going to start doing that. Then maybe you could tweet, too, and just randomly add a hashtag at the end of your sentences. "Diana & Andrew it's time to do your chores, I made you a list. 'Hashtag' AnnoyingThingsPeopleSay."  You would actually have to say, "hashtag", and maybe you would air quote it as well. Also, you would have to say the hashtag really fast, like it's a race. I might just start doing that, too, just to confuse people. I'm probably going to next time I go to work and the guys are going to think I'm crazy. Like they don't already.

This morning when Cj woke up, I said, "HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!"
Then I picked him up, hugged him, spinned him around, and said, "You are on two hands now!"
He asked me all confused, "What??"
I held up 5 fingers on one hand, "Five", then one on the other, "Six".
He just put his head in hand and said, "Oh, no," he says it's overwhelming to be two hands and getting so old.
Don't feel sorry for him, I've already heard him use "But it's my birthday today" to get his way twice.

Death

Cj- Will we be at Grandma and Grandpa's 109 weeks from now? 

Me- I don't know, 109 weeks is over 2 years from now, I don't know what will be happening.

Cj- Oh, you mean because Grandpa and Grandma will probably be dead by then?

Me- Well, no! That's not what I mean. Although, I don't know, I guess they could be dead by then. 

Cj- Yep, because everybody is going to be dead someday, or Jesus wouldn't have had to die.

Robot

Andy- You're not even really a human, you're a robot.
Cj- I'm a human being! I'm not a robot.
Andy- You're a robot we just never told you. Mom wanted to have another kid but didn't want to have to have him the real way so she just had a robot made.
Cj- How could I have been a robot all this time and not even known it?
Andy- You didn't know it because when someone is a robot, they have to be told at the right time. And now is the right time, because I just told you.
At this point, Cj is starting to get a little convinced and looks at me with worry and questions in his eyes.
Me- Cj you are not a robot, I promise.
Andy- Don't listen to Mom, she's evil. She didn't even tell you that you were a robot.