A Sunday Afternoon

We make dessert on most Sundays. Who am I kidding, we always seem to have dessert, but on Sundays I actually "make" something and today we made butterscotch cookies. Yum! One must always eat a good helping of dough before hand as well.

The kids were watching an animated movie about Jesus this afternoon, where Jesus is walking on the water. Hannah wanted to know how he could do that. We told her that he could do miracles and that He had a lot of faith. In all seriousness she said, "I wish I had more faith like Jesus". Oh me too Hannah. Me too. I'm so happy to see her faith is growing.

This jar of bubblegum has been my saving grace with potty training lately.

We are not completely over this hump yet, but Thank You! Thank You Grandma Rietfors for this treat. It's the best thing working for Nathan & Abigail at this time.

I discovered tonight that it is 100x's more hard to get the kids to bed when Aaron is home than on those nights that I put them to bed myself. Daddy is more fun, more playful, and much much much more of a pushover than I am. Wouldn't have it any other way and would still always have him home for bedtime than to trade it for those nights of doing it myself.

I'm trying to help Nathan expand his prayers. He never says anything more than "thank you for the food" and does not like us to prompt him to say anything more. This is his dinner prayer, family prayer, personal prayer. Doesn't matter. Tonight I really encouraged him to say more. Even talked with him before hand asking him what he loves and what he is thankful for. He came up with this.  "Heavenly Father, thank you for my sisters, my friends, and my cow flashlight and it's batteries". I'll take it! It's a step in the right direction.

Days like today are my favorite!