We are THAT Family
[Beginning next week, I will be featuring your yes stories every Wednesday. Please continue to link up helpful links that work for you. I hope it’s a yes or two.]
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I handed everyone at the table a rubber band and told them to put it around their wrists like a bracelet. We slipped it on as we finished dinner and I read these instructions from our dinner time devotional: Every time you grumble or complain, snap your rubber band. The day before we memorized John 6:43, "Stop grumbling among yourselves." Guess who got the first "pop?" My kids laughed as the first complaint rolled off my tongue just minutes after reading our assignment. I ... Read More
I tucked her in bed and pulled up the cozy pink comforter to her chin. "Mommy?" she whispered after prayers were said. "Yes, honey?" I waited. "I am sad." "Really, why?" trying to remember what would cause this statement. "I'm sad I don't have my own iTouch like my friends." SAY WHAT? "A lot of my friends have them and iPhones, too," she said as she rattled off half her first grade class. "Why do you want one?" I asked, even though I could have guessed her answer. Because ... Read More
It was the first day of summer in 1984. He was 14 years old. His dad woke him up before work and said there's a load of sand in the driveway and shovel. He told him by the time he got home from work, he wanted the low spots in the backyard filled. There were similar projects all summer long. That's how my husband was raised. (I was raised scooping dog poop in the hot Texas sun, so don't feel too sorry for him.) There was also summer fun for both of us -bike riding and baseball ... Read More
