Let's pray Daddy

I have been blessed with three incredible children, Alex, Adam and Abigail. Alex has now become and adult and is an incredible mother of her own. My two children still at home, Adam and Abigail saw me praying this morning and asked what I was doing. I said I was praying to God for friends of ours children who was burnt badly in a fire and they said, "Daddy Let's Pray" They sat with me and prayed in child like faith and I just know that God has taken those prayers and was moved to tears, they had me in tears. Abigail: "Jesus make all their boo boos get better so that their mommy and daddy can hear them laugh again and I know that you will make it alright" Adam: "Jesus do what you do and all is ok" then they both looked at me as if to assure me that everything is ok because they went straight to the top and talked to Jesus.

God has truly blessed me.

Lord, look upon the our friends with eyes of mercy, may your healing hand rest upon Josh, Danielle and family, may your life giving powers flow into every cell of their bodies and into the depths of their soul, cleansing, purifying, restoring them to wholeness and strength for service in your Kingdom. Amen.

We should skip that one, God doesn't like it!

I look at my children and think how incredibly blessed I am. God truly has blessed me in spite of my life. I have not always made the right decisions or the right choices in life but God blessed me when he gave me these children to entrust them into our care. My life has never been the same. You see I have an older daughter that I was not able to spend the time with and have the relationship that I should have had with her, I was young and stupid and immature but God promised me years later when I "grew up" that He would restore unto me what I had lost and He has. But I had missed out on so much with her and that is why I cherish every moment with these two that I have now, time slips by rather quickly, sometimes too quickly.

Earlier, as I was reflecting on God's goodness in my life Adam and Abigail came into the room and wanted to sit on my lap and wanted me to pull up Youtube on the computer. We do this from time to time and watch karaoke videos, sometimes we will sing along with the people and sometimes we will find just Karaoke videos and sing by ourselves. The kids love this and we all laugh and have a good time. Tonight it was storming outside and the Thunder would make the crashing horrific noise in the sky and did it just as I was singing Justin Bieber's song, Baby. Abigail immediately looked at me with all seriousness and said, "Daddy maybe we should skip that one, God doesn't like it" and Adam responded, "Yeah daddy it was hoardable"

Leave it up to your kids to tell you just the way it should be. LOL

Conned by a 5 year old.

Adam has learned how to melt my heart. Every time he gets into trouble and I am about to put him into "time out" he looks at me with that pout, you know the one with the bottom lip hanging out and he says to me, "Daddy I love you" in a very slow pained voice. And then he leans forward to hug me like I need to confirm that I love him back. Anyway this has gone on the last two days and each time I hug him and say, "Ok, I love you too, next time don't do this or that" or whatever he has done and go about my business and he gets off scott free. That is until tonight. He was jumping from twin bed to twin bed in their bedroom and when I went in the bedroom all the sheets were off the bed, pillows on the floor and the room looked like it had been vandalized ! Needless to say I was not very happy. Then I told him that's it, "Time out" and he went through the motions and I fell for it. I said, "Ok next time no more jumping or you are going to be in time out for a long time, now pick up your room" and when I walked out of the room heading back to the front room I heard Adam say to Abigail, "See sissy it works"

I was conned by a 5 year old.

The sun made him a hot head

Earlier today I told the kids I have a headache. They wanted to go to the park (it was hot 92 degrees) and felt like 100 ! I would rather go home in the nice air conditioning and relax and have a nice glass of tea. While we were debating this Adam and Abigail were both coming up with reasons why they should be allowed to go to the park, " We will be good daddy"; "I will eat my supper daddy" ; "I wont drink your pop daddy" ; "God wants you to take us to the park daddy" I think they tried every excuse there was to get me to take them to the park. I finally gave in, they had gone through literally 20 or 30 reasons why I should take them. I get everyone's drinks ready, put sun screen on everyone, make sure everyone has gone potty and we head to the park. I sit down on a bench that has not seen shade in ages and it was hot and just getting ready took me an extra 40 minutes just to make sure we had everything we needed then I hear Adam and Abigail up on the slide, "Daddy must think we are going to live here, he sure packed a bunch of stuff, let's go home it's hot out here" then they started telling me why we should go home, " Daddy it's hot"; "Daddy I have to go pee and can't go in that box (the outhouse) " ; "Daddy God wants us to stay cool" and they gave me another 20 or so reasons why we should go home. We get home and I finally get everything carried into the house and I hear them in the bedroom, "No Adam we better not ask Daddy to go outside he's grouchy the sun made him a hot head" ROFL