Extraordinary Faith for Everyday Life
That really happened to me this week. Heather and I are standing in the aisle at CVS and she’s flipping through the new Rejuvenate magazine and was all, "Hey, that’s you!" If you didn’t know, my friend is (was) the editor of the magazine and asked me and the girls to be in the second issue last year. This is the same picture as one in the first magazine so I guess they just used it. No one even told me to expect it. Fine with me though, I’ll take a celebrity moment as a surprise.
She’s on a roll this week….Lexi showed us a scratch from school right before we got out of the van and this was the conversation on the walk in the house.
Emma: How’d you get your scratch?
Lexi: Because.
Emma (confused): Don’t say because, say why!
Lexi: Why.
OK, I keep wanting to share this and I keep putting it off. I have truly been blessed while reading the Bible every single day for the last month as part of my Read the Bible in 90 Days endeavor. I’m currently in 2 Chronicles and I have just been amazed at the history of the Israelites and how much I really didn’t understand before reading it. The one question that I’ve had answered (among many) may lead people to believe I’m an idiot but nonetheless, I didn’t understand…who in the world were the Israelites?
You can read a ton about them on the Internet. It doesn’t take a genius to read up on it but here are the basics. Please, please, please correct me if I’m not saying something right but this is my understanding as of now.
But the short of it is the Israelites are Jac0b/Israel’s descendants.
Right, wrong?
Am I the only person on the planet that never really understood who the Israelites where and why they were in Egypt to begin with and what that had to do with Abraham?
Another very long day today. Made some decent progress while at work and more importantly enjoyed a donut at breakfast and Flo’s Filet at lunch. Yes, that is why I really go to the office. The food. It’s all about the food.
After getting home, Scott was off to work and I quickly gave into Emma’s request to go to Taco Bell. I was still stuffed from lunch though and only ate some nachos. After that, we made stops at Blockbuster and CVS.
This evening I spent time on one of the web sites I’m working on and then have been Interneting while watching a movie.
And now here it is almost midnight again and I’m struggling to keep my eyes open. And I still have my Bible session to finish. I guess I better go get started. Can you feel the enthusiasm?
Lexi is at such a great age for funny stuff. Have two today.
We missed a birthday party of a girl in Lexi’s class this weekend and I wondered if I mentioned a few names whether she’d pipe up and tell me we’d missed the party. So I was trying to get info from Lexi about what kids were at school. I asked her about the little girl K whose party we missed. And here’s the convo
Me: Was K at school?
Lexi: No.
Emma: Was she at the doctors or did she go on vacation?
Lexi (very matter of factly): She went on vacation to see the doctors.
Wow, what a bum vacation.
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Emma and Lexi are sitting on the recliner after their baths right now and this is the convo I hear:
Emma has the detangler posed right at her mouth and getting ready to spray and says: Yeah, do it like this, it will taste good, I promise.
I see the situation and intercept: Emma! Don’t spray that in our mouth! It will make you sick!
Lexi: Yeah, Emma, don’t do that. *pause* I will get a baby in my tummy. A real one.
Sunday was another really busy day. Church, dinner, youth council meeting, CVS trip, Super Bowl party. Can I just say I missed the Giants big win? I got in the shower at 1:30 left assuming the Patriots would win and even thought to myself I bet I miss a big upset.
Today I’m going into work…can’t post there so I’ll be back on later tonight.
Lexi surprisingly gave up her pacifier last year but has asked for it a few times since. Tonight was one of them. Lexi was crying in bed tonight and had her blankie up at her face and then the conversation went like this:
Lexi (still crying and whining): Paccc-eeee!
Me: Paci? You aren’t a baby anymore, silly!
Lexi (very dramatic and still crying and very serious): I’m crying like a baby! I’m a baa-beee!
Poor thing. I couldn’t help but laugh. I guess we’ve told her to quit crying like a baby a time or two.
Tonight was a good night. I tried to buy every monthly deal Crystal mentioned but they were out of a few of them. Here’s how it went down:
Precision Diabetes Monitor
5 Chewable Baby Aspirin (the add says Children’s but the box does not and it works)
3 Nutri Gum
2 CVS Fabric Softener
Revlon Nail Polish (50% off)
2 Garnier Face Cleansers (a deal from this week–we found the tearpad while we were there)
Used $2 CVS Revlon coupon
Used 2 $2 Garnier Tearpad Coupons
Used $2.50/10 CVS Pain Reliever Coupon
Used $41 ECBs
Total oop .48
Savings today were $128
Earned $49.81 ECBs
FYI, Scott says the Nutri Gum is very tasty.
