So, this may be long. This summer so far has been fantastic. Wake up, cartoons and coffee with Luke, Pool, learning how to eat vegan and plant strong (another blog time), working at at sports barn, gymnastics and swimming lessons, camp, church, lots of fire station time, lots of playing with cars and trucks, learning ALL letters and a lot of sounds., time with sweet friends, conversations, sleep, movies, home time, date nights, craigslist selling, lots of reading....glorious.
I was going back through my journal today since school got out, and here is a collection of verses and quotes that I have read this summer that I am trying to take to heart. Main themes in the books? BOYS, MARRIAGE, JOY, LOVE, FAMILY.....you know.....life stuff.
We are happy. Eager. Learning.
Jeremiah 24:7 "I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the Lord. They will be my people."
Psalm 18:7 "My heart LEAPS for JOY!"
John 15:11 "I have told you this so that MY JOY may be in you, and that YOUR JOY may be complete!"
"The night MAX wore his wolf suit.....his mother called him "WILD THING!" Maurice Sendak
Plato: "Of all animals, the BOY is the most unmanageable, in as such as he has the fountain of reason in him not yet regulated."
(hiking at Sunset Rock, Lookout MTN)
G.K.Chesterton "Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what it was. A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been the boy."
Madeline L'Engle "All of life is a story."
2 Chronicles 16:9 "For the eyes of the Lord range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him."
(helping daddy clean the squad)
(sweet time with cousin Layla)
Psalm 24:1 " The earth is the Lord's and everything in it" (my adorable niece Layla)
(teaching Layla fun new toys)
(Let the building begin!!!!! We love these! Magformers!)
(Bebe and Luke went to "camp". He begged me to go all summer so I finally caved and put him in Gymnastics camp at the Sports Barn. He LOVED it. He said, " Mommy, this big boy at camp told me I am a little boy. BUT, I'm not anymore. I went to camp."
Traditional Nootka Song "You, whose day it is, get out your
RAINBOW colors and make it beautiful."
(Fourth of July turned south for us as Luke had an inner and outer ear infection. So we came home WAY early from the lake, and just played indoors for a WEEK. UGH. we got a little stir crazy!)
"Having something to fight for puts everything into perspective"
(Tim has had a LOT of fires this summer. These pics were from my paramedic friend that was on the call. )
Deuteronomy 32:30 "One can put a thousand to flight, but two can put ten thousand to flight"
(Tim on the ladder to go work the hose)
(Luke's favorite beyond favorite song...) "How GREAT is OUR GOD!"
Below: My 4th of july ear infection guy....no energy to smile. We did, however, get to see two sets of fireworks from my deck right here in my pj's in North Chattanooga. Yay for unexpected blessings.
John and Stasi Eldredge "Companionship is far more the actual brick and mortar of two lives lived together. Companionship is the glue that allows a marriage to make it, not just through the hard times, but make it in the sense of finding your way to comething rich together. "
David Wilcox "We cannot trade empty for empty...we must go to the waterfall.....for there's a break in the cup that holds love.....inside us all.
I could eat this kid up.
Playing with banana grams has been a favorite. Luke got really mad at me the other night. "Mommy, I can't read these words! I need to know how to read N O W ) (melts my little teacher heart)
(playing princesses with Mary Susan)
Psalm 62:1 "My soul finds rest in God alone."
Seneca " As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters."
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