Today’s Tip for Spouses…

How many of us really have involved our spouse in our prayer life? I mean, how many of us really take or MAKE the time to pray together with our spouse? I know that’s something that my wife and I do, but we need to be more consistent about it.

Take the time…even make the time if you need to – to pray with your spouse!

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Today’s “Logan” Story…

Sunday night after supper, we gave Logan a couple of sandwich cookies. He’s already got the routine down with those. He takes them apart, and goes straight for that yummy icing. After he had all the icing gone, he was left with two little chocolate cookies, and two little vanilla cookies. So Logan did what any imaginative little boy would do – he built a stack of cookies, and proceeded to cram them into his mouth. I looked over at him and just had to laugh! Here’s my son, with his little glucose Big Mac, and he’s just chomping and swinging his little feet in the high chair – a picture of contentment.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Today’s “Daddy” Story…

My wife had a retreat for her Mothers of Preschoolers group this past weekend, so I had the kids by myself Friday night and all day Saturday. As always – it was an adventure. It started out with chasing Logan all over creation and explaining to my daughter that it was wrong to pick the neighbor’s flowers when they weren’t home. Then we let Logan play in his room while Ashleigh and I cleaned HER room (which looked like a twister had been through). Naturally, while we cleaned Ashleigh’s room, Logan demolished his. *sigh* Corndogs and Macaroni, chasing my son and telling him “no, we don’t climb on that,” and keeping an eye on Ashleigh while she played outside with her friends – I had to come back to work to get a break!

All I can say is, my wife is one amazing woman to be able to keep up with our children the way she does. I mean, she does this every day, and I’m pooped after a day and a half!

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Today’s “Ashleigh” Story…

I’m sure that if you have preschoolers in your home, you’ve had them do things that just make you shake your head and wonder, “What could they POSSIBLY have been thinking?” Okay – maybe that’s just kids in general. Well, this weekend I had one of those moments with my daughter, Ashleigh. It’s the first time I’ve had to deal with the issue, and naturally – it was when my wife was gone on a MOPS retreat. Ashleigh was playing outside, and her friends all had to go inside for supper. So, being the creative little four-year-old, she decided she would make a pretend cake, and so she set out to find the proper decorations. Her final decision – a bouquet of pretty yellow daisies. And so she picked a bunch of them. The problem – they weren’t from our flower bed. No, she had plucked the flowers from our neighbor’s flower bed, and to make it worse – they weren’t even home. Sooooo, I had to do the whole, “explaining why it’s not right to take things without asking” speal, and had to play the hard-nosed Daddy for a while. And girls when they do something wrong – did you know that? Yeah – they feel bad, and so they cry, which makes big, mean old Daddy feel awful. *sigh* Well, I know I did the right thing in correcting her, and she later repented to her friends, so all’s well.

Kids – What an adventure, huh?

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Just a quick update on my fitness program progress - As of today, I've dropped another 6 pounds! For those of you keeping score...that's 19 pounds total. God's really blessing me on this! I want to sincerely thank all of you who have called or emailed in your support! It truly means a lot to me! I thank you for your prayers, and certainly ask you to continue to pray for me. I know that God has brought me to this place, and I can see His blessings flow, so I'm really motiviated! Thanks again!

Have a blessed day!

-Fredly.