Halloween is October 31st TWOO!

The pimples from the candy binge

have gone down and it is trip day. An excited 5 year old will take a bus and see some sights he's never seen before and we cannot find the camera? Go figure!

My Candy-coated 5year old

A supertime at the fall festival, there was candy and games and children and music and fun for everyone. Cotton candy and bags of candy and Emily sang in the choir. Daddy took Ezra around to all of the games he could stomach and the day was chilly and bright. When the sun went down; under the darkness of the night, we sang and glorified God outside and enjoyed His presence under the stars. How simply marvelous to be a part of the Family of Faith!

Its Friday, I am 5, What else is there?

An excited home coming for my kindergarten young man. We must search for the folder and there was no disappointment for the rain delay of the class trip. My class trip was to the Statue of Liberty in the 1st grade. There was no way my mother was going to let me go on that trip.
Thank God for the re-run to the Statue in high-school and senior sisters who cared enough to share themselves and the trip with me.

The Shotput event went famously this morning.

As usual, my heroine, Elyse was accurate in her shotput event achieving a 7.0 out of a possible 10 for time and distance. Every morning it is the one goal to get the children to the bus stop on time.
What a very different mentality it is for us to transition from a system where there are numerous buses to catch and an early and a later on time system to the one bus small town system. Yet, everyday, Elyse runs them to the bus and takes up the underpart of the preparation process and gets the job to fruition. I am busy trying to cram a bit or two of more information into their hearts about God and into their minds about the world and into their bellies to get them through the day and she is the nuts and bolts about what time is it and they must get on the bus Mommy. It has its kinks, but it gets the job done.
Anyway Ezra and his trusted elder brother Ethan made it onto the bus and hopefully there will be no more blue cards today(another story).

One problem with video games

I don't have control over the video games with my Ezra. The video game gives you immediate gratification for a correct answer. That is not good. Correct answers in life do not always have bells and whistles attached. Learn to be right in silence, my boy. We need a video game that shows the development of skills builds into something bigger without the immediate approval.

I missed you last night, Ezra.

You were sleeping when I came home, precious. I was sleeping when you were awake this morning. Daddy woke you guys up from the moon. Daddy had you guys practicing your aerospace 0 gravity activities this morning in the wake up routine. That beats my motivations by a mile. I even woke up to go to the moon with you astronauts.

I used to toss you up in the air and catch you!

You are getting too big to do that to, my son. Like the tennis balls that I love to toss high into the air and catch them. I can't catch you. The spanking that you got this weekend, was a reminder to me that there is effort in getting you where you need to be. The tennis ball cannot be served into the court without a firm contact with the ball.
God's gentle tap on Jacob's thigh through the angel is felt in us all to this day. God sent him sprawling in faith and in direction to the godly seed to follow. Let us pick up momentum in grace, dear Ezra. Let us build upon the history that we are blessed with and ace the world with the strength to accomplish.

Its Not My Birthday, But it is a full moon!

Enjoying the celebrations in the family are Fun!

"Last week, I was the line leader."

It always amazes me how my sons save information for a more convenient time. When they think they have my undivided attention, they pull out the information. This morning's announcement was that he had been lineleader last week.
I don't know if that means he was good last week and had to be spoken to this week, or that he thought he was going to be lineleader for the rest of the year and just realized that it was only a week long assignment. I will have to probe to see the connection with the rest of our lives. At this point, I am just glad that he is still talking to me about the Kindergarten activities. Time flies so fast and the children are always chiming in on his sentences as the baby of the family, that it really takes determination and creativity to tell me something without someone minimizing it. I am always excited to hear news from the classroom. I am not sure if my face showed that this morning. My eyes were still half closed from sleep and my mind was not yet fully in gear for the day. But Ezra was line leader last week!

Grandpa's birthday! Ezra CHARLES- Anthony Walker

The heritage of Charles Walker through Benjamin: