Where Ya Been?

Well, no quote today, just a little post. The whole family has been under the weather for over a week. Lots of fun!! The previous quote about my being a walking napkin turns out to have been prophetic! :0 I'll need to be more careful about my quotes in the future!! :P

In spite of this, life goes on. A close friend of mine from college and I have been discussing the concept of an online "small group". I haven't found much out there in cyberspace that claims to be a small group, except for those run by churches for their congregants, which I kind of find surprising, actually.

Well, dear friend lives about 13 hours away, so we thought this blog might be the perfect place for the occasional biblical discussion. We're looking into some topics and books now. Don't really know how it's going to work, but we're going to give it a shot. If you happen upon one of these discussions, you are free to join in with questions or comments. :)

A Walking Napkin

When I was in my 30's, I called it the wiping decade, becase I was always wiping something: tears, bottoms, runny noses, countertops. I felt like a walking napkin. - Stasi Eldredge

I can relate to this right now. Last week my two year old came down with a stomach virus. You don't want to know the details, trust me, but there was a lot of wiping going on. Poor thing.

That storm is quickly behind us, but he has discovered a new phrase, "I cyin", which translated means, "I'm crying." At some point last week, Ian became frustrated when he did not get his own way. And so he was crying... or fussing, as I call it at those times. I didn't know exactly what the problem was so I kept saying, "what's wrong?" and he responded with this brand new phrase... "I cyin". "Your car?" "Your crayon?" It took a few minutes for me to figure out that the poor sad boy was saying "I'm crying". And he was saying it in such a way that I could tell he thought I should do something to make it stop. So there were tissues and hugs and kisses and all was right with the world. The magic of a walking napkin! :)