It's been a while I realize, but I have been out of town and had no internet to be able to update this. I will do so now however.
It was a rather busy four days at the end of last week for me and a group of 20 youth and three other adults as we went to Rock the Desert way out in Midland (home for me if you didn't know). It was a great four days, but I am glad to be home. We spent three days out in the west Texas heat and wind and listening to various Christian music artists ranging from The Devil Wears Prada to Casting Crowns and much that falls in between as well. It is a very long trip though (about 7 1/2 hours) that feels even longer in a bus with little to no A/C. I will probably post a Top 10 list over on The Bull's Horn later this week about what I really learned from Rock the Desert if you're interested. I am extremely glad to be home and to have only one more "trip" before school starts again.
In other "news" Puck has started thinking that everything is a competition. Tonight (Tuesday) after she and Boo had each said prayers, she asked her Momma if her prayer was "good; better than Boo's?" This is not new as she has been asking if we like things about her, period, better than we like those same things about someone else. There's that competitive spirit that was possibly hiding or sleeping during t-ball.
The Brother has a new thing right now as well. If he finds a toy that he really wants to play with, he has started telling us that he wants a bath. This would be in order to get to play with said newly discovered toy in the bathtub. In fact, tonight (Tuesday) at about 10:45 he was telling me that he needed a bath with the Littlest Pet Shop toys. Seeing that it was 10:45pm, we did not agree and he went to bed dirty in his mind I suppose.
The biggest thing however that has happened in the last 5+ days has to do with Boo. I got a text on Sunday afternoon from the Momma requesting that I call Boo once I was out of church in Sweetwater. I called. Come to find out, Boo got a haircut. This was unexpected to say the least. On Saturday evening, she went to a sleep over with three other 8 year old girls. On Sunday morning, she decided that her hair was in her eye(s) so she cut her bangs...short. When she told me this on the phone she said that she now looked like a boy. I assure you that she does not look like a boy. Momma said that by the time church started she was embarrassed by what she had done.
Now let me take a little aside here. It breaks my heart for any of my children to be embarrassed by a choice that they made, especially when it was a choice made out of innocence. She knew that her hair was bugging her and she did what she knew to do to remedy the problem.Yes her bangs are short now...OK very short...but it is really not a big deal. Is it something we would have chosen for her to do? No, but it happened, it was innocent and we move on. If I am able to teach my kids anything it will be to not be embarrassed by making an innocent choice. I try and tell Boo each day that I think her hair looks nice. I want her to know that it's OK, and we still love her, even with out the bangs she once had.
Well I think that is enough updating for tonight. I will be back soon I'm sure with more stories of Where the Wild Things Are.
Grace, Peace and Love y'all.
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