SQUEEZE

The girls and I have been spending the evenings alone this week. I actually kinda like it...don't get me wrong, I love when all four of us are together- but it's been nice having Randall on a 1p-10p shift. The girls get the morning with him, and the evening with me. One on one time (in doses) is always wonderfully pleasant to be with the girls. It's good for quality time, and conversation. Due to that, dinner time can often be amusing, but tonight, my heart was warmed by LG saying- 'mommy, did you know you are going to be a flower girl?' of course I asked why, thinking she was referring to my flower patterned shirt or something; that, however, would be too simple. She then said 'because you are going to be MY flower girl!' What can you do but squeeze them? Then conversation slipped quickly back to who was winning at eating there dinner (my attempt to speed up the eating process). Who won you ask? Pey finished her salad first, and LG her other stuff- so we declared it a tie :)

Do you have a dishwasher? Mine is smaller than my coffee pot; well maybe I'm exaggerating a bit- maybe it's just BARELY big enough to fit a coffee pot (seriously, not much more). I didn't even know they existed this small. It's unbelievable how you cannot even fit a whole meal worth of dishes in there. But did you also know that dishwashers clean a whole lot better (and I don't just mean efficiently) but actually BETTER than hand. Just a something I've observed while washing up our dinner dishes.

As I am putting the girls to bed, I told them a story (they like us to create them, rather than books) and I told them something about them growing up and becoming great mothers, and Pey said 'just like you mommy?' She got a huge squeeze too :)

And for closing. I've loved my week at Baptist. In Boone, I often used to wonder 'what were they thinking?!', or noticing how different people were. I still notice my differences from others here. Somehow, though, this week I find myself reveling in the fact that we were all created so incredibly different. I have come to a HUGE institute, where we all have a common goal of serving others, and making people feel better. I love hearing different accents, different inflections on words, the very different way people view things. Each day, I see and hear reminders that we are all special, no matter what we believe, or where we came from.