prayers

For the last month or so Elie has been singing her before bed prayers. The tune is always different as are the words- sometimes she is just making up nonsense stuff. Tonight her prayer was sung in monk-like chanting and this is what she said-
"thank you Jesus for mom and dad they are pretty cool and make my life perfect so I love them"

The Assissination of Imagination

I went to Target today to find play money for Elie. They didn't have any. What they did have was aisle after aisle of electronic toys, action figures and television/movie/video game paraphernalia. What kinds of empty, uninventive, unimaginative people are we turning our children into and how did I not notice how bad it had become? Even the dolls are motion activated.

Birthday Baby

I can't believe my baby is one. I don't know where the last year went!









The flower for the month of November is a Chrysanthemum. (And yes, I can spell that word without looking it up. Thanks to Anne and Gilbert.) So the cupcakes are supposed to be Chrysanthemums, not the best angle.

My morning commute

Pumpkin Patch

REbirth

So Elie and I were driving to her Spanish class the other day talking about dreams and we get on the subject of Santa Clause which eventually leads to the subject of God. Elie is constantly asking questions that I have no idea how to answer when it comes to spiritual things. Partly because well, they are hard questions and partly because she is just not mature enough to even understand the vocabulary let alone the concepts. So... somehow we got on the subject of the Holy Spirit. I told her that when you ask Jesus to be your friend forever then the Holy Spirit lives in side of you. Elie was thoughtful and then said "I want that. I want Jesus to be my friend forever and the Holy Spirit live with me. How do I do that" (That is almost verbatim by the way) So I told her how to pray and she prayed all by herself and accept Jesus. It was very sweet and I was very proud.


So here is a picture of her physical birthday to represent her spiritual one.

What I did today

So, remember that GIANT zucchini from my garden? I did some baking today to get the thing off the kitchen counter and it took EIGHT loaves of zucchini bread. That's right. EIGHT. Plus, my mom baked four loaves from the same zucchini earlier in the week.



(I realize that there aren't actually eight loaves here, but two were actually muffins. And this picture was taken post-consumption of some muffins and half a loaf.) The muffins and two loaves were actually Chocolate Zucchini bread which was very yummy.