Peter, you have loved me and changed me, you have encouraged me and protected me, pushed me beyond what I thought I was capable and challenged me toward a higher thought. I am honored to be your wife and the mother of your sons! I love you, Baby!
“To love thee Year by Year –
May less appear
Than sacrifice, and cease –
However, dear,
Forever might be short, I thought to show –
And so I pieced it, with a flower, now.”
~Emily Dickinson
A note I took down last week:
1.6.08
“As I am studying on narration, Jerome is drawing on his antler sprawled out on the floor and Seth sits quietly at the table drawing tiny detailed shapes with my pen. I hear paper being swished back and forth on the table and Seth says “Look Mommy, lines!” I look over and he’s moving his paper in the shadows of the blinds cutting the light streaming through the window and falling on the table. I explain to him what it is and continue my reading. A minute later he says “It’s God’s light!” then he is distracted by Jerome’s loud scribbling and plants his feet in a patch of sunshine on the carpet to watch. He just ran over and a planted a kiss on my cheek.” 🙂
Last night David and Noel were over for dinner at our house and Seth is looking at a big book about the human body and studying the page on muscles. There was a drawing of different facial expressions illustrating facial muscles, one frowning, one smiling, and one singing. David asked Seth “Why do you think he’s frowning?” and Seth answered “Because his head is off!”. He was right, it was only a head. 🙂
“Look! I drawed a refridgerator and milk! He’s going to get it out for his mommy. He’s strong! Like God! And emeny!” 1.4.08
When Seth was sick with the flu he said in a very faint voice with long pauses: “Mama, I need something. Um, I need a shower. A toy one. Yes, today.” (?)
This one is Jerome’s: Yesterday as we were in the car with Anna her radio was on and she asked the boys “Who can tell me what instruments they hear playing?” Jerome immediately throws his hands into he air and yells “ipod!”. 🙂
And just this evening Seth and Ian were playing around on the floor and Seth put his crocheted hat on Ian’s head and said “Look! He’s a winter baby!”…he makes me smile!
Anna invited the boys and I to go on a hike with her this afternoon, and as Peter had to study it was a good chance to give him a quiet house for a while. All three carseats barely fit into her backseat, but Peter got them in there!
Jerome said Sage Ranch was too long of a hike, and I agreed with him as they’d had a full day already getting to the Grand Prix “right after breakfast”! 🙂 It was a warm and glorious day, but we could see snow on the mountains in the distance!
Seth took quite a bit of coaxing to keep up with us as it was pretty much all uphill for the first half of the hike, but Auntie Anna had an I spy game for them to play, and then she played hide and go seek with them at the top, too! She’s such a fun person to be around, a light in our lives!
She treated all of us to some frozen yogurt before taking us home again, and we got a glimpse of the sunset as we turned into our drive. Thank you so much for the fun times, Anna!
This was Jerome’s first Grand Prix…boy, was he excited! Daddy helped him make his race car, ok, he made it for Jerome with some suggestions. The anticipation has been visibly mounting. The wheels got on just last night, they were oiled just this morning, but the “Speed Demon” (which it came to be called by the judges) was weighed in just in time for the races! His car was easily winning or coming in second on each run and he would have won except it jumped off the track on the last race! Sweet Jerome was thrilled to get a first place award for Design, although his Daddy and I think it was a consolation prize. 🙂 Peter used to make his own cars for the Grand Prix and Jerome enjoyed hearing about his Daddy’s race cars. This was a fun day for both of them!
“Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith…”
(Hebrews 12:1,2)
“My Lord, I pray that through today
I may walk patiently,
Forgetting not that Thy dear hand
Is leading me.
I know not what Thy wisdom, Lord,
May choose for me today;
What the long hours may hold for me
I cannot say.
I only know that I may go
Unquestioningly with Thee,
Remembering that what Thou wilt
Is best for me.
For Thou, O Lord, canst see the end,
While I but see the way –
Help me to walk it patiently
Throughout today.”
~Grace Noll Crowell
