OK! I am going to try and be consistent and faithful with this blogging thing. I love hearing about and learning about others lives and want to be as transparent with mine as I can. Right now I am insanely tired. I will tell of my day and then I will go over what is the coolest thing that happened. I have had a normal morning beginning at 5:30 with some quiet time, craziness of getting both children off to school with the usual complaints and frustrations, packed lunches, make breakfasts, collect homework, fight with Brooke over brushing hair (which she refers to as having a hairdo) , protests of not wanting to go to school, collective breath as they are both gone, a morning off of work which allowed for a wonderful and long conversation with my husband (which we rarely have time for), time with my sweet Parker trying to get him to walk!, organizing of Christmas presents and figuring out what is left to buy, pick up at preschool and carpool with two other children, poopy in the pants, delivering forgotten tuition check, and then the most amazing converstation with a Mormon friend I have been praying for for two years with kids running around wildly, lunch at Taco bell for me b/c no time to fix myself lunch, feed my baby lunch, put my 4 year old to sleep for his afternoon nap by driving around town which is the only way he will fall asleep but I cling to the hope that he will continue to nap until he is 10, hurry to try and hide the Christmas presents before the kids see them and find out that Santa is not real, another amazing and longer conversation with my Mormon friend, time with a new friend from the Patio at a coffee bar for community and fellowship, then work for three hours at the same coffeebar on the laptop and now blogging! What an amazing day but not nearly as full and long as some!
The coolest thing is this amazing conversation with my Mormon friend if you had not guessed. We met because our children were in Kindergarten and due to health problems in her life she needed help with carpooling. We have become wonderful and intimate friends. I love her dearly and have enjoyed getting to know her family. She has four kids and they mirror the ages of my own three children and love to play together. Brooke at age 7 is an active evangelist. She wants everyone to know of the Truth found in Jesus. We explained to her the difference between our faith and what the Mormons believe because two of her good friends are Mormons and she had lots of questions. Long story short she said something along the lines of the Mormon Bible is bad to one of these friends. I explained to her it is not the Mormon Bible but the Book of Mormon. I explained to my friend how this was borne out of telling Brooke that we don’t believe in the Book of Mormon. This sparked an amazing discussion between me and my friend of what we believe and what they believe. As I had been praying for God let it be a wonderful discussion between friends and not as advesarys. I look forword to seeing what God is going to do in this situation. Pray with me for His Will, timing and Spirit to fill me as we continue to talk. Most amazingly I praise Him for using Brooke to open up the lines of communication so effortlessly in a way that only a child can do!
