I can’t remember a stage of Eli’s life where he hasn’t loved lights. From very early on, I noticed that this little boy just couldn’t get enough of them. I’ve always thought it was extremely cool, too, how the Lord placed this little boy with such a love of lights in the middle of Christmas Town…what better place could there be, right? Anyway…now that it’s the spooky time of year again, we’re taking walks around our neighborhood to see all of the lit jack-o-lanterns and cute string lights hanging around. And…we’ve got several “jacks” sitting around in our house. We’ve got a “Jack”, a “Big Jack”, a “Little Jack”…about any “Jack” you can imagine. Two of them hang around and glow in E’s bedroom at night which just thrills him. On Sunday, we spent some time working on a couple of other jacks to add to the collection. It was E’s first time pumpkin-carving and he seemed to have a ball…
I spent this past weekend with some great friends at the Women of Faith conference. If you’re a woman and you haven’t been to one of these, I say you should strongly consider it. If you’re a man and you haven’t been, take my word for it and don’t go…it would be extremely weird ;-) I’m laughing at myself right now, but I feel sure that you’re not and that you're probably thinking I'm pretty cheesy.... sooooo…let’s move on…;-) The weekend included lots of great worship tunes and super great speaking. Christine Caine, from Australia, was one of the speakers and was easily my most favorite part of the conference. Ladies…if you have not heard her before, look her up online and check her out! The story of her life and how she’s used things in her past to provide a future for others is incredible. I’m convinced that the hour of listening to her speak was one of the most quickly passing hours of my life. I really could listen to her all day! I picked up her latest book "Undaunted" while we were there and it's a great read so far.
While I was busy getting blown away by Christine’s message, Jesse and E were busy playing at the apple orchard and talking with Johnny Appleseed. When I got home, E was sound asleep and dirty which told me that it had been a really good day in his book :-) I was so glad that Jesse remembered to take the camera with them…AND, that he even remembered to take pictures ;-)
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