Right now I'm sitting here at the computer... (duh - obviously!)... with my mug of coffee and the sounds of Star Wars battle droids duking it out behind me. Yep - Colin is alive and well this morning, apparently not at all phased by his 4:30 a.m. venture into my bed. I can not say the same for me.
But it's hilarious, listening to him make battle sounds and talking back to them in R2D2 noises.
Yesterday, we had a few moments to spare before preschool, so we sat in the car in the preschool parking lot and I let him do his favorite thing - that is, play with every single button and dial in the car.
Pure 4-year-old bliss.
Ahh, the joys of discovery as he put the radio on from RIGHT speaker to REAR speaker to LEFT FRONT speaker, he started flipping through the radio stations and he landed on one that was PURE STATIC.
Just when I was about to ask him to change the station, he stopped and looked up at me and said, "Hey Mom, this sounds just like snow!"
Wow...
what a perspective...
so we sat there for a few minutes and listened to snow.
Battle droids or static... it's all great when seen through the eyes of a child!
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
What happened?
For those of you who know me well, you know that I absolutely love Christmas. Much to my husband's annoyance and my children's embarrassment, I will sometimes break into a round of "Winter Wonderland" in July. I try to tell them that it's to keep me cool in the hair-frizzing-sweat-upon-wakening sweltering humidity that they call summer in Florida.
But I digress.
I admit, I love the smells of nutmeg and cinnamon, orange rind and apple cider. I love the twinkling lights, angels and nativity scenes in all of the stores. I love Christmas music, and I'm pretty sure Duane had written in fine print in our marriage vows that I wasn't allowed to play my Christmas cds until the day after Thanksgiving.
And while I, too, roll my eyes at our local Walmart putting out the Christmas decorations right next to the Halloween decor, I can grudgingly admit that in this materialistic, rush from one holiday to the next without a breather society, that's what stores must do in order to keep their profits in check.
Not that it makes it OK, but it is what it is.
But last night I was driving to pick up a friend from the airport. And as I flipped through the radio, I heard Christmas music! No joke... and not just one song, but several in a row! It's only November 12! I haven't even made up my Thanksgiving menu yet (more on that in another blog soon). And it's not like walking through Target or the stores, who have xmas music piped in, hoping to stimulate your Christmas-spending urges. This is the radio... for some reason that really bothered me.
As one of my friends said, what happened to Thanksgiving? This holiday, which celebrates all of the bounty God has provided us with. Think of the pilgrims - simply thankful for food, being alive, for the freedom to worship God without fear of persecution. The pilgrims came here looking for God, and they found Him. Praise God for that.
So I'm going to try and stop a bit more - and just be thankful. My motto lately (thanks to another conversation with a friend) has been "When God gives you this time, you need to use it!" It can be an hour, or just five minutes. The point is to take that precious time and be thankful...
But I digress.
I admit, I love the smells of nutmeg and cinnamon, orange rind and apple cider. I love the twinkling lights, angels and nativity scenes in all of the stores. I love Christmas music, and I'm pretty sure Duane had written in fine print in our marriage vows that I wasn't allowed to play my Christmas cds until the day after Thanksgiving.
And while I, too, roll my eyes at our local Walmart putting out the Christmas decorations right next to the Halloween decor, I can grudgingly admit that in this materialistic, rush from one holiday to the next without a breather society, that's what stores must do in order to keep their profits in check.
Not that it makes it OK, but it is what it is.
But last night I was driving to pick up a friend from the airport. And as I flipped through the radio, I heard Christmas music! No joke... and not just one song, but several in a row! It's only November 12! I haven't even made up my Thanksgiving menu yet (more on that in another blog soon). And it's not like walking through Target or the stores, who have xmas music piped in, hoping to stimulate your Christmas-spending urges. This is the radio... for some reason that really bothered me.
As one of my friends said, what happened to Thanksgiving? This holiday, which celebrates all of the bounty God has provided us with. Think of the pilgrims - simply thankful for food, being alive, for the freedom to worship God without fear of persecution. The pilgrims came here looking for God, and they found Him. Praise God for that.
So I'm going to try and stop a bit more - and just be thankful. My motto lately (thanks to another conversation with a friend) has been "When God gives you this time, you need to use it!" It can be an hour, or just five minutes. The point is to take that precious time and be thankful...
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