Easter Sunday!

Happy Easter!

Nooooo!

Mama:  Lee Lee, is it time for a bottle?

Lee Lee:  Ya!

Mama: And is it night-night time?

Lee Lee: Ya!

Mama:  Okay, let's go do that.

Lee Lee:  NOOOOOOOOO!

Good Friday

So often we are happy it is Friday and we tell each other to "Have a good Friday."

But the truth is, there has only been one GOOD Friday.

Men Working Hard

Our men were working hard yesterday evening before dinner... Daddy on his computer and Howard on a picture find page (similar to Where's Waldo).  He found every hidden item in the chaotic picture.

 

Find Joy

Great thought for today... and every day.

 

In Less Time

When you know how to do something, it can be very simple.

Tracey has had a beautiful dress with a split in the seam for two years.

We bought the dress second hand and one of the first times she wore it, I noticed the split.  The dress seam was attached at the top and at the bottom, but just had the split in the middle portion.

The dress had a flowery overlay, so the split doesn't even infringe on the modesty of the dress... it just gets caught on things. 

For YEARS I have been meaning to just stitch up the seam by hand. 

Finally yesterday I looked at the dress... and called my neighbor.

My wonderful neighbor made all of our costumes for the church Christmas Pageant herself and I was pretty sure she could stitch up this seam with minimal effort.

I asked if I could trade her her sewing services for a batch of cookies.

She of course said it would be no problem and I didn't have to provide cookies.

The kids and I dropped off the dress at the neighbor's house and then walked to our mailbox to get the mail and walked home.

BEFORE WE GOT HOME -- we were still half a block from our house, our neighbor had sent her daughters back over with the fixed dress.

She repaired that dress in less time than it took me to walk to the mailbox with my kids.

Some things really are simple if you know how to do them.

Lee Lee Girl

Our little Lee Lee Girl is almost 18 months old and she has more sass than I remember any of our other children having at the same age.  She is also tougher and more adventures than any of my other children were at her age.

She could say "ya" pretty early -- around a year of age she started saying "ya" when we asked her a question.  Just recently, she has started saying "no"... but she says it, "NOOOOOOOOO."

She rarely wants to be carried -- she wants to walk any chance she can, and she wants to go in her own direction.

Tracey always wanted us to come with her whenever she wanted to explore. 

Howard followed everywhere Tracey went... and no further.

Caroline would only hold our hands and never explore on her own.

Lee Lee is headed for uncharted waters any chance she can.  She is leading the way and she hasn't a care in the world as to if we follow her or not. 

She is very independent and tries to do any chores that I ask the big kids to do.  When the big kids want to go outside, I usually tell them to get on shoes and coats and they can go outside... while the big kids hem and haw or argue with me about wearing a coat... little Lee Lee just toddles over to get her coat and shoes and happily brings them to me so she can go outside.

The other day, she brought me Caroline's coat.  So, I put her shoes on and then found the coat that fit her.  Addallee was okay with wearing her coat... but was insistent that she was also going to wear Caroline's coat.

She was so happy to be wearing those two coats and able to go outside and play with her brother and sisters.

I can't wait to know how God is going to use her independent and fearless personality.