As I sat in the living room this morning I heard Maggie's clear soprano voice singing "Rise and shine and give God the glory glory. . ." It was beautiful and helped me remember how to go through my day. I was also reminded of a few special moments yesterday that I forgot to share last night (perhaps because I had no pictures to remind me of them).
Yesterday morning I went into the girls' room to greet them and Carie started singing "The Wise Man Builds His House upon the Rock." David came and joined as the girls and I sang. When we were done singing we talked about Jesus' explanation of wise and foolish people. Wise people are the ones who hear the words of Jesus and do what he says. Foolish people are those who do not obey Jesus' teachings. I love how some teaching times "just happen."
A little later at breakfast time we read the story of the four friends who lowered the man who couldn't walk through the roof to be healed by Jesus. Afterwards we listened to one of Maggie's favorite songs from a CD we got last summer. Not long after breakfast, David joned me in the kitchen asking me to read him a book. I stopped what I was doing and sat down on the floor with him to read (not necessarily a typical thing for me to do). He had his Lift the Flap Bible. We read story after story. Carie joined us, too, and the two children didn't even fight over who sat where or what stories to read. What a blessing!
In the afternoon Carie asked me to teach her how to read. I grabbed a preschool reading workbook and we looked at "og" words like "frog" and "dog," and then "ee" words like "tree" and "bee." She was very excited and I was too. She's eager to learn to read. She'd also like to start piano lessons.
Well, those are a few of the unphotographed but very special moments of yesterday.
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