A Spring of Joy

Glimpses of our world…

  • Who Is Uncle Donald’s?

    Some of my favorite mix-ups that Micah says… or just plain ol’ cute attempts:

    McDonald’s: Uncle Donald’s (this is because Asher calls it Old McDonald’s)
    breakfast: breakist
    oatmeal: hotmeal
    Audrey: Audwe Abekah and/or Audwe Webekwah
    wrinkly: hankely
    ointment: oinkmenk
    Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo: Biddi-Boddi-Booodi

  • A Boy’s View of Daddy’s Love

    Asher was drawing people the other day, and he drew a picture of Brian. Then he drew a big heart on his chest and said, “See Mommy, I drew Daddy’s heart. It’s so big because he loves me so much.” Sweet boy.

  • Praying For Baby

    One day I was putting Audrey down for her nap, and she’s hit that stage where she doesn’t ever want me to leave her, so she was crying. I was up with her, standing and swaying, and trying to calm her down. I heard someone talking behind me & turned around. There was Asher lying on the daybed in her room, eyes shut, hands folded, praying for Audrey to “go to sleep quickly so that she could grow up to be healthy and 4 1/2.” It was so sweet! Then when she calmed down and I could put her back in bed, Asher said to me, “Look Mommy, God is already working in her heart.”

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  • Naptime Musings

    Micah has such a hard time napping in the afternoons. There are just too many toys to play with and too many fun places to go in his mind. When tucking him in one afternoon, Micah looked me intensely and said, “Mommy, my bed is a rocket ship! I am going to fly to the moon and take my nap.” So I told him, “Okay!”, tucked him in and left him. A while later I heard thumping and went to check on him. There he sat in the middle of his room and when he saw me, he quickly jumped back into his rocket ship saying, “I had to make sure the moon was safe.”

  • Wasps!

    We had a wasp in our house the other day, and Micah wanted to play with it. Crazy boy! I told him we couldn’t play with wasps because they might sting us. Micah sat there watched the wasp and said, “If I play with the wasp, he will sting my hand. Then he will take my finger outside and throw it over the deck. Then I can go outside and find my finger. I’ll put it back on my hand and it will be all better.” Oh, to be in his mind for 2 seconds!

  • 100 Babies

    This morning’s breakfast question makes me tired just thinking about it.

    Asher: Mommy, I want you and Daddy to have 2 more babies so we can be seven people like the Slaters.
    Me: Well, we’ll see… one at a time.
    Asher: No! Can we have 100 babies?!
    Me: (I just started to laugh)
    Asher: Then we’d have to have a HUGE house, like I’ll have in heaven, because God is going to give me a mansion in heaven!

  • You Can’t Hear God Talking

    Well, I got another dose of challenging questions from Asher yesterday. He was being very disobedient, so i sat down with him and talked to him, telling him how he needed to obey Mommy.

    Asher: Who says so?
    Me: Well, God says, “Honor your father and mother.”
    Asher: No, He doesn’t. You can’t hear God talking.
    Me: But the Bible is God’s Word and that’s how God talks to us.
    Asher: But heaven is too far away to hear Him.
    Me: Well, He gave us all we need to know in the Bible.
    Asher: Why doesn’t He just talk back when we pray? Then He could tell me to obey you and then I would.
    Me: (opened the Bible to Ephesians 6 and explained how the Bible is the way God talks to us and how He says for children to obey their parents.)
    Asher: But why did God give me parents?
    Me: Well, to help us teach you about life and about Jesus… to help you learn and grow.
    Asher: Daddy teaches better than you, Mommy. He’s my favorite. (then he holds up a matchbox tank) Does this shoot people?

  • Theological Conversation # Umpteen!

    Brace yourself… here’s the breakfast table conversation from today.

    Asher: Is my heart beating?
    Me: Yes. You can feel it in your chest. (we felt his heartbeat and got this big ol’ grin)
    Asher: Does everyone have a heart?
    Me: Yes. That’s what helps keep us alive.
    Asher: Does God have a heart?
    Me: Well. Jesus had a heart, because He is a man.
    Asher: But does God the Father have a heart? In Heaven.

    ( I didn’t get a chance to answer that one, because Micah chimed in.)

    Micah: Can Daddy be with God?
    Asher: God is always with us.
    Micah: Is God at work with Daddy?
    Asher: Yes, Micah. God is always with us.
    Micah: Is Daddy in a meeting with God?
    Asher: Daddy will be with God in heaven, but not for a long, long time when he dies.
    Micah: Is Daddy gonna die?
    Asher: When he is old.
    Micah: Is Daddy old?
    Asher: Yes. Daddy is very old. But he won’t die until he’s very very old.

  • That Dern Cat!

    While we were praying together during family worship one night, Meelah kept jumping up on the counters, so Asher prayed for him…

    “Please help Meelah learn to obey and not jump up on the counters or he’s going to have to spend a lot of time in the bathroom” (that’s where we lock Meelah up when he’s being bad).

  • Jeeps And Land Rovers

    The boys were playing with their Matchbox cars one day, and this is what transpired…

    Micah: Oh, the jeep is stuck!
    Asher: Jeeps don’t get stuck, Micah. Land Rovers get stuck.
    Micah: My jeep is out of gas. Oh, help me.
    Asher: Here’s some gas.
    Micah: Okay, let’s go!
    Asher: Oh no! My Land Rover is stuck.
    Micah: I’ll come pull you out, Ash.
    Asher: Can we trade? Because the jeep is better!
    Micah: No! The jeep is mine.
    Asher: Please? I need the jeep. You can have the Land Rover.
    Micah: Okay. Here you go, Ash.
    Asher: My jeep is better!
    Micah: My Land Rover is faster!
    Asher: Come on, let’s play yours gets stuck and I’ll pull you out.
    Micah: Help, I’m stuck! I need a jeep.