Humility

Quick thought I want to save somewhere before I forget it:

True humility includes a sense of being loved in your imperfections.

Halloween

We took Jon to work this morning (our other car is getting fixed). While driving back to take Adara to school, we heard a big THUMP, like someone banging on the car. I looked around and saw nothing - no other cars, no pedestrians, nothing in the to road.

"Maybe the trunk is open," I thought, but I couldn't stop right there (I think there were train tracks). Then we heard the thump again, and as I was looking for a place to pull over, we heard three thumps that sounded for all the world like a big scary guy banging on the back of the car.

But no one was there. And I was freaked out. There was still no sign of anyone or anything else on the road except us, and all I could think was that the thumping was coming from *inside* the trunk. We were in an industrial part of town, by the train tracks and there was no way I was getting out of the car at that point. I just hoped no one was attached to the bottom of the car or something gruesome.

But then I remembered the pumpkin. I had thought Jon had taken it out when we dropped him off, but what if he hadn't? I decided that was probably what was making the noise and justified myself in driving home without checking to make sure everything was ok. When we got out of the car at Adara's school, I checked the pumpkin. The stem had broken off from the impact of bouncing around the trunk. But why it would have made three very rhythmic thumps when we were driving down a level street is still a mystery.

Big as a grandma

This is one of Naomi's sayings. Perhaps she heard it from one of her friends. Today as we were grinding grains for bread making, she looked in the bowl and said, "That's as tall as a grandma!" Then she measures with her hand to the height of the ground grain and says, "Grandma's this high."

Baby wisdom

You know how some refrigerators have a place you can get cold water by pressing a button on the outside of the door? Keenan is learning to use it.

It's always nice to have someone motivating you to do the chores you keep putting off. . . .

And on the Naomi front:

As we were walking home from taking Adara to school this morning, Naomi was talking about the toy she was holding.

"I like Dinah. She's a special tiger. Mama? When you have a baby in your tummy, you're stronger. And. I see a red truck following us. Look!! Now there's a white truck following us!"

Darndest things

Today Naomi said, "Every night I go to sleep with panties on, and when I wake up, they've turned into pull-ups!"

Anybody know how to help her continue to develop this sense of humor?

A Walk in the Park

Or a run in the park. . . in the sprinklers . . . and then go home and take a nap for the first time in who-knows-how-long.

And this is Adara on the playground at Kindergarten. The other day she said, "Will you look at me over the wall?" And then when she was standing there on the other side of the wall, she said, "The other moms and dads take pictures of their kids." (She's showing off the Disney princess ring that her friend shared with her.)

Number Two

Creative use of garden produce.

 Seeing the world through new eyes.