Today's guest post comes from my friend Kelly. I've known Kelly since college. She and her husband Joey are that rare couple that everyone hopes to have as friends - Jonathan and I both get along great with both of them, and love to spend time together with their family. Their two gorgeous kids are every bit as fun as they are. We've travelled on vacation with Joey and Kelly while we were in college...newly married and pre-kids...and now post-kids. Everything from camping out as poor college students, to sharing a beach house as parents of wee ones. Lots of fun memories and hopefully many more to come.
I've recently been complaining to everyone I know about the fact that we have to replace our "hail" damaged roof with a new roof. Roofs are stinking expensive now days. Add to that the fact that our insurance seems to think that since we bought the house with an old roof, we don't deserve to get much help replacing the roof. In my frustration over this issue, I began to daydream about just picking up and moving to a new, nicer house with a brand new roof already installed (and come to think of it...maybe a bigger living room, better neighbors, more storage space...my list could go on and on.) Instead of being grateful that our insurance was willing to at least pay one third of our new roof and that the Lord has given us the ability to pay the other two thirds, I was acting poopy and complaining about having to spend all that money on this one project. Until today.
Today I asked Jonah if he loved our house. Very emphatically, he replied "YES!" When I asked why, he began to list off all the toys he liked in our house. He was quick to point out the TV, his games, his room and the backyard. Then I asked him if he would still love our house if none of those things were in it. He said (with a bit less excitement) "yes." Why? I asked. His response - "because we have Jesus." That's my boy. Put all of this into perspective for me Jonah. Way to go. Love ya. (See what I mean when I say my kids both teach and tickle me?)
Read the rest of Kelly's post at www.teachandtickle.com
I'm Starr Cliff. A domestically-challenged mom, climbing over mountains of laundry to bring you my stray observations and amusing stories about my kids. (more)
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