On to the good stuff!
The prize we're drawing for today is the book by Stephanie Morrill. We had a very complicated system of choosing the winner. There were 16 comments (though some were by myself, Kimchi, and Stephanie). I asked my 3-year-old daughter to pick a number 1-16. She so brilliantly said...1!
Congratulations, pinkcombatboots!
Send me an email at raeburk01 at yahoo dot com with your address and I'll get the info to Stephanie.
Have a fab weekend!
Hi Mandy!:)
ReplyDeleteCongrats, Pickcombatboots!:)
ReplyDeleteHey! It's an awesome book :) But that's not what I was gonna say:P I just wanted to let you know of this thing called "The Hat" -- you can dowload it, and it "pulls" names out of a hat. Pretty cool! My Bible teacher used it last year to say what we'd written or whatever -- and you can choose pairs, too -- so we loved seeing who 'the hat' paired us with!!! :)
ReplyDeleteIN A CHILDS EYE
ReplyDeleteI wanted to share with all of you another story, On the first month of school starting, I wanted to be apart of my granddaughters (ALEXIS AGE 6) kindergarten class and production. Her daddy my son David and I went inside the school to wait for the day to start. Among all the busy and children and parents, I noticed a wall of students next to Alexis class. I could not help but notice a little blonde haired girl, that sat down and wanted to share her book with her fellow students. The other kids either ignored her or shunted her away, saying mean things like,your book is ugly and the pages are torn. They turned their backs to her. She put her head down and I seen she was crying. This sweet little girl reminded me of ME, she had not the best clothes to wear, or shoes. Looked as though she didn't brush her hair either and maybe not have a bath as well. I sat down next to her and said sweetheart show me your book, she said it wasn't the book she was wanting to share, it was the picture she drew in the book. It was a picture of her mommy and daddy and baby bother. She said her mommy was sick, and she was in the hospital. I almost started balling, she looked up at me and gave me the biggest smile. I said aw sweetie we will pray your mommy will get better soon ok? she said her daddy said mommy will not get better, well you can imagine what I did. Trying so hard to keep tears from falling, I said we will still pray for her. All of sudden the bell rings and the classes gathered together I went over to my granddaughter and reached down and gave her a hug and kiss, she hollered at me and said I love you grandma... and went her way... I looked around to see the little blonde girl, and across the hall she had the biggest smile and ran to me and gave me a hug and said will you be my grandma too. Of course I wanted to take her home. But we cannot always help everyone. But when I go to the school and I see her we both say hi and she calls me her grandma friend.
The reason I wanted to share this is because, people in general always seem to judge people, before they know them. And in this case you could see the Ripple Effect in a negative way, these children was JUDGING her for what she looked like, wore and owned. The children didn't take the time to listen to her story,obviously she missed her mommy and wanted to show her picture she drew.
Please take the time to listen sometimes, and don't jump to conclusions... Jesus did not wear a suite, nor designer shoes, he shares himself with all of us. Doesn't matter where what or who you are he LOVES every single one of us. He watches over Every single one of us. Seek him he is there always. And on my conclusion our little ones will be trained by what they see and here. Teach them the loving way to act.
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Ruth Blow
oh When I said the little girl reminded me of Me that is what I looked like as a little girl growing up in and out foster homes, and sometimes hand me downs. When my grandmother took us we were very poor. Sometimes wearing the same clothes 3 to 4 times a week. and torn shoes.
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