Things I want to remember for a million years:

I swear, there are at least seventy really great things my kids say in a day that I think I should write down but I don't. Here's what I've got swirling around in my head at the moment:

The oldest:
In a discussion about why Christmas is called Christ-mas I explained to the oldest that Christ is another name for Jesus.
A long silence and a few minutes later he came up with, "Maybe I'll just call it Jesus-mas then."

I am dying for him to reply to Department Store Santa, "Yeah, merry Jesus-mas to you too."


The middlest:
The backpack on Dora the Explorer frequently says, "Yum, yum, yum, deliciouso!" The middlest's translation is something like weddisauso- as in, "Mom the quesadilla is so weddisauso."

Quesadillas remind me that he told me the other day that they were out of season and that I'd have to think of something different for lunch.

And just tonight as we were playing a game of Memory (Or Renembory) he made us say a magic word before we chose cards on our turns. With a wave of our hands and a chanting of "Zuckerman's Famous Pig!" we'd almost always choose the wrong card. And then team Daddy and the Oldest would steal our match.


The pink baby:
At nearly a year this girl is a hoot. She's almost walking and has a few words down pat. She knows mommy, daddy, more, areyou? (which comes out just like that-oneword). She has her own version of her brothers' names and loves, loves, LOVES to sneak in their room and play Legos.
She's like the little puppy we've never had (and never will have). She is always crawling around with something in her mouth and she chews up everything.

Rock the vote!

This kid is rad.

They must have done something in kidergarten to celebrate the election because the oldest came home asking if "his guy" was winning and could I please turn on the news so he could see what the vote count was.

I asked him who "his guy" was and he had me name both candidates. I told him that there was a man named Barack Obama and another named John McCain. He said, "Yep, that's him, the first one you said."

"Obama?"

"Yep, Obama."

Really? I thought it was cool that he had his own little reasons for choosing of the two. So I asked him.

"Why is it that you like Obama?"

"You know Mom, he has a really nice sounding name."

Then we turned on CNN and watched for a few minutes to see that Obama was winning the popular vote. The oldest cheered, stole my "I voted" sticker and then went in the other room to play. Got to love kindergarten logic.

A note about our presidential election:

So yeah, I'm not the one that is quick to let my relationship with God show that much. It's there but I'm not comfortable being that vocal about it. Sometimes I get brave but mostly I'm a scaredy pants. But I feel that this needs to be said in light of tomorrow's events.

I know a few people who have a real strong conviction as to who needs to be in office. I'm not like that. I don't really subscribe to any one political party and I feel that the person who is supposed to win will and that God will use that person to do what HE wants to have done. Anyway, I worry about these people (and I'm related to a lot of them) that they might have some serious issues when their candidate is not elected.

Our pastor said something really cool yesterday that hit me. It was one of those DUH! moments; I already knew this but I guess my brain never really formed it into a concrete thought. Pastor George said that we shouldn't overinvest ourselves in the election, propositions, candidates: they are simply mechanisms of governance that GOD uses on earth. Don't worry about the choices set before us. They aren't our only choices. We are citizens of heaven which is neither republican nor democrat, liberal nor conservative. Don't be discouraged, do your best and pledge your allegiance to God in heaven. If your candidate doesn't win, pray about it, dust yourself off and move on.

God is sovereign and He will work things out.

Check out the first 5 minutes of the sermon if you want to hear George's actual words since I probably botched them up in my paraphrasing of them.

http://www.theshoreline.org/content.aspx?id=308

You will probably get this in e-mail form today. Sorry. :)

Will this do for now?

I am attempting to break my non-blogging streak by at least throwing a picture of the buggers at you. More to come...