sabbath, the day of rest. when do we really get to do that? rarely. today i had a great sabbath. A and i went to church and usually we would go out to eat with our friends, but today i felt like resting. so A and i headed home. we had lunch while having a talent show. A is really into talent shows now. today she dressed up in a dress and took a plastic water bottle for her mic, sang and dance for me while i enjoyed lunch. then she sat down to eat. ha ha... after great entertainment, we both went to take a nap. it was the sweetest nap ever. we both slept for 2 and a half hours. initially we were going to maybe go out, but then it started raining, so we had a daddy movie afternoon. we watched A's birth and her early months. it was a lot of fun. i truly enjoyed my sabbath... had great rest and am ready for A to go back to school tomorrow after two weeks of vacation for her.
tonight after i put A to bed, i took my dinner to the tv room and watched the cosby show. (sometimes i let A eat and then i eat mine later after she's in bed, so i could actually enjoy my meal) i watched like three episodes, but the last one i watched i started to cry. i know right... watching cosby and crying just doesn't go together. the first scene of this episode was dr. huxtable sleeping on the couch with rudy on top of him... that brought tears to my eyes. i just thought how A would never fall asleep on her daddy like that... how i wouldn't walk in on them napping together... and for some reason that made me really sad. she really misses him and has been talking about daddy lot... and so here i was watching a daddy with his daughter and i thought of A... i'm sure later on in life, she will find herself in the same situation as me... watching something or some people, which brings tears to her eyes...
after A's bath, A talked about how she missed daddy and i told her i missed him too. and for some reason she told me that she would take care of me since daddy wasn't here... ugh... for her to think that she has to take care of me. i told her that her job was to be a kid and she doesn't need to worry about taking care of mommy. she's too grown up for her own good.
just now she called for me, so i went to her room and she asked me to lay with her. she felt my hair and asked if i took a mandi (bath/shower). then she started to talk about cockroaches and why they look the way they do. i laughed and told her good night and left. she may be grown up, but she's still a funny kid. ha ha...
lately she's been waking up at 5:30. when my sister was here, it was no problem since they played together and i could wake up later. but now that it's just us again... so what's the plan? i put her down earlier, cuz no matter what time i put her down, she's up at 5:30. and now i go to bed earlier too. then i told A that she is not allowed out of her bed until she sees the sun coming through her window, which is like 5:45. ha ha... i bought myself 15 minutes. but going to bed early should surely help.
tomorrow A goes back to school and i start a book study with two friends. i'm excited about this and pray that it will be a rich and fruitful time.
please continue to pray for us with health and safety. pray for us that God will lead us daily in the way that He has planned out for us.
please lift up the people effected by the earthquake in padang. again, my friends are okay, but there is a lot of people that are suffering. please pray for the people that are going to help out and the people already there. please pray for people to be quickly found. 1000s have been found, both dead and alive, but still more to uncover. please pray again for the Lord's spirit to rain down on this area. when tragedy strikes people look for answers, and what other answer than Jesus could be given? please pray!!!
