Our family story should be called...

Meetings with Father!
The CEO calls a meeting and the design team discusses the possibilities and then...They're off! Off to...their labors, their mess, their cleanup.
It is fun, these last days of everybody gathering around papa for their instructions. They are each a piece of his mind and my mind. The fireworks and the sparks are contagious and then they come out of the meeting repleat with abilities and determinations.
Now, if I can just get them to work on a business application to all of this industriousness. The cows would be milked and the grass would be straight. Money and Lord willing, that is the next step to this process...
This week they ended in prayer led by Ezra.

When Dad was working and Deaconing and busy and we didn't see him much...

We made appointments on Sundays for you children to spend an hour each with him alone. Your father led you to Christ and instructed you in the word. Read and listened to all of the little stories that you brought to him. We determinedly carved out time for you children, in your father's busy schedule. He loves and cares for you and you can see and feel that. I am grateful that you have him.

If I had my baby girl again. Laments of motherhood.

She's officially a High Schooler. My baby girl is grown. We never played paper dolls, blocks. We didn't read all of the American Girl books. We didn't play enough with the dolls or soccer as oft as I would have liked.
I said none of my girls will go into adulthood, without an American Twist Serve and a silent set. My two skills, greatly cherished. I don't want an American Twist Serve, Mommy. That is what they all say. What has a good serve and volley and a silent set ever gotten you? Good question. The discipline of imitating and accomplishing something that gets you to a goal. They don't understand the big hullabaloo. Life goes by so quickly.
If I had a baby girl again and I have no intention of having one. Blocks everyday and all of the American Girl's books would be the first thing that I would do. I missed it, but she did okay without those injected maternal intentions.