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Beth is such a smartie.?? She knew that it would please me if she looked the part so she began to lick her paws for effect.?? Wasn’t that so thoughtful of her??? :)?? And Luke…another great example of why I think smile pictures are over rated.?? Gotta love a good pout.?? Folks – I would say the Fall pictures were a success (if I do say so myself LOL).?? Now cross your fingers for Tori, Tanner, and Ty this week.?? I haven’t managed to schedule them in yet.??<\/p>\n
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Prayer requests today:<\/p>\n
1.?? Tanner is having dental work tomorrow and they will be using laughing gas.?? That scares me.?? Please pray that all goes well for him.<\/p>\n
2.?? Tori is sounding croupy when she cries.?? Praying it doesn’t develop any further.?? Babies with croup are so scary.??<\/p>\n
There are a zillion reasons why I am in love with my husband.?? Here is one:<\/p>\n
Before we had kids, Jim and I dreamed a lot about being parents.?? I remember one particular talk we had beside Lake Pleasant years before Tanner came.???? While I don’t remember all the details of the conversation, I remember enough of it.?? My husband made it abundantly clear that day that if he ever had the blessing of being a Daddy – he would own the role.?? He has made good on that.?? Putting the boys to bed has always been Dad’s job.?? It was never discussed or agreed to – just something he started doing very early on.?? Brush teeth, prayers, and then story time with Daddy.?? The boys rarely ask me to be involved.?? They don’t like my stories as much.?? I don’t tend to relay tales about squirrels with machine guns.?? :)?? (True story – imagine the laughter in this household when a commercial came out with a squirrel and a machine gun after the fact).<\/p>\n
Tonight though, the boys asked me to read a story because Daddy had disappeared from view.?? Not knowing what Jim was doing, I grabbed a book and cuddled in bed with them to read Jack and the Beanstalk.?? I was just about to start when Jim walked in and asked me what I thought I was doing.?? :)?? When I told him we had picked “Jack and the Beanstalk” he said “Oh no.?? The boys are ready for a big boy story tonight.?? We are going to start reading Old Yeller.”?????? Ten years ago if I had to visualize my dream future I just know it would have included a still frame in my mind of a Daddy and two little boys huddled in a bunk bed reading this old familiar classic.?? Tori’s drinking her bottle beside me in her glider (yes she can feed herself – has been doing that for at least a month – and yes she is still in our bedroom).?? All is right with the world tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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