Mother's Day

I hope everyone had a fantastic Mother's Day!  I was so thankful that my two kids were able to come for a visit this weekend.

Since Ashley was here this weekend, she helped me in Bible Class on Sunday morning.  Our story was taken from Acts 23 and "B" immediately started thumbing through her Bible to find it.  She found it BEFORE I could even get to it!  Then she went around the table, looking up the scripture for everyone else.  That just the sweetest thing!  As she was finding the passage for the last child, under her breath but still loud enough that I heard it, she said, "I don't know why I'm always the smartest one." It was so funny!  She didn't say it with a bragging or haughty tone, just sort of matter of fact which made it even funnier!

The story in Acts 23 is about Paul preaching and as usual, there is a group that doesn't like to hear what he has to say.  Paul was very bold in his statements and this really angered some of the crowd.  For his own protection, he was taken to a safe place by the soldiers.  Paul's nephew happened to be near the group of men that were angry and he overheard their plot to kill Paul.  The nephew went to where Paul was being guarded and demanded to talk to him.  He was allowed to do so and he told Paul about the plan to kill him.  Paul sent him to the chief captain to tell him about this plan.  So, he did and Paul was secretly taken to a safer place.  

I emphasized to the kids that this young boy was able to save his Uncle Paul.  I told them that it's very important to tell a grown up when you see or hear something bad going on or if someone is about to get hurt. One of the girls said, "But if you go tell too much, then that's being a tattletale."  Something tells me she's been reminded of this quite often!  So, we had to talk a bit about only telling important things and not every little thing.

During the last few minutes of class, Ashley and I helped them make a card for their mother/grandmother.  I thought the cards turned out so cute!

This little guy did the absolute sweetest thing that I think I've heard of from a 6 year old boy. I had given them instructions on making their cards-glue down the green strips(which someone quickly corrected me by saying, "They're called stems."), next, glue a colored square, then scrunch up a square and glue to the center of the flat square.  They were busily doing this when I noticed "P" was doing something different with one of his flowers.  I didn't say anything to him but just let him create his flowers how he wanted to.  

After class, I went to talk to his mom and she said she loved that he made her favorite flower-calla lily.  THAT'S what he was doing!  He was folding that purple square into a cone shape and working so hard to fix it just right.  Mom said that when he gave her the card he said, "I made your favorite flower-a funnel flower." MELT. MY. HEART.  It made me tear up to think that he EVEN knows her favorite flower and then to take the time to figure out how to make her one.  Absolutely priceless!  He is just so sweet!

All of the kids were so proud of their cards and couldn't wait to hand deliver them!  I didn't get a pic of "L" with her momma after church.  Her momma was baptized during services so they were busy with people  congratulating her.

I made a card for my momma too!  She put it on her fridge like every good mom does!

At services on Sunday night,  these two sweeties brought me bags of rose petals!

Their MeMaw has one of the prettiest yards in town.  Beautiful rose bushes that are just loaded with blooms right now.  I hope they didn't strip all the gorgeous roses off MeMaw's bushes but it was so sweet that they gathered petals to bring to me!  As they were leaving church, one of them hollered back to me, "Don't forget to put some water on your flowers!"  OKAY!  

"Honor your father and mother..."-Matthew 19:19