~~~~Heaven~~~~

  Heaven... happy home above,  Oh it makes me feel like a-traveling on.....

Yest. while driving home from the Hosp. after visiting Paul's great Aunt, Cody brings up this subject once again....(for some reason he has really talked about it a lot lately). The first question he asked was..Could Jesus come tonight?       Devon hears this and for the first time it REALLY made an impression on him..he goes...you mean Jesus come HERE tonight???   FOR REAL!!!!! (his eyes very wide, trying to digest this)  I said, "Yes, Jesus could come tonight, we don't know when he will come."  Cody goes and then he would take us up to the sky with him, at first Devon wasn't too sure that's what he wanted to do as the sky is just all blue so we explained some more how you can't see Heaven right now but that in Heaven it's all very nice, pretty flowers, green grass, Cody was sure there would be trees to climb and also made sure Devon knew he wouldn't have to be taking naps up there and never take baths!!!!!

    All this while you could tell this was almost more than he could take in and sounding better all the time!!!!!      But was still trying to figure out why if you bury the people down in the ground, how then will they go up? So it was explained that we just bury the old body and then the soul will go to Heaven and you will get a NEW body!!!

    Jessica was also explaining to him that up in Heaven her eyesight would be perfect as after having worn glasses since 3 yrs old, THAT sounds so good to her!!!   He was also informed some where along the line that up there daddy will be able to walk on 2 good legs!!!!!

    Finally he just falls back in his seat and goes, "WHEW, I'm gonna have to think about that one for awhile!!!!"

         Later on at bedtime I was in the boys room and of course as usual Cody had "somehow forgotten" to hang up his church clothes from the day and after hearing the usual thing of no going to bed until it's all hung up he got out of bed and as he was hanging it up, he proceeds to tell Devon.....and in Heaven, we won't have to be hanging up our clothes either!!!!

    I suppose at this point Heaven is sounding really good to them!!!!

~~Treasured Gifts~~

Last week one day I had a phone call from a dear retired schoolteacher friend wondering if us or the school or someone would be interested in old school readers!!!  It didn't take me long to say that we would put them to good use. So yest. while I was in town I stopped in and this is what she had to get rid of!!!! Needless to say the children have been quite happy about acquiring some books!!

I looked up some of these on e-bay, etc and they were anywhere from $20.00-45.00!!!

Devon thot I should not stop reading until they were all read!!

What treasures indeed!

           Jessica's 11 th Birthday

Jessica's Birthday has been here and gone for awhile already, But it was only last Thurs. that we actually had her party at school it was so busy before the holidays and everything they had going on at school, it was just better to wait until school starts again to do that!!

Somehow her birthday always seems to fall thru the cracks, so to speak. So this year somehow it all seemed to work out to have both sides of the family here, like we have done a time or 2 for the boys!!!  She seemed quite impressed "that ALL these people came just for me!!!"

This year instead of a cake she wanted funnel cakes, which was a very easy order to fill!!!

Usually they take in a small snack just before school lets out unless you happen to be serving lunch that day, then you can combine the 2 which always makes it nice!!And of course as your little treat to hand out which somehow usually ends up being a little bag full of candy!!  I couldn't decide what to take in and then decided to skip the candy and make the teacups instead, surely the sugar content would be about the same!!!

They all seemed quite enthused about the edible teacups~~