more Emmadotes...

My little girl just cracks me up.  She says stuff so matter-of-factly that she is funny without even meaning to.  Here are a few stories from last week...

Getting out of the car from picking her up from school, I shared with Emma that I wished I had made it to the gym that day while she was at school.  She said, "You should take your school book to the gym so that you get your tush off the couch."

One day while shopping at Costco, she looked up and saw a mattress.  She said to me, almost as a wish, "I could live here.  There's a bed to sleep and I could just eat the free samples..."  I thought, she's right, it wouldn't really be stealing at that point!

The next one really took me by surprise because we don't really discuss this...Last Saturday night, we were driving as the sun was setting.  It was a beautiful picture in the sky, as a huge flock of birds flying.  Emma said, "Mommy, look at that big group of birds.  They look like a big cloud!  They must by flying south for the winter."  Then silence.  And somewhat quietly, almost to herself she said, "Good hunting."  I just cracked up!!

she's too funny!

"Emmadotes"

Yesterday, Emma and I went to Hurricane Harbor as a last-minute-end-of-summer-fun day.  We went on Tornado, which requires a very large raft to be carried.  I had prayed that the Lord would allow Emma and me to ride with another mom and daughter so that we would not have to ride alone.  And also, so that I wouldn't have to carry that big huge thing by myself.  While failing to encourage Emma to hold one end, a mom came up and asked if she and her daughter could ride with us!  (Praise God!)  I found out she and her family were visiting from France.  I had a chance to chat with the mom, who spoke perfect English, about the schools and vacation schedules.  After the slide, I thanked the mom for riding with me and told her that she was an answer to prayer. While walking away from them both, I heard Emma say, "Au voire!"

I asked her, "How did you know to say that?"

She said, "From Barbara Manatee."  That's a silly song from Veggie Tales!  She's too funny.

One more - this morning, Emma was telling me about a cute little puppy she saw at the Castaic rescue center.  She was telling me that it was the cutest little, "2 month year old."  Heeheeeee!

Almost done

The countdown has begun.  Only 10 more weeks of classtime, then one online class and I am done with school!  Currently, I have 2 classes - a history class with Jeff, my brother-in-law, teaching and a Problems and Procedures class.  The P&P class involves a research paper.  I chose to do it on single parenting.  I am surprised at what I am finding.  84% of the single parents in the US are women - not so shocking.  95% of single parent families do not attend church - that shocked me.  What has saddened me was the amount of information that is out there for single parents has little to do with the Creator God or His Son Jesus Christ. Single parents are banning together on the internet and their time together is not being redeemed.

If you know of a single parent who desires to know how to honor God through this trial, please refer them to Robert Jones' Single Parents' booklet from CCEF (www.ccef.org).  You can also get the booklet from gbibooks.com.  It is brief, yet filled with the rich knowledge of knowing Jesus Christ, putting one's hope in Him, and allowing Him to redeem this time, along with very practical advice.

Until the Lord returns!
Shayna

I love my little girl!

I must confess that I tend to be very serious, so the Lord has graciously given me my daughter so that I can loosen up a bit. This morning as we were leaving for school, she grabbed my umbrella. I told her that the weather was supposed to be nice and warm this afternoon. She said,

"That's what the weather says, but God has plans." So she decided to walk to the car with her umbrella above her head. The sun was shining behind her and cast a shadow in front of her. She said, "Look! I look like a stop sign." Maybe it was one of those things you had to be there for, but she continues to brighten my day.

Geneaologies

Last night, after Emma was reading out loud about the Tower of Babel in Genesis 11, she started reading the "generations of Shem," and so forth. I took the Bible from her said, "You don't have to keep reading. Your getting into the geneaologies." She looked at me excitedly with big eyes and said, "I want to read it!" I handed her back the Bible curiously and then realized what she thought. I said, "No, there are no genies in the Bible!" We both cracked up laughing at what she heard.

Disneyland Vacation

Our summer trip this year involved a couple of days at the Hyatt close to Disneyland. We left on Sunday afternoon and the first night was spent watching Disneyland's nightly fireworks from our room. Nana came and we stayed up late with room service ice cream and shakes!

Monday, we spent the day at Knott's Soak City and really enjoyed the water park. That night my sister, Sarah joined us, and rushed through a dinner at Bucca diBeppo's (yes, it can be done!) so that we could make it back to the room for the fireworks again.

Tuesday was a 12 hour day at CA Adventure and Disneyland. Sarah and Emma went on CA Screamin' for the first time! When we first got on the ride, I wondered if I had made a mistake letting Emma on this roller coaster (which is faster than Space Mountain). During the ride, I heard not a sound from Emma and when I looked over at her, her face was frozen and expressionless. I was worried that she would get off the ride, cry tears of terror and never trust my judgment again! However, when she got off and caught her breath, she couldn't wait to go on it again. Even thought she said that she thought her liver would explode, she loved being scared. However, Indiana Jones scared her a bit too much with the snakes everywhere (I forgot about those), so Emma won't be returning to that anytime soon.

Wednesday, Nana and Sarah left in the afternoon, then Emma and I went back to CA Adventure so that she could ride on Screamin' again. We met up with our cousin Tee-tee (Kristy) who also happened to be there, and then spent the rest of the evening in CA Adventure.

Thursday, we went back to Disneyland again. But this time, I was getting sick of Disneyland. But there were a few rides we didn't get to, so we this time we went to Space Mountain, Matterhorn, Alice in Wonderland, the Tea Cups (which we realized is really called Mad Tea Party), and Splash Mountain. The highlight of the day was the little boy ahead of us in line at Space Mountain. It was the first ride of the day for us and a 5 year old boy in line with his mom was screaming that he didn't want to wait. His mom looked at me apologetically and said, "He is used to going through the Fast-Pass line with his dad." She then proceeded to tell me that he had an earache and was cranky because the medicine hadn't really kicked in. I couldn't help but hear her try to calm her son down by saying, "Just be patient." He complained, "I don't want to be patient for a long time!"