-1-
It’s a Small World After All Though
I haven’t been to Disney World in years, I can still remember the “It’s a Small
World” boat ride, and how could I possibly forget the song?! We went to Disney World many times when we
were growing up. Though we did ride that
ride as many times as we could get our parents to wait in line and go on it
with us, the other quite memorable occasions were when my youngest sister
Theresa was a baby/toddler. We
discovered that if we were on a long car ride that we could get Theresa to
settle down if we all sang, “It’s a Small World” to her. We resorted to that trick many times. Here’s the song in case you want to get it
stuck in your head.
-2-
Sorting Things Out I’ve spent lots of time
over the past several weeks going through things at my mom’s house before she
moves from the family home into a one bedroom apartment. It’s been an emotionally and physically draining process, but it’s almost finished.
I’ve lost count of how many trips I’ve made to drop off carloads of
recycling, items for Goodwill, etc., but there have been quite a few (and those aren’t
half as numerous as the trips my mom’s made to all of those places). Please keep our family in prayer as we finish
moving everything out and as my mom settles in her new apartment, which she
again intends to make a comfortable place for family gatherings.
-3-
What will the neighbors think? There are many reasons why
it’s a good thing my husband is friendly and knows our neighbors. One of them happens to be that for months,
sometimes years at a time, I’ve had one or two carseats installed in the back
of my car, but I never come home for the night with a child. This week, while cleaning out things at my
mom’s I realized the irony that I’d put Disney stuff for Vivi in her carseat,
and the only other thing in the backseat was a naked Cabbage Patch doll (mine
from childhood minus the facepaint I’d put on her cheek many moons ago). With the combination of a carseat with no kid in
it, a naked doll, and my bright yellow “Choose Life” license plates, I’ve
probably got some people scratching their heads, that is, until they meet my
husband a few times, and they find out I’m a nanny.
-4-
Potty Training Protocol Since Vivi has begun potty
training, I suddenly recalled my mom’s story of her first attempt when I was
still pretty young (younger than Vivi is now) to introduce the concept of using
my own potty chair in the bathroom. After
the brief tutorial my mother gave me, she went into the kitchen. She knew for certain I wasn’t picking up what
she was putting down a little later when I came out of the bathroom holding the
bowl from the potty chair and saying, “Green beans?” As in, let’s put some of my fave veggies in
here.
-5-
Funny Kids T-shirts I have seen children
wearing these shirts, and sometimes wish that all kids had such honest phrases
written right on the front of their t-shirts warning everyone upfront. I think the one that made me laugh the most was
when I saw a young boy of about 3 years old wearing a “Potty Like a Rock Star”
t-shirt, as many little ones that age tend to do just what the shirt implies
(to me, at least): they pee all over the place; sometimes, they even get some inside
the toilet. To the right are a few of my favorites:
-6-
-7-
Chosen to
Serve To be chosen to do something special is an honor. By rite of Baptism, we have been chosen by
the Lord God to be his heirs, to be brothers and sisters with Christ
Jesus. As children of God, we have been
chosen, elected, set apart, given a special blessing…and are sent out into the
world to serve.
We’re all given different gifts
and talents which the Lord intends for us to use in order to help others and
bring others closer to Him. We don’t
have to ask whether or not we are among those selected for the Creator to work
in and through if we have embraced the Lord, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit
as the triune God above everyone and everything in creation. If we have accepted who God is, then we know
we are among His children. If we are one
of God’s kids, then…Read the rest of this reflection written in honor of the participants of the Cursillo Women’s Weekend taking place Oct. 18-20, 2012 at Shalom House.
Please keep the team and candidates in prayer this weekend as well as during their 4th day. DE COLORES!
Head over to Conversion Diary, to read Jen Fulwiler's wonderful tradition of 7 Quick Takes Friday.
