Making my own lunch

Sam declared that he would make his own lunch today. Check out the meat on the sandwich!

Leprechaun breakfast

Thanks to the homes Sam and Kate built, we definitely had one or more leprechauns visit last night. They were nice to us, but did dye our milk quite green.

Sam was highly skeptical and thought it may be rotten, but Dad took one for the team by trying it first. Whew. As Kate said, "It tastes just the same!"

PS: note the homemade biscuit breakfast sandwiches I made to go with the milk. I'm super mom.

Leprechaun Trap

Sam came home the other day saying he wanted to make a leprechaun trap. When I asked for an explanation, he said he thought we could build a home that a leprechaun would want to live in, and then the leprechaun would make it his home. Think Gingerbread Baby.

I agreed to the plan, quite honestly thinking that it was some book or school craft activity he'd done and that it would likely never come up again.

This afternoon, he was true to his word, and recruited his sister and her friend to help build the home/trap. They worked hard for a long time, and designed the home below. I love a good holiday craft that requires absolutely no involvement from me.

Spiritual wisdom

Tonight, Kate said the prayer before dinner. We all have our pretty standard way of doing this, but tonight Kate branched out a bit on her own.

"Dear God," she started, " thank you for our food. And pray for Daddy, wherever he is, that he have a good dinner too." Now it gets really interesting: "and take the stuff that I do wrong, well, I bring it to you and take it and put it with Jesus so he can die on the cross for our sins."

She has been memorizing John 3:16 as part of her speaking lines for the Easter music at church, so I guess she's been thinking about all this a lot. She doesn't understand it all yet, most people don't, but she's certainly considering it.

I thought that was such an interesting picture of repentance. Just take it to the cross so Jesus can die with it.