Day Five

Mommy Lion's been gone for five days now, honestly it's been a little longer as she easily checked out a few days ahead of time and was a bit of a mental wreck. Five days and eveything's alright! Maybe I can do this?

Little Lion woke up this morning arguing about the triviality of wearing two pairs of clothes in three installments. He wanted to wear his swim suit all morning so that he wouldn't have to change into it when swim lessons came. I argued with him that if he wore his swim trunks, he'd forget to remove his under-britches before he jumped in and then he'd have wet under-britches for going to camp after lunch. He needed to wear his clothes this morning, then change into his suit, sans under-britches, then back into his clothes after swimming lessons. Am I way off track here people?

We also debated the evils of flip-flops and dancing, and most importantly, of dancing in flip-flops. Camp Bravo is a drama camp he's been doing in the afternoons, they're working on their choreography and he has great difficulty, apparently, performing in flip-flops.

Not to worry, he didn't take his back-pack to swim lessons - AT ALL. That's right, some how he got to swim lessons in his swim suit, carrying his clothes, but with no towel, no socks, no shoes, just his flip flops. Call me furious!!!

Dinner tonight for Little Pumpkin was a half ear of corn, 6 ritz crackers, and shepherds pie, then a half a sloppy joe! Little Lion had pork roast, green beans, and ritz crackers with an apple.

On the bright side today, I got two loads of laundry finished, talked with my beautiful wife in China via Skype (she was online at 6 AM her time just to see us!!!!) I noticed some tears already when talking about leaving her girls on Friday, such a soft heart for the unjust. Pray for Mommy Lion to share the love of Jesus with her translator and girls, she's had an awesome opportunity already to preach the good news of the gospel!

Sorry, no pictures today, they'd just be of laundry, messy faces, and ... under-britches. Maybe something creative will happen tomorrow. Many thnks to Josh Hood for lending my wife the laptop so she could Skype with her kids!

Oh, I also got good news that my raise that was supposed to go through last April didn't go through, so they're back paying all my checks at the new rate since April. God is good, all the time. The assistance with RJ has taken a toll on us, we're not broke or in debt, just relying on God's blessings to sustain us to the VERY last dollar most weeks.

Today, He did.

Daddy Lion