Creative Mind

Check these out - my Aunt Linda took the placemat bag idea and just ran with it. This is just what she's done since vacation. Meanwhile I am almost done with my laundry. I really do have free time, I just spend it on other things, like checking this blog to see if I have comments. :)

I recently read a really good book called Me, Myself and Bob, by Phil Vischer. He created Veggie Tales and this tells that whole story - how he created it, how it fell apart and what he did afterwards. I saw a video of him speaking at a conference and thought he had a really good message so when I saw this book at a garage sale (25 cents - love it!) I snatched it up and read it in a couple days. He talks about having a dream and having God fulfill that dream and then watching that dream die and making sense of it, especially when that dream was doing good things for God. I really liked his point that God wants a relationship with us first and he wants us to just walk with Him. We don't have to get so worried and caught up in what we should be doing and feel like we always have to be doing something. Micah 6:8 "He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God." What a great verse. It's just that simple.

NFL or NBA?

Right now, those are Brendan's two career choices. I can't get him to think of an alternative. In his mind, it's simple - one or the other. He goes back and forth between his favorite sport. I was hoping for basketball but he tends to pick football more often. We try to encourage him to have fun and play smart. He doesn't like to be in front of people generally so it's fun to see him on the floor or on the field. To watch him interact with teammates and coaches. We've noticed that as he gets older, he jumps around less during the game and pays attention more. I was amazed when he played football last fall - he just seemed to know what to do. Such a change from 2 years ago when he was running for a touchdown and turned to wave when he heard us cheering him on. Oh, if only I could have gotten that on video!

He's not much for playing with toys but there doesn't seem to be a game he won't play. Board games, card games, video games, sports games. Does this mean he's competitive? I know he likes rules. And he likes to make sure other people follow the rules. He has a very hard time when his idea of what's fair is different than my idea. He tends to handle losing okay, unless he loses often and badly. I relate to that. I stopped playing Sequence with Josh for awhile because he won so much. It's just not fun if you never get a jack and always lose! And Josh always acted like he didn't really care about winning, which somehow makes it worse when you're the loser. Actually, he stopped playing Sequence with me. :) I was okay with that - I needed time to pout.

I need to post about some of my better traits that my kids have gotten from me. Brendan loves reading and is an excellent reader. He will re-read the same book over and over again. And he hates to get rid of them. This could be a negative but I will choose to see it as a positive. He doesn't hang on to anything else and willingly puts things in the garage sale pile. But he sees the value in books. And I intend to encourage that.