Humor and Fairness

By the time I figured out my password to get back into this account, it has gotten late and I am tired--too tired to do a story much justice. But I couldn't let the day go by without telling you something I learned today. I just assumed my kids knew what tumbling was. Dave asked Josiah to dress like a clown and do some tumbling in a Kidstuf sketch this morning. The new February virtue is Fairness. Jack Hazard begins by getting so excited that the virtue is "Fair". He thinks it's time to have a fair! Suddenly there is fair music playing and the atmosphere gets supercharged with fun and excitement. He calls in his helpers and in comes Tim carrying a pole with cotton candy hanging while he yells, "Get your cotton candy here!" His wife Diann is twisting balloons. Trenton is filling up sandy candy. Andrew F. is unicycling. Eric is juggling. Jesse was a strolling magician. And last but not least, Josiah was the clown. He looked so cute dressed up with a fancy vest and pants, a huge pink tie with orange polka dots and his brother's crazy red, blue and yellow suspenders. He comes out on the stage and begins to fall over--flat on his face. He thinks that tumbling means to tumble or fall over. I couldn't contain my laughter. The surprise of it all just had me cracking up. He continued to get up and then fall over again...get up and then fall over again.... Well, it really made me laugh and it is not something that I will soon forget. I love when things really catch me by surprise and make me laugh--the unexpected things that strike me and cause me to laugh out loud. It doesn't happen that often. I'm a tough humor critic. Today was a good one.

Later, we had a Mexico meeting. At the end, we had an open prayer time where anyone who felt led could pray. Dave and I were so proud when the second person to pray was Josiah. He began by praying that we would all have a great time on our trip to Mexico. We were smiling...our hearts were touched.... Then he went on to pray that our plane wouldn't crash! I heard chuckles around the circle. Of course, we all have that same prayer. But it is not something that we verbalize. A fleeting thought maybe...a private prayer maybe...but not a corporate prayer that we share with the group. Gotta love the honesty of children. And next time we go for a doctor's appointment and there is a plane on the t.v. screen that has gone down because birds got in the engine, I am going to take my kids and turn around and walk out!

Random thoughts: the Steelers won their 6th Superbowl, we found out that JD likes Amy's gluten free spinach pizza on rice crust, John got gooped on in Kidstuf today, the boys have a talent show this Friday, we leave for Mexico in 9 days...WOW!