I am a Christian, husband to my beautiful wife & best friend of nine years and father of three adorable children.
I use this website to log my thoughts, happenings & whatnot. Sometimes my posts are work or web-related & sometimes they are family-related or just random.
I produce creative design and code for a living at Visual Notion.
The downside to parenting is that you never know what what will come next. The upside is that you never know what will come next.
Yesterday, while trying to get our two year old to go sit on the potty (she's at that stage earlier than our older two were), she absolutely refused to sit down. She just wasn't going to do it. She was so defiant that she stood there and wet standing up; all over the stool, her pants and her socks. I was not exactly happy about that.
Today is a new day.
I read Michael Hyatt's blog post entitled "What is Holding You Back?" His post got me to thinking about being on the other side of it; judging the effectiveness and abilities of others.
Earlier this school year, I had the talk with my seven year old son about the book he checked out from our private, Christian school. He had chosen a book that I immediately knew was above his current level of reading (and he reads extremely well and often). I talked with him about how he "judged a book by it's cover" by choosing it because of the men with swords and shields on the cover. The book? The Fall of Constantinople.
Our children have a wonderful and funny imagination.
Overheard on the ride home from dinner after church (our older two):
Son: "Let's pretend we're Bible characters."
Daughter: "Okay!"
I'm not sure what it is about us. Why do we continue to think that God doesn't work miracles? (I'm mainly speaking of medical miracles, here.) I guess we are all somewhat like the Disciple Thomas as we have to see it to believe it. Such is the case with our five year old son and his scoliosis.