EXCUSE ME?

So today a special needs boy came up to our stand:

"EXCUSE ME!? DO YOU WANT TO GO OUTSIDE AND HAVE A HOTDOG?"

This made my day. Right there.

PlansPlans.

Sometimes plans don't work out

When you really wanted them to...you know...work out

Owell. SDC.

Timmies Buds. Best Friends Forever.

Timmies Buds. Best Friends Forever.

How we Attract Them Boys

P.R.A.Y

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.

Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

Where there is injury, pardon.

Where there is doubt, faith.

Where there is despair, hope.

Where there is darkness, light.

Where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master,

grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console;

to be understood, as to understand;

to be loved, as to love.

For it is in giving that we receive.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,

and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.

Amen

-Prayer of St.Francios of Aussi

ERRRon....eeeeerrron

I'm not too sure what we (Crub and I) were going for here. But turns out that you can entertain yourself with just a melted yoghurt tube and your lovely sound effects.

I like to say these are the Times I Love

Maybe this is a rant about how I love to babysit. Maybe it only makes sense in my head. But rants are often about things that I like. I like to say that this rant is about something that I love (maybe even a gift). I love kids. I love spending time with them. I love to babysit.

Tonight I was babysitting a family that I have babysat since I started babysitting (what Grade 8 or something??). Now their kids are almost too old for a babysitter and I was merely there to supervise and create fun for a couple hours.

I like to say that these are the times that I love.

The times you can pretend to be one of the kids again. Be the babysitter that breaks a few rules here and there. Let them have candy and ice cream--It was Heavenly Hash. We watch Mr. Bean. We played Swipe. I loved watching them re-enacting scenes from a movie. And hearing about the teachers they don't like or stories from grade school. Tell them funny stories of when I was in gradeschool. I hear about their sports teams. If it had been a little earlier in the day, possibly we would have gone outside to shoot some hoops.

If I could forever be a babysitter. If forever kids never grew up. If forever I didn't grow up. Or that time would stop flying by at a speed that I can't count. I like to say that these are the Times I love, and I like to say that forever thats what I could do.

Shine

Shine.

The word Shine.

Its Inspiring.

Its Contagious.

Its Shining.

Its Hope.

Its Joy.

Its outstanding.

Its Guiding

Its Brilliant.

Its Radiant.

Let Your Light Shine.

Let it Shine. Let it Shine. Let it Shine.

Play

Played Wii

Played Hide and Seek Tag in the Dark

Played Run Around like a Maniac

Played Scare

Played Laugh at awesome scare

Played attempt to Watch Wallace and Gromit

Played more Wii

Played More Hide and Seek Tag in the Dark

Played Quiet while hiding

Played Sneaky while searching

Played imitate Animal sounds

Played laugh at amazing ("CAW-MOO-RUFF")

Played in the Dark

Played with wind up Flashlights

Played with wind up Flashlights even though mine was broken...I didn't break it

Played Competition: doesn't everything always come down to competition

Played "I bet you don't know what this means..."

Played "Of course I know what that means....Everyone Knows what that means"

Played Hit

Played Run

Did I mention:

Played Wii?

Played New Wii Game

Played Old Wii Game

Played Laugh

Played

Play

Play

Play

PAA-LAYYYYY!!

We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing

-George Bernard Shaw

When you come home...

Trials of Many Kinds

I have been hearing a lot about trials lately. Trials are tough. They are trying. They can rip at the very deepest part of us. They sometimes seem like a bully that comes along and sticks their foot out to trip us.

Trials are the boy who has cancer or the girl who is in the hospital for a month. Trials are families that are struggling through to remain standing when everything seems to be pushing them down.

...friendships that are broken or being stabbed in the back ...feeling lonely...questioning where you are going in life or not where you are at now....

.....the list goes on and on and on.....

“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”

Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial because, having stood the test, that person will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love him.

Cool Beans

I bet your mom doesn't quote lines from your favourite movies or say "Woot Woot"

"Cool Cool Cool Beans"

Mom, I think you are cool.