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My dc announced to me and dh yesterday evening that they had a surprise for us. My dc are 3, 6, 8yo. So me and dh (remained patience with the mess we knew we’d have to clean up or at least oversee them cleaning) walked downstairs only to be met with cries of HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!! We were directed to sit down at the makeshift dining table made out of their toybox and the lid to the toybox was the tabletop. The dining area they made consisted of chairs from our computer table and one pink chair with fringes from my dd’s room. The toybox was covered with one of our couch “throws” for the table cloth.
My eyes were met with bowls of prepared food which were the following: Chef Boy R Dee Spaghettios, Marshmallows, Ritz crackers and raw “diced” tomatoes and baby carrots. My dc served me and their father first as we spooned the desired amounts of each dish onto our plates. My dc then served each other.
Dh commented to the children this was a wonderful surprise, them throwing us a surprise New Year’s Day party like that!! They chose the food and everything, even warmed up the spaghettios in the microwave and brought it downstairs to the party to await our arrival. So after everyone was served we then went before the Lord in our first family prayer for 2008 as me and dh thanked the Lord for these our children and for their servants’ hearts to want to serve us and each other. Dh prayed blessings upon each one of them and my heart swelled with love, devotion, and thankfulness to God for working patience out in me…for breaking me the way He did….so that I could see the blessing of His miraculous power working in the lives of my children. You see impatience would have just seen a mess that had to be cleaned up and while I would have eaten the morsels of food they ‘cooked’ my mind would have been on how tired I was and how I longed to lay down and how this was just prolonging my relaxation….but I didn’t feel like that at all.
I continue to pray for and thank God for what little bit of discernment I have to see the almost imperceptible ‘movings’ of His Spirit. I long for more discernment and more patience and more of learning how to live and conduct myself in God’s agape love.
So that was our 2008 New Year’s Day Celebration and I thank God for it!!!!!!!!!!!