My Adventurous Life

When my son first choose his costume, the Grim Reaper , my daughter was frightened and wouldn't look at the mask. She claimed she was going to have nightmares from his costume. She quickly over came her fear on Halloween and never mentioned her earlier fears. My children had so much fun trick-or-treating this year. They met up with their cousins at church for a trunk-or-treat and hit a few homes along the way home. The weather was beautiful and it was nice to trick-or-treat in the daylight!

As I laid in my bed one night and gently reached under my pillow for my remote control I found a most interesting item by its side. It was a rock, a Prayer Rock to be exact. For some reason, it kept finding its way under my pillow. Night after night, the same rock appeared with the same smiling face saying "pray." Later I found my children (mostly my son) were giving me a most precious hint by placing this prayer rock under my pillow each night. When they were younger we always had family prayer each night. This past year I've been so busy that our family prayer fell to the wayside. A while back I told my son we need to get back into the habit of saying our prayers again. He said he always says his prayers and it was I who needed to start saying prayers again. The other day I even caught my daughter saying her prayers in the back seat of the car. I asked what she was praying for and she said she was asking for forgiveness of all her sins. What a little cutie she is. I...

All the snow we had at the first of October quickly melted and we wound up with an Indian summer! It was nice to wear our shorts again and play in the fall leaves!

My sister was hospitalized a few weeks ago and needed help with her children because her husband was gone hunting. The night I watched them we carved pumpkins to keep busy so they wouldn't miss their Mom and Dad so much. Her children had lots of fun, as did mine!