“My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”

A what?

“Mommy, I’m a pickle!”
“You’re a pickle??”
“No, a bick-gull!”
“A what???”
“I’m a BIG! GIRL!”
Oh.
“Yes, you are Sweetheart!”

Sick

Lou enters the room with a turkey baster tucked into her armpit. I have to inquire.
“I’n takin’ my tentaper.”
“Oh, are you sick?”
“Yeah, feel my head, I have a beever.”
Can you tell we’ve been sick? What with all the beevers, tentaper-taking, fussy-clingy-ness, oh, and the lymph node the size of a cantaloupe sitting on the side [...]

Answered prayer

So much of the time when I pray, in my head I’m picturing how I think God should answer my prayer. I understand that sometimes God says no, but if he says yes, I always assume it will match my mental picture. Growing up I prayed a lot for my parents. I prayed that God [...]

“Please?”

While cooking with my two- and three-year-old daughters the other day, one of them requested to hold the huge chef’s-knife-of-DOOM. (E is a cutlery snob and we registered for and received a very nice set of knives for our wedding.) (He wishes me to include here that he is, after all, the Paternal Ninja, and [...]