Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Soaking It All In...

Joey and I have been reading these articles about raising boys on this really awesome website that my friend Heidi shared with me ... nogreaterjoy.org .... they have hundreds of articles on training up children ... Every few days we read a new article and try to soak up some ideas of things that we can do to pour out Christ's love over our kiddos...



One of the ideas that we have soaked up is actually extremely simple... it's simply including the kids in the things that we are already doing as a means of teaching them how to do new things, to show them how things work, and to help them develop new skills... It's not a new idea but it has been a helpful reminder to us of how the simple things really bless our kids...

So this weekend our friend Mark came over with his RV and Joey and Mark took Josiah out with them ALL day... Joey had Siah bring out his own "play tools".... He told Siah what each tool was and what it was used for.... During the times that Siah couldn't really do what Joey was doing Joey would set Siah up with a job right next to him; something that he could do (or at least pretend to do :)... There was some erosion on the battery so Joey took a soda and had Josiah pour it over the battery so that he could see how the soda takes the erosion right off the battery... Josiah soaked it all up!!!! He told me about his day with Papa all night!!! That's one of the ways that I can tell when Josiah has had a good time doing something or is excited about something... He becomes a MAJOR chatter box! :)

I love watching my boys... I'm so thankful that Joey is so involved with our kids lives... Not just in the things that they do but in the matters of their hearts...
Blessing upon blessing...