Family Days & Life Lessons

It was kind of scuzzy and cool out today, so we opted to stay close to home for our family day. After breakfast, we all climbed into our car and decided to go scope out the local neighborhoods and see if there were any yardsales or fun things going on today. We hit two yardsales where I was able to score a few clothes for the boys and some really fun toys. And we also happened upon a free "kids day" at a local high school. There was free snacks, an amazing little petting zoo, a blow up bouncy tent and slippy slide, and a "lizard guy" who had all kinds of cool reptiles. It was a little boy's paradise!

So, that was how we spent our morning. Then we came home and all the boys crashed while I just putzed around in the silence! Here is where today's life lesson came in: One of the really cool things that we purchased was a really fun little tupperware picnic/play food set. Kaden is always wanting to feed his animals snacks and such, and I always just use a bunch of hodge podge stuff, so it's really fun to have some cool things to use now. Anyway, one of the things that came with the playset was this little plastic cake that you could put plastic chocolate or strawberry frosting on, and you could cut it into slices etc. We have no play food, so Kaden thought this was the coolest.

Anyhoo - when he woke up from his nap and was totally psyched to play picnic with his animals, we found all of the dishes but no cake. Kev thought he remembered putting them on top of the car when he buckled Kaden into his seat, so most likely they blew off as we drove home, and they were probably long gone. We drove all over tarnation today, so they could have ended up anywhere. Anyway, we still had about an hour of daylight to kill this evening, and it wasn't Jesse's bedtime yet, so we decided to take a little drive back over to that neighborhood to see if we could find them. Before leaving, we prepped Kaden by telling him that we very likely may not find them, but "let's pray about it and ask Jesus to help us. He cares about the little things as well as the huge." When Kev prayed, he thanked Jesus for listening even to our small little prayers, and he prayed that even if we didn't find our treasure we know that He still loves us and we still love Him, as well.

Anyway - long story short - we ended back up at the lady's house, and the cake was sitting right there on her table! We hadn't even brought it to the car with us after all! And to top it all off, she completely loaded us up with about $20 worth of loot for free, because she hardly sold a thing today! It was SO cool and just a really really neat lesson for Kaden to experience in seeing that his Creator cares about the smallest of details in his life. And for me, a door has been opened for a witnessing opportunity and a friendship. How cool is that?