Pages left that is, in my 3rd book (and it's only January, frankly, I'm doing well!) on my list for 2008. It is so thick, but it's wonderful. Randy Alcorn's, Heaven, answers about 100 questions he and others have had about our future home. It is full of Scripture (just about after answered question!) and has made me realign my thinking of sitting on clouds, strumming harps all day, bouncing from white puffy cotton cloud to the next! It has taken me the entire 6 weeks the library allows for one book to be checked out and then renewed by one person. It's technically due on the 25th...but I hope to be done by this weekend! I think his next book (also on my list), "Money, Possessions, and Eternity" will be MUCH farther down through the year than I previously thought. It's sorta like labor and childbirth...ya' know you want to have another one...but you need a bit of a break first to "want" to want the next! One of the things he talks about it meeting up with the fathers and first members of the church to discuss how their theology changed the way he viewed the King. I can't wait to tell C.S. Lewis how much I loved his description of 'singing creation into being'!
My children have recently become enthralled in the world of board games. I was never a board game player. Sure, I remember long summer hours (days? it seemed like it..) spent around a Monopoly board, but I was never one to suggest to get out the cards, or a game. As my children have grown and they are now able to do activities with me, I started noticing that they really took to puzzles (when done all together) and the one or two board games I happened to have kept in the storage room. They were always asking to play Candy Land and so I figured I should branch off a bit. Over the course of the last year, I have found GREAT games, even ones that I love to play alongside them. The amount of 'teaching' they have gotten through games is jaw-dropping. Counting, team-playing, math related patterning, are just some of the skills I've watched develop. I asked before Christmas on facebook what my friends and their own kids loved and I was thrilled with the response. We have found ov...
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