Abby - Halloween

Trunk or Treat

Silly Abby

This will be a quick post since I'm eating a bagle at the same time, hoping I can be ready for work by 8:30! Just wanted to share the mind of Abby. Funny how children can catch things and it changes YOUR perspective...
The other day me and Abby were in the car, and we were listening to some gospel song, and she asked me if I was ever going to die, and I told her yes one day but in a long long long time! I told her that everybody dies someday but it's ok if we have Jesus in our heart because we just go to heaven to be with Him. This is when she was trying to understand how Jesus *literally* lives in our heart. Trying to explain, I told her that Jesus' "Love" is in our heart, not his actual body in there floating around :) And she said to me "yeah, and mom, ya know why we have to keep Jesus in our heart?" And I asked why. She replied, "So the devil can't get in!"
I asked her where she got that from and she said "umm, just myself!"

Well it's been a while since I posted. I guess having a full time job doesn't leave you much time for anything else. Every morning I wake up around 6:30, drag myself to the living room and try to wake up. Abby gets up around 7:45 and I take her to school at 8:25. She loves it! She starts her music class next week. They just learned the letter 'E' and had show and tell where she had to bring something that started with E, so she brought her "Earrings." :) She still loves her new earrings but can't wait the next 2 weeks because she can change them out into something else. She wants all these big, dangly, sparkly earrings. HAHA!
Billy picks her up from school between 1:30 & 3 everyday or his mom will come and get her and they'll spend the day together. She doesn't like nap time so everyday she asks us if we can pick her up at 1:30, hahaha. She is getting used to her new schedule, but when I put her to bed she is usually asleep in 20 minutes. I can't believe she'll be 5 years old in just 4 weeks. She's getting taller, more talkative, more outgoing, and hyper! She's actually started to wear a size 5 now. Well not much else going on. "Trunk or Treat" is coming up at our church, last year we had about 500 people come through - so we're hoping for more this year. Just think of how much candy that is! >:O Well of course Abby wants to be a princess again for halloween but we'll see..I'm trying to get her to look in some books for some other ideas that she'll like that are different but you know how that goes. The parents want to think outside of the box (afterall, it only happens once a year!) but the kids always want to be the same thing, hahaha.
We had our highest attendance at church last week of 80 people. They're looking for some other building locations which we're hoping to find soon. We're currently in the sermon series of Marriage & Family/Parenting (Relationships, etc.).
Well it's getting late and my eyes are slowly closing so I'm off to bed. Goodnight!