I had the opportunity of keeping the Parris children today. Oh what FUNNY kids they are. And busy, busy, busy!! LOL

Now, tell me....which one is cutest??


When Brother RJ dropped the children off, he told me that Sam had a thing for computers. While he was telling me this, Sam had already found our desktop and was trying to figure out how to get it on. Fortunately, we had this little V-tech laptop that was just right for him. He played with it pretty much all day today. Doens't he look serious? He and Michaela were fighting over it today until we found him sitting alone with it in the kitchen facing a corner. It was so funny. And speaking of Michaela, I got one picture of her and that was by chance when she FLEW into the living room and FLEW right back out. So it was blury. lol


The children were down for a nap when Amanda, Celine, and Carissa came for a visit. We just sat on the couch and talked. It was so nice. It's been a long time since either of us have had any kind of one on one with each other. I've missed seeing her through the week, so it was nice having her here.

Between the eight children, poor Harley was dragged, strangled, pinched, pulled, sat on, chased, and pretty well tortured all the way around. When Michaela, Sam, and Ashlyn were gone, he found Carissa passed out on the couch and decided this was a great time to rest. Bless his heart, he was finding all sorts of hiding places today. Behind doors, under tables, behind the couch. Any place that looked safe from small hands. LOL


Ever feel like this?


This is Amanda and Carissa. I post pics of the girls often enough, but they do have a mother. HA!

Celine found Harrison's mask. BAT GIRL!

Even after Carissa had woken up and gone, Harley slept.....and slept.....and slept. Doesn't he look peaceful?

I think I'll do the same.

Children

We are children of a Father that is continually molding us into His image and His will. I'm so thankful that He makes us over and over again.

Unfortunately, we do not have that option when it comes to the little ones He has loaned to us.

When our children are small, we have but little time to mold them into how God expects them to be shaped.

I took a piece of plastic clay

And I idly fashioned it one day.

And as my fingers pressed it still,

It moved and yielded to my will.

I came again when days were past;

The bit of clay was hard at last.

The form I gave it still it bore,

But I could change that form no more.

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I took a piece of living clay,

And I touched it gently day by day;

And molded with my power and art,

A young child, soft and yielding heart.

And I came again when years were gone;

It was a man, a man I looked upon.

That early impress still he wore,

And I could change that form no more.

~Author Unknown

Proverbs 22:6 "Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it."