Tuesday, March 01, 2005

$47.30 FOR A LIGHTER?

We took the Madster to the Shrine Circus last weekend. Despite the thrilling acrobatics, the human cannonball, the dancing dogs, the clown on stilts, what do you suppose captured her attention?

The size of a certain pile that was left in the center ring after the elephant act.

Oy!

For this, we spent $47.30 for the three of us? Oh, well, the experience also included a snowcone and a cheesy plastic lightsword for Maddy. It telescopes out in a rainbow of colors and she loves it.

The trouble is, she calls it her “lighter.”

I’m sure there’ll be a lot of tsk-tsking in the homes of her fellow preschoolers tonight, as they contemplate our family, which is so depraved, our 4-year-old must already smoke because she has her own lighter!

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Prayer request: The love of our earthly parents is a foretaste of You, Father, and so when they are taken from us at any age, it hurts. We lift up for Your gentle touch a married couple, Marilyn and Bob. Bob’s mother has died after complications from open-heart surgery, and his father died last April. Continue to draw Marilyn, Bob and their family to You with Your lovingkindness, a foretaste of the joy their parents are experiencing with You now. (Jeremiah 31:3)

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