Tomato Couch

So I have to share this Andy moment. We were standing in the kitchen. I was getting Andy a fruit snack and he was telling me all about Jack playing the Wii. He pipes off: "Jack has been playing the Wii too much. He is going to get fat and turn into a tomato couch." I started laughing and he started laughing and I suggested that maybe he meant couch potato. Then he really started laughing and agreed. So he repeats it with the corrected verbiage and adds "fat like you". I took him outside and gave him a snow bath. Only joking of course. We just joked back and forth for a bit and laughed. The kid is a riot.

I am speaking in church tomorrow. This is the first time in over 2 years. As I think about those years and what has happened in my life I find it funny that the topic given is Family. No other direction given, just Family. Well, the assignment came the day after the Worldwide Leadership Training on the new Handbook of Instructions. I thought about the instruction that was given in that meeting. There was emphasis on the family in the meeting and also in the handbook. The first section of the book deals directly with the family and so I decided I would go there. I have narrowed the topic some to the section on Strengthening the Family and will discuss more specifically fortifying our families. I spent a few hours this evening preparing the talk and I feel pretty good about it. Timed out okay at 10 minutes so hopefully that is the amount of time expected. We will see how it goes. I think we should be okay. I may post the talk tomorrow evening.

It snowed today and the kids have enjoyed some time outside playing in it. Natty asked if we could go midnight sledding and I had to turn her down. That may be a fun activity some day but not today. I had not been out in the snow and didn't really look at it until I had the kids down for bed. I thought that I wouldn't worry about it and just get up and shovel in the morning. Well, I will probably have to get up and shovel in the morning anyway but it should be much easier because I went out and shoveled it anyway. I am making a trade off of running tonight for shoveling snow. It was actually around 6" deep already and it is still coming down. If it keeps coming we could have quite a bit on the ground in the morning. I will get up early and check it again. I do love the snow. You know, if I am going to live here and be cold it might as well be snowing. What is the point otherwise?

All the kids are camping in the living room tonight. They were really excited about it at their cousins house and wanted to do it here. They forgot last night and were bummed but they are lovin it tonight. If Andy pulls through I may actually make it a night without my little bed buddy. I guess we'll know soon enough.

I am grateful for the day, for the snow, for the kids and for the fun.