Telling It Like It Is

I love to hear these girls pray. It brings joy to my heart to hear them talk to God. As much as I love it, however, I do sometimes get tickled at the things they come out with, particularly Sarah Grace. It seems that when she prays she just outlines for the Lord just what our day has been like. Tonight she prayed for "mama, and daddy isn't feeling well and Laine isn't feeling well and Lainey got a scrape outside and dad put some glue on it and then dad got the glue off. In Jesus' name we pray, amen." Now what she's telling there is that Lainey got a splinter in her hand and we tried to get it out by putting a little wood glue on it and then pulled the glue off when it had dried hoping that the splinter would come with it (it didn't). But I think it's great that she's just comfortable enough with talking to God that she wants to tell him what's happened in her life each day; she doesn't try to "dress up" her prayers with lots of big words or special voice inflections. She just talks to him; I think that's what prayer is supposed to be. More and more, I believe these little people are here to teach me a great deal.

Speaking of teaching, I think our first day of working with our new books went well. I've still got to figure out just what to do with Sarah Grace when I'm trying to work with Lainey. "Tying to a tree" is looking like a more viable option every day. No, no, I won't do that, but I do need something to do with her. She participates in our lessons as much as possible, but when she grows weary, she grows whiny and that makes teaching vowel sounds very difficult! I'm not worried; we're all new at this so we'll get it figured out sooner or later, hopefully sooner rather than later!