This year you sat with me for our church's Good Friday service, because childcare was only available for preschool and below. I hadn't brought any activities for you, so you were just drawing with the highlighters and pens on the notepaper. I was so touched when I looked down during one of the worship songs and saw what you were writing.
This came entirely from your own heart and I felt so blessed to get a glimpse of God's work in you. One of my hopes for this year was to look for where God is doing things in your life and this was a big picture of that for me. You told me afterward that your paper was special and you wanted to keep it. When I told you I wanted to keep it, you said I could. :)
We also had some trouble a couple weeks ago when you weren't hungry for breakfast one morning. You confessed to me that you had woken up early, sneaked downstairs and climbed up in the pantry to grab the treat bag, then ate 7 treats!! You felt pretty sick to your stomach. It hadn't dawned on you that I can see your trash, so when I went upstairs I saw you'd had a granola bar, teddy grahams, a twizzler, sweet tarts... I threw away a good amount of your candy and figured your upset stomach would help you learn. Then after bedtime that night, you came out and handed me a treat you had hidden under your pillow during your adventure the previous night, planning to snack some more later. You said you didn't want to get in trouble. I told you I was so proud of you for choosing to tell the truth and hand it over!
Love,
Mommy
