another busy week begins

this morning woke me up in a similar fashion to yesterday, though not as abrupt. only one little thumper was knocking my subconcious awake. upon going upstairs to see what the commotion was about, i found sonja still 80% asleep with alex on the floor amidst a nice nest she had recently constructed out of 5-6 blankets. so while 'momma' and 'daddyo' were up in the girls' room making sure they were getting up, a couple of cute dialogues ensued...
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momma climbed up on sonja's bed to help wake her up. while she was up there, they were giggling and carrying on while i talked to alex. well, something silly happened up on the bed, and i looked at alex and asked, "what are they doing up there?" to which she replied, "wallowing." she's four years old... do most four-year olds used the word 'wallowing'? of course she can pronounce 'hipsolophodon' (sp?) better than most kids 6 times her age.
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then momma pulled her hair up all funny, and i thought i'd be funny and asked, "doesn't momma look totally '80s?" this time, sonja replied: "yeah, totally '84!"... like she knows what that means... she was born in '03 for crying out loud!
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since we were planning to have company all afternoon and had not yet cleaned the house, sweeping and dishes were the order of the morning, on top of getting ready for church.
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today was our new pastor's second week speaking to the congregation, and he did another fine job talking about our relationship with god. there are a lot of worldy metaphors we subconciously use to describe how/why we relate to god, and they're usually wrong. we see him like a boy scout sees patches: do the work, get the patch. we see him like we see our fathers: sometimes a dad will only notice a child when they're doing something wrong. etc.
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our new friend's husband (whom we haven't met yet) was sick today, so she came to church with her two kids. sarah forgot she had a meeting during that service, so abby and i sat together alone... somewhat awkward...
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then sarah, abby, and the four kids betwixt the two hung out at our house all day while i went and played disc golf with another new friend, sean/shawn. it was his first time playing, but he said he'd do it again, so it wasn't a total loss on the day. i shot a +4 and didn't complain one bit.
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but tomorrow starts another busy week, with something going on every evening except friday, which decided to move it's to-do list to an afternoon dentist appointment. i could use a vacation... ah well, maybe next week...
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guess i should go check on the girls for the 5th time in the last two hours... they should be sleeping by now...