Time for a ramble ...

I can't believe I haven't posted since March 23rd. I think I am getting like everyone else in that Facebook is replacing blogs. Maybe because it's more interactive? Definitely it's less work to comment on someone's status or have a chat than it is to post a blog. But something is lost too ... at least for me - I don't get to tell stories on Facebook! And I really like doing that! Last weekend there was a women's conference at our church, and one of the workshops was on "Writing Your Life Story." I didn't get to go, but I got the short version from the teacher as well as her materials, and I'm intrigued. She suggests capturing memories, basically, which is what I think I've been doing on this blog for the last several years. The bonus here is the pictures.

So now that I've spent a few minutes brain-streaming for you, here's a couple of Lexi shots from the other night.




I just love the child's eyes, can't help zooming in on them whenever I've got the camera. She spent the night Thursday, and one of her favorite things to do over here is take a bubble bath. I sit in my chair at the bottom of the stairs and just listen to her talk and mostly sing - she is so funny. She has a 'swimming puppy' that unfortunately has had it's head removed from it's body somehow, and she was singing love songs to him: "Oh, you are my one true love, yes, my one true love, I'm so sorry your head came off, but I will wash you clean anyway and then we can play, my best friend, my one true love ..." And on and on and on (not all about her one true love thankfully). I just sit down there and laugh.

We are reading "The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe" together, and she is fascinated. I didn't know whether she would be old enough to appreciate it or even understand it, but despite the "old english" and the big words she seems to be absorbing it completely. In fact, while I was reading to her (we're about a third of the way thru the book, the kids have been told a little about Aslan and that they're to meet him soon, but nothing more) we came to the part where Edmund finds the stone lion at the White Witch's castle, and she started to cry and said, "Oh NO! The White Witch already turned the hero into stone!" I was very interested that she has already put together that Aslan is the hero, even if it made her sad. We talked about it being a story like movies are stories, and she said, "But I know one thing that IS true in this book, Adam and Eve! (The kids are called Sons of Adam and Daughters of Eve throughout the book.) Yay! Sunday school, camp, reading the Bible at home, talking talking talking about all matters spiritual with her ... even though I personally don't ever remember talking about Adam and Eve, someone obviously has.

Anyway, that's my best Lexi story of the moment. Oh, except for the part where she was twirling around on one foot in her tinkerbell shirt telling me she wanted to be a singing ballerina when she grows up ...

And now that I've given you part of the book review, everyone who has read "The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe," go buy the book! Or watch the movie! It's worth your time, I promise.