God's gifts from a swim week

From Monday...
- Adrianna taking swim classes for the second time this summer, and Abel calling it, "Anna's pool"

- Sweet hands helping with a screw driver
 - Abel's new song he keeps singing, that sounds an awful lot like an Ethiopian song to the rest of us... (Maybe it is?)

- Using handy lunch containers to make packing kids' lunches easier
- Abel asking me to play, "E I E I O," on the piano

- Waking up earlier to transition towards "school time"

And from today...
- Having just enough staffing for our final VBS, even though five of our helpers were out today... and watching God's provision for that need week after week

- Playing relays with the kids at VBS

- Painting a "fool's gold" rock with the kids at VBS

- Adrianna keeping good spirits, even through swim class, VBS, lunch at VBS, a bike ride, and playing in the street with friends

- Abel saying, "Uh oh, Mom, Affey (Giraffey) hurt," when he saw that his stuffed animal was crunched up against the wall

- Hearing good news about a friend's unborn baby

- Making homemade wraps for Scott's "dip day" at work tomorrow

- Kids falling asleep quickly from a busy summer day

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