6.04.2008

A Light & Heavy Note

I will start with my "light note" as it just doesn't seem appropriate to talk about light things after talking about a "heavy note", but life is so interesting at how even though heavy things happen, life does just keep going and my child just continues to learn things...both the good and the bad. I am either laughing or shaking my head at yet another "no no" to add to the list. This week's first learning adventure was in learning how to "shoo" flies. Noah does not like bugs and flies at this point thanks to his mommy. If daddy is not proud of this, he is going to need to spend a little more time with his son in the outdoors as at this point all he has heard from mommy is that bugs are yucky and he is constantly wanting me to move them out of his way when he is playing in the outdoors. He can't seem to understand that he can just walk around them and avoid them. Flies are a different story as you can't walk around them and avoid them and sometimes they even hit you in the head which is what happened to Noah while eating lunch recently. He didn't seem to like this very much so I decided that maybe it was time for him to learn how to "shoo" the fly away. He seems to love this new game. Sometimes the word "shoot" comes out instead of "shoo", but no matter...this is now a new thing that he really enjoys. The bad thing that he learned is that he can move a kitchen chair around the kitchen, climb on top, and reach any counter that he wishes in the kitchen including the stove top and many new drawers which is a very scary thing. He even tried to move the chair into the pantry recently which I have very purposefully organized to put all breakable and dangerously sharp objects up just high enough for him to not be able to reach. Oh the fun of parenting!

My "heavy"note is that my papa Don did pass away yesterday at 1:17pm. It is still a strange concept to me that he never saw this new day, June 4th, and all the days continuing. And the hardest part of all to me is not knowing where he stood with God. I am so grateful that he had many opportunities to hear about God and respond to Him even up until the end. He never verbally responded favorably to anyone who spoke with him about God, but the only hope I have is in not knowing what was going on in his heart. Unfortunately his words and actions didn't seem like his heart had turned toward God, but the heart is something that only God knows...he knows our hearts and we all have up until the very end of our lives to respond no matter how we have responded earlier in our lives. We will be leaving tonight to spend a week in Santa Rosa and there will be a small service on Tuesday for my grandpa.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey Kristy, I am sorry about your grandpa. That is hard. I will say a prayer for you and the family. I am excited that you are blogging! I love looking at people's too when I have time. I love seeing the pictures. Noah is a cutie! Well I'd better get back to work- only two days left of school! Let me know about the
20th! I want to see you so if you can't make it we need to figure something out! Love you! Tricia

Aunt Kathy & Uncle Greg said...

Kristy and Dave,

We are glad to have way to keep in touch with the family. We missed seeing Derek and June in the family picture. The picture has an interesting perspective.

We were sorry to hear from your mom about grandpa Don. Hope that gramma Lou will be able to adjust. We will be coming to Santa Rosa June 13th (lucky Friday the 13th) and will be leaving June 20th. Sorry we will miss you!

I want to let you know I think you are a terrific communicator!!

Blessings2U said...

Hi guys

Love this blog thing that all you young families are doing. So glad that you decided to start one so we can keep up on your family, your lives & photo's. We check Ash & Todd's almost everyday & we will check yours often too just in case you've added some newsie things or photo's. I sent your blog site on to Stacie as I know she will love keeping up too.

We are hoping to get to Mesquite at the end of this month. We decided we should check on our house so we will detour a little on our way to Tucson to see Shawn Jen & the boys.

Love You All
Mandi

Kelli I. said...

Kristy,
I stumbled upon your blog and I have to say that it made my day! I love that I can get caught up on your life and see pictures of your family.

I was so sad when I found out that your grandpa passed away...I will continue to keep your sweet family in my prayers.

Let's stay in touch.
Kelli