Honey and I have made what we are calling the September Covenant. See, I read the first chapter of this book. (I am not typing the title because my family friendly rating would go down

and I only read one chapter because I got caught up in 3 other books and it was due back to the library.)

Anyway, in that one chapter the authors discuss just how bad coffee is for you. They also discuss how terrible soda (diet or not) is for your body. So, I was thinking about the fact that something HAS to change with this body of mine and thought maybe one change – something I could be successful at – would be a good thing. Honey wants change too and so I challenged him.

He’s giving up coffee for the month of September and I am giving up soda . . . and chocolate.

September 1 is now over (we’re off to bed) and Honey made it through day one with no coffee. I, on the other hand, made it until 11:30AM with no chocolate. I took goodies to Bubba’s class for a birthday celebration (chocolate covered Oreos) and there was one left over that was shoved into my hand as I left. Absentmindedly (and evidence of the habitual eating that has gotten me where I am today) I opened and ate said cookie and didn’t even realize until the last bite that I had broken the September Covenant already.

The spiritual lesson was overwhelming (the first time I can say that eating an Oreo was a spiritual experience – tee hee). God made a covenant with us – knowing we would break it but loving us so much that He made and kept it. Wow! In a Christ-like way, Honey was quick to forgive me and encourage me to continue in faithfulness to what we began.

I’ll keep you posted.

My little boy, the one who doesn’t say much, had an opinion about his birthday! Can you believe it? I gave him a choice, which I didn’t think was a big deal because he’s rarely answered such questions, and he said he wanted a Blues Clues birthday party. I said, “An ABC party?” and he replied, “No, mama, a Blues Clues party.” Every few days after that he would ask, “When is the Blues Clues party, mama?”

Blues Clues it was.

After room time yesterday we all went in to Bubba’s room and the show began. First we put on the tshirt:

Back:

I asked Bubba if he knew what people gave a birthday boy on his birthday and then asked if we should play Blues Clues to find out. His eyes lit up. Very fun. We sang the song from the show and everyone got a “Handy Dandy Notebook”

before we set of in search of clues.

On the show there is always a video inside the letter, so my super cool family all got together in Birmingham and made a “Happy Birthday Bubba” video. It was awesome. I video taped him watching it and am so glad I did. His smile grew bigger and bigger as he realized what was going on,etc. The second half of the video shows them all gathered around Pop’s chair and he is going through the letters that spell Happy Birthday Bubba. As he drops a piece of paper with a letter to the floor, everyone yells out the next letter in unison and then “What’s that spell?” Once they got to the second P, Sweet Bubs had caught on and would say each letter with them. Adorable. (Thanks, fam!)

After the clues were found, Bubs climbed up into his thinking chair, decided that people get presents on their birthday, and we headed to the back porch for cake and gifts.