Christlike...

behavior is what we're working on in our home.  It's our current "Be" word for preschool and what Talon spoke about in Primary on Sunday.  It's appropriate as we enter the next 4-5 weeks of being daddyless.  I'll need to remember it esp. during my moments of exhaustion.

So today Jaxon exclaims,"Mom, my school bus driver is like Jesus...she has a nail in her tongue and in her belly."  I paused for a moment and said, "She is very kind and friendly like Jesus."

For Easter I had the preschool kids list Christlike characteristics.  We put them in eggs and hid them around the house.  They loved it and so did I as opportunities arouse that day to talk about being Christlike.  I decided we needed to make this whole month centered around being Christlike as it does encompass so much of our behavior.

We had the most glorious Easter celebration as it started Friday morning with the boys playing hide and seek and finding their Easter baskets under a blanket in the closet under the stairs.  They were purely delighted.  It's always joyous to see our children experiencing happiness.

Doug and I jumped on a flight out to North Carolina to be there for our dear friends Bridget and Chris Gitthens baptism over the weekend.  We'd known them from when we lived in South Boston, Virginia 6 years ago.  While we lived there we gave them a Book of Mormon and I bore my testimony in a very lengthly letter.  I also gave her some cd's with inspirational music.  They attended Jaxon's baby blessing and were there when we spoke in church in our tiny little branch.  We were just one of the many seeds that were planted in their lives.

A few weeks previously they emailed us and told us they were being baptised in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  Our hearts were filled with so much joy as we feel our friends choice will bring them an abundance of blessings- the gift of the Holy Ghost, a chance to be sealed for eternity as a family, the posterity that will rejoice in Christ's Gospel, etc.  As I watched their children sing the words of "I feel my Savior's Love" with the entire primary choir, I teared up thinking "how do they know this song...it's as if they've come home...many lives will be blessed...oh so much joy!"

Doug participated in Bridget's baptism and Chris' confirmation.  The spirit was so strong both during the baptism and during Sacrament meeting the next day.  Both of their parents and some siblings were in attendance and I just keep thinking "how could they not have felt God's love during the services...it was so intense and beautiful and it was all about our Savior, Jesus Christ."

What did we do with the kids you ask?  Our kind neighbor watched them and then a friend took them to church.  We arrived home in time to have a pot luck Easter dinner with friends.