Most of you have probably heard of Operation Christmas Child. Well our church is participating and our children’s ministry is doing a big emphasis on it with our kids. Elle came home from church on Sunday with her shoebox and was on a mission to rummage through her bedroom to find things to donate to a child in St Louis. Well…the heart was in the right place but she got the details a little mixed up.
This afternoon I was telling her more about the program & how we will go shopping tomorrow and buy gifts for a child in a different county. We talked about how blessed we are to live where we live, to have a warm home filled with toys, food and clothes. The conversation was good…but it quickly went down hill.
I was specifically talking about how the gifts will to go kids in other countries and she insisted that HER gift go to a girl in Antarctica. Sigh. So I shift to gears and started in on a geography lesson talking about how it’s too cold for people to live in Antarctica. Yada, yada, yada… Then she interrupts with this gem of information, “I’m wearing 2 pairs of panties!” What? 1. What in the world made you think about that at this moment. 2. Why are you wearing 2 pairs of underwear?
Sometimes I really try hard to take my parenting out of survival mode…and sometimes I get nowhere.
Kellogues 
Friday, November 4, 2011 at 7:42 pm |
did you ever find out why she had two pair of panties on? this story leaves me hanging. Scott use to go commando. So is she like the “Anti-Scott?” “Bizarro-Scott?”
Saturday, November 5, 2011 at 9:46 am |
i love elle. so much.
and remind me to tell you how joyous that family trip to target to fill our shoebox was. sigh.
Saturday, November 5, 2011 at 10:10 am |
Cracks. Me. Up. 🙂
Wednesday, November 9, 2011 at 1:40 pm |
You guys are way nice that you have your kids help you with that. I do it and tell them about it and then send it away! I’m sure when they’re grown they will have no idea that we ever did this stuff solely because I wasn’t willing to go through it with them. I’m mean. 😉
Monday, November 21, 2011 at 3:18 pm |
wow… i am slow to read this. this story reminds me of ALL the reasons i miss that girl.
Thursday, December 1, 2011 at 8:47 am |
been there and still live there many days. you’d be surprised what sticks that you don’t think they get. I’ve been pleasantly floored on more than one occasion with my T remembers when I was convinced he was not following me…
Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 9:00 pm |
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