the weeks starts off well

Grace and her daddy last weekend

Monday is a pretty good day.  The start of a new week.  Jodie and I had a YW errand to do (we had to go to Costco to pick up the TREK poster for our building) so we made it a day and went to the movies first.  We saw Draft Day, which I liked. 

It's my carpool week so  we had to pick up the kids on the way home.  

It started raining yesterday around 3 30, and it's supposed to rain all week.  This is a bummer because we missed riding and soccer.  It was nice because we could go to Target all together for some things Hannah needed and then we had dinner at home and FHE before it was late. 

For FHE we talked about Prayer.

I love this from the Bible Dictionary on prayer:

As soon as we learn the true relationship in which we stand toward God (namely, God is our Father, and we are His children), then at once prayer becomes natural and instinctive on our part (Matt. 7:7–11). Many of the so-called difficulties about prayer arise from forgetting this relationship. Prayer is the act by which the will of the Father and the will of the child are brought into correspondence with each other. The object of prayer is not to change the will of God but to secure for ourselves and for others blessings that God is already willing to grant but that are made conditional on our asking for them. Blessings require some work or effort on our part before we can obtain them. Prayer is a form of work and is an appointed means for obtaining the highest of all blessings.

After I cleaned the kitchen while R & G walked the dogs and E and H did homework.  

It was a movie kind of day for me, at night after we got Lu to bed we watched "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" which was cute.

gerbil update: Kristine died.  This was epically tragic and now we are searching for  replacement rodent.