Adventures with Spoons

Today's not-so-favorite moments included . . .

. . . Joy waking up at 6:30am. Bleh.

Today's favorite moments included . . .

. . . Joy looking at our home evening job chart and noting that she was in charge of the "entihbillee" (activity) tonight.

. . . for her birthday a little while ago Joy received a My Little Pony, complete with brush, rainbow skirt, and a bio declaring that all the pony's friends come to her for fashion tips. Today Joy asked what she should name the little horse. I replied that it was her horse so she should choose a name. She settled on "Bulls-eye," Woody's faithful steed in the Toy Story films.

. . . reading a quote from a chef urging people not to throw out produce just because a bug or bird took a little bite out of it. He said, "It's probably the best piece of fruit, anyhow, if a bug wanted a bite. They go for fruit purely based on taste. So cut the bite out and eat the rest. If you see a bunch of parrots flocking to a certain fruit tree, you should just try to beat them to it."

And another thing . . .

. . . Daniel is increasingly determined to wield his own spoon, but he always turns it upside down and the contents fall off. Every time his oatmeal plopped onto his tray this morning, he laughed like it was the most hilarious thing ever. It was cute, in a messy, inefficient sort of way (and you can guess how much I love messy inefficiency).

. . . for home evening tonight, I borrowed a recent RS teacher’s object lesson, offering Joy a spoon and a flower pot full of dirt, and instructing her to take a bite. She did it without hesitation (I was pleasantly surprised that she trusted me that much), and found the Oreo crumb “dirt” so tasty that she ate a dozen more spoonfuls of it. I then explained that, just as she trusted me enough to do something she ordinarily wouldn’t do, sometimes God and His prophets ask us to do things we aren’t sure will make us happy, but we trust them enough to do those things anyway. When we do, we find out that we really will be better off for following their counsel.