dinner drawings...

tonight daddy took aunt b and me to dinner... 

we let the kids tag along. 

we were discussing our days and trying to decide what to eat as lilybug was coloring away on a note pad.

our sweet server came to get our order and as she was finishing up, lily said "hey, i wanna give this to you!"

as lilybug handed the paper to our server, i caught a glimpse of what she'd been working on. it was a cross, colored in pen, and about the size of the piece of paper. the server was gracious and thanked lily for the pretty picture. what came next made us all tear up... lily very proudly exclaimed, 

"that's for Jesus dying on the cross!" 

i want to be courageous... 

i want to be bold... 

i want childlike faith.

national siblings day... a week-ish late.

i heard last thursday was national siblings day. so this makes me a little late to the game... but i thought i'd give a little whirl anyway...

that one there... the one with no hair... he belongs to me. 

my big, little brother.

that kid can (still) push my buttons like no other person on this planet... i mean it. like. no. one. 

he makes me want to call our dad and tattle sometimes... and i'mma big girl... 

his words can come out a little prickly... 

he will throw me under the bus in a new york minute... 

his face is always what i think of when i am digging through my spice cabinet and come across the jar of "dill weed"... 

BUT...

he's brilliant... really. 

he cries when he opens his special christmas presents...

those prickly words... most of the time they're full of truth...

he'll defend me, regardless of the issues, if anyone else were to try to throw me under the bus...

he's a phone call away, any time of the day or night... 

and i love him dearly...

i 'spose i'll keep him.