Sweet Prayers, A Dragonfly, & Outside

I forgot to add my most favorite memory of moving.  We had planned to leave at 3 AM, but Drew wasn't sleeping well in his Pack 'n' Play.  Plus, Steve and I weren't sleeping well either.  (It had nothing to do with the accommodations, Wendy!  Thanks for putting us up!)  After a few minutes of hemming and hawing, we decided to leave early.

As we drove in the dark and I felt like Virginia would never end, Noah sat up.  I thought he had been sleeping, but he informed me, "Mom, I've been praying."


Me:  "Oh?"
Noah:  "Yeah.  I was thanking God for sending us to Tennessee and for us having a safe trip so far and not running out of gas and that we have a house there.  With a backyard!"
Me:  "That's great, sweetheart."  (And that's all I could say or else I would have started bawling due to feeling emotional with the driving-away-from-MD part combined with having slept about an hour and a half.)
Noah:  "Yeah, we should pray right now and thank God for more stuff, Momma."

So we did.  I could go on about how he made me cry with his words and his heart, but -- really -- the thing that has impressed me over and over in thinking about his prayer is how he was thankful.  There was no honey-do list for God; it was gratefulness for God's work and how he has richly provided for us.  I hope to be continually reminded of this and think the same way.

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As for the dragonfly, I think this one has misguidedly found a soulmate in my car's antenna.  I've seen it perched there at least three times.  Yes, I know, it's weird ... but the dragonfly is also really beautiful.
 


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Noah is loving that our garage is still full with boxes waiting to be broken down.  It means he has a lot of room to play with his remote-controlled cars.


We've really been enjoying our backyard and playing out there.   I think we've gone outside to play at least once every day.