Merry Christmas from the Easton Elves

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My prediction

Curiously, I am predicting that our baby will come exactly on its due date this time around. "Why?", you say? How could this be? Weren't your first two born the day before their due date?

Aria celebrated her birthday yesterday (Wednesday). Lael's is on a Wednesday this year. My birthday is on a Wednesday this year and the baby is due on April 4th--- a WEDNESDAY!!! Valerie's will be on Sunday this year but that would be just way too coincidental if her's was a Wednesday too.

So, don't ask if its going to be a boy or a girl. Obviously no one knows that! But ask me what day it will be born on-- I say WEDNESDAY!!!


P.S. Thanks for your patience all you people who read my blog yesterday, within 12 hours of me posting, even though I hadn't posted in 3 months. I pity you checking so often... I would have given up long ago :)

Surprise... a post... a brief thought

I was thinking about the disciples response to Jesus when he said, "I say to you, one of you will betray Me." (Mt. 26:21) We all make Judas out to be the bad guy, and obviously he was. But it is interesting that all of the disciples began saying, "Lord, is it I?" I have thought about this before but a new thought I had today was that it appears that they had come to the point that they knew Jesus knew them better than they knew themselves. They didn't respond to Jesus statement with a chorus of "No!" and "It would never be me!" They knew that Jesus spoke the truth even though it did not align with their idea of what they expected to happen. But more importantly, they trusted His word more than they trusted their own confidence in themselves. If I had of been there, I would have said, "surely, Lord, not me... now which of you guys is the hypocrite?" But these guys had hung out with Jesus long enough to get past those games that I like to play-- they knew Jesus knew everything. They knew he knew the deceit, deception and doubt in their minds and they didn't trust in their own facade. I believe they hoped it wasn't them he was talking about, but they knew Jesus well enough to know that He knew.

So, for me that means--- when it comes to my relationship with God, I need to be honest with him. When it comes to the future, I need to trust Him that he knows best. I don't know what tomorrow will bring-- He does. That is a source of confidence and hope.