Sleepy Monday

Tonight I plan to finish reading Madeleine L'Engle's book "Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art". I have enjoyed it immensely. This is at the very least the third time I have read it, and each time I seem to pull out something entirely different than I did with past readings. For this reason I just cannot understand how someone can only read a book once. This time I have dog-eared many pages and have found a few thoughts that I would like to commit to memory. Although, in the past few years I've begun to wonder just how useful THAT idea will be.

Jonge and Famke came today. Yesterday's celebrating wore the two of them out, as it did me. Jonge slept for four hours. Famke and I slept for two. When she was awake, all she wanted to do was snuggle deeply. Oh, we played some, but snuggling was by far her activity of choice for the day. Not hard to get me to comply with that request!

Youngest Son brought a book with him yesterday and forget to leave with it. It was nice to have a book within reach today. He dropped by tonight to pick it up, but I've requested a chance to finish it. It is "Surprised by Hope" by N. T. Wright. This one, so far, is a much easier read than his "Jesus and the Victory of God". I had to re-read each paragraph of that book several times to grasp the meaning, and I'm not sure I did all that well with comprehension.

Oh. I also read "Snuggle Puppy" several times, to Famke.

Jonge had a scary thing happen to him at his house on Saturday. He came face to face with a deer at their living room window. He ran to his mommy right away, and she was able to see the tracks - right up to their house. The retelling of this story by Jonge is precious. It involves much screaming, a big hug is always necessary, and then we must put out our hand and tell the deer "BACK!" in a strong and firm voice. The story ends with Jonge saying "No deer in the house! NO!".

If I notice any more mice (three, to date) I plan to try this out on them.