It's been a fun filled week while YaYa was here.  From going to the dump to going to the zoo, reading inside and playing out, and so much more!  Sadly she had to leave this morning.

We were not able to see Our Marine this weekend as the funeral for his Marine was changed to tomorrow instead of today so they won't be getting back in time for us to see him before he goes into the field for the week.  We are just praying God's hand in our plans to see him next!

So far my Beloved has said that everything has been going well and the family is taking everything very well.  We still pray for them in their time of grief.

I wanted to share a few things that Little Monkey has said over the past few days since all of this has happened.  I was trying to explain to him why Daddy couldn't be home this week and told him that one of his Marine's had been hit by a car and died.  After telling him this he said:

"Mama, can we pray for her?"

and I said, "we can't really pray for her, she is either in Heaven with God because she believed He was her savior or she is in hell because she did not believe God was her Savior, but we can pray for her family that they won't be sad."

He said ok and we did just that.  It was so sweet and touching!

The following day when I told him that Daddy had to go to AZ he asked:

"to pay money to bring his Marine back to life?"

I said, "no he can't pay money to bring her back to life.  But he is going to bury her and be loving to her family." 

I then tried to help him recall my grandmama's funeral last year.  He remembered and thought that it was nice that Daddy was doing this.

Yesterday we had Daddy to Thanksgiving Dinner via his picture at the head of the table!  It was sweet and sad at the same time!  I cooked my first Thanksgiving Dinner and had a request for my Beloved's to be frozen for him to eat when he comes home next, so it is in the freezer as week speak, or type as the case may be. LOL  We had fun while cooking.  Little Monkey helped a little with the cooking, he decoreated the table with YaYa and read some Thanksgiving books.  We played a little outside too.  Since we have been reading about Squanto Little Monkey wanted to be an Indian.  Earlier in the week we made a beaded necklace and feathered head band.  I also made him an indian outfit out of some scrap materials.  YaYa painted his face and we had a little Indian boy to dinner with us.  Afterwards we decided to go to the Drive In Theater.  We are so blessed to have the last drive in in SC here inour town.  They don't always have great movies on, but every once in awhile we catch them and it is so nice and easy to go and be in your own car instead of having to lug around children and bags and make sure they are quiet.

Tomorrow we will be meeting my parents, sister, BIL and niece about 2hrs south of here in GA to spend the day. That should be a fun way to end our weekend before we worship in the House of our Lord on Sunday!

Have a blessed weekend!