This is Viking Princess' prayer on Monday after seeing a 'real' rainbow the day before while she was outside playing;

"...Thank you that I saw a rainbow with no sprinklers. I just thank you that rainbows comed alive. And thank you that sprinklers have rainbows too. Amen."

     It was so cute how she made the distinction between a 'live' rainbow and one that is made by a sprinkler. But that those are nice too:)

     I just love little one's prayers.

     I had also seen this same rainbow that evening while I was on my way out to get a birthday gift for VP. I was driving along and being rather wreckless in trying to get a full glimpse of this most gorgeous rainbow. It was an evening rainbow which are often so vibrant as the sun is setting. I was so blessed by it's glory and magnitude. I could see both ends of it and it even had a double above it. It was such a true tangible reminder of the fact that God does indeed keep his promises and he is a good God. I needed that and I'm glad that my little daughter got blessed by it too:)



(a site with beautiful rainbow pictures I came across, the second one is a great example of an evening rainbow much like the one I saw.)
http://www.atoptics.co.uk/rainbows/bowims.htm

The other day I came downstairs to my daughter playing all by herself. She was dressed up in a princess dress all pink and frilly carrying around her brother's wooden sword with quite a purposeful look. When she saw me she hid behind the door and peeked out with her sword at the ready. "Oh phew," she said, "it's you!"

Obviously she had been in deep make-believe land. I was tickled and played along. Where did you get that sword?

" My father," she said with a pretend accent.

"Who is your father?" I queried.

She said my husbands name, like, duh, who do you think, mom? ( I never know whether she is in or out of character)

Then  I said, "I thought you were going to say the king or something like that."

She looked at me all funny and said, "Well Dad IS the king!"

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Strange question from my 12-year-old; Monkey boy asked me the other day, "Mom, if you and Dad, like, accidentally had another baby would you keep it?"

"Of course!!!"

I was surprised to hear this question. I know he meant would we maybe give it up for adoption, but still. It was weird. I guess it was cause it was on the heels of talking about how we weren't planning to have anymore but it still surprised me.