I had one of those days where not much went right and the day definitely didn't go as I planned.  Prayer time with the kids has really been frustrating me in the past week as I try to balance the abilities to pay attention with wanting to instill a love for God, prayer and his Word.  This morning I tried to keep it short and sweet.  We sang our memory verse from the Memory Bible and then I went right into prayer time.  We put all of our family's names (us, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc) into a basket and we pray that God would sovereignly choose for us who needs prayer for the day.  Each child gets to pick a name(had to start this because everyone was fighting over praying for daddy & Aunt Kelly!) and pray for the person they picked.

So this morning, EF picked AF.  Since she's only 2.5 usually, I pray and she repeats after me but today she was determined to do it HERSELF!  And she did.  She prayed that he would have a good day, that he wouldn't cry too much and that he would be safe.  I was so proud of her!!

Fast forward a few hours later and the morning had been chaotic, the plans I had made for the evening (B has a pastor's conference this week so he's been getting in late) with some friends seemed to be falling apart - you know, one of those days where it's like why don't I ship you all off to school???  I let CJ push AK in the stroller in the backyard and the stroller tipped over and AK's head hit the concrete HARD a couple times!!!  So we had  the initial panic, the calling of Brent to see if I should take him to the dr, the calming down of CJ because she felt so bad, then realizing that EF had wet the bed during her nap, trying to get everyone together so we could meet some friends for dinner.  I was relaying the story to a friend and telling her how amazed I am that he only has a little scratch & bump.  And as I talked I remembered that EF had prayed for him this morning to be safe!!!!!!!!!  Never underestimate the power of prayer -- even the prayer of a 2.5yo.  And always try to think of at least a few positive things that happen each day because there always are some, even if it doesn't seem like it.