Sep. 17, 2009 - Snakes and Bombs
It's been an exciting week here. For living in the middle of nowhere so we can lead a quiet, unstressed life, sometimes we sure have some adventure!
Sunday night, Chris took 4 of the kids on a nature walk. They do that weekly as part of science, which Chris teaches the 6th graders on down. They walk through the woods for 30-60 minutes and choose one interesting thing to draw a picture about for their nature/science notebook.
When they arrived home Sunday night they were all excited to tell me what happened!
The 5 of them were walking single file near an old logging road on the top of our hill in the woods and Josiah was in the lead. Hosanna yelled out, "Josiah, a SNAKE!" With Chris right behind Hosanna, he said that Josiah had stepped just inches from the head of a coiled up Timber rattler that had it's head up and it's mouth open. Nobody is sure why the snake didn't strike Josiah's leg. Chris took a stick and pinned it's head down and used his pocket knife to chop the head off...then the rattle so we could have proof of the memory-making moment. Chris said it was like the snake was frozen still and couldn't move to strike.
I know that it was a supernatural God thing! I regularly pray over our children and whole family...I pray Scripture that "No weapons formed against us would prosper all who rise up against us would fall" pray a "hedge of protection" around us and that "God would give His angels charge over us to protect us in all our ways." I praise the Lord for, once again, keeping one of my children safe. I also thank Him for all the times He protects them that we never even realize. I mean, living in the middle of the woods, who knows how many times they have walked near a snake or black widow spider and been saved from harm.
And today, the mailman delivered a really unusual looking package. It was covered in an unusual type of cloth material and actually sewn closed around the package. It was addressed from India. We don't have any friends in India? It seemed really fishy. My first thought was "A BOMB!" But I was wondering in the back of my mind why terrorists from India would send a bomb to a homeschool mom...but nonetheless, when Chris offered to open up the package I readily agreed and suggested, quite possibly, it might be a good idea to open it up by himself outside with a fire extinguisher. (Ya'll are laughing but I know you think like this too!)
Chris opened it up to find-----a magnetic travel chess set that Noah ordered though ebay for his birthday. WHEW...that was a close one. We had no clue they played chess in India! Haha
And so ends the exotic adventures of the Sweet Savages... for today anyway.
Comments
Sep. 17, 2009 - Untitled Comment
Posted by Anonymous
Wow, thank goodness God protected him.......That is an amazing story !!!!!! My uncle was bit when he was about Josiah's age by a rattle snake, my grandma beat it with a garden hose!?? ( I guess they were heavier back then) She put it in a jar so that the doctors would believe her and when she got there they did not at first ......until,she went and got the jar she had put the snake in...lol....I bet they were shocked !!!! Char
Sep. 18, 2009 - Untitled Comment
Posted by Eunice
Well....I already knew about the snake, but had to chime in on 'the bomb'. I would have put it way out in the yard and thrown rocks at it. The poor chess set would have been history :O)
That was so funny! And btw, what good would a fire estinguisher have done? Explain it to me so that I can know your reasoning for any bombs that are sent our way :O)
Sep. 18, 2009 - Untitled Comment
Posted by Eunice
Well....I already knew about the snake, but had to chime in on 'the bomb'. I would have put it way out in the yard and thrown rocks at it. The poor chess set would have been history :O)
That was so funny! And btw, what good would a fire estinguisher have done? Explain it to me so that I can know your reasoning for any bombs that are sent our way :O)
Sep. 20, 2009 - I got a chess set from the same guys before
Posted by seasonsmom
hey, girl! That was awesome! God is definitely honoring your prayers! Keep it up, busy mom!
As far as the chess set. I wasn't as surprised as you were since I mailed package the same exact way when I lived overseas. I just had no clue that mine was coming from India, though I should have checked the seller. It was a package with just wooden pieces. I was a bit bummed that it didn't have the board. The description said chess set, but it's ok. Live and learn. We paid 99c for it and the shipping was 20. LOL! It was coming from India, no wonder! Good luck with chess and we are very proud of Noah's Bible bee accomplishments! No one in N Cali scored as high.
