Saturday we drop off 2ds at Flamenco with our cookies for their open house.  I come back home with the other boys to meet Aunt Flo in the driveway.  She is quite upset that we weren't home when she arrived.  I tell her I am quite sorry that I had no idea she was coming and give her a tall glass of something cold to drink, a pill and tell her to go lie down.  The boys work on picking up the house.  We fix lunch and then go pick up 2ds but on the way we were listening to a Diane Waring tape about history of the world.  She said something about recently reading that there was a possibility that King Tut would have been the Pharaoh after the Exodus and the parting of the Red Sea.  Well curious minds want to know if that could possibly be and we spend the next 2.5 hours "researching" and come to the conclusion that nobody will ever really know for certain which Pharaoh it was unless we find more proof somewhere (and we have our own theories of which Pharaoh it is after our deep-sea unit study on Egypt a few years ago but it certainly wasn't Tut). HOWEVER, the very intriguing thing we did read was that the Israelites possibly crossed the Red Sea 3 days after Passover which would make the crossing of the Red Sea on the Feast of First Fruits (which btw is what most Christians refer to as Resurrection Sunday) and that just blew me away with the significance and the parallels to Christ's death - how the temple curtain torn/the red sea parted, how they escaped the Pharaoh/how Jesus escaped death, how the Red Sea covered the Pharaoh’s army/how Jesus' blood covers our sins --- and so then I spent the next bit trying to find out if it was true or not.  It makes sense to me but I had never related the two events in that way.  While I was on my own little bunny trail, dh called & said they were going to let him work some overtime so he would come home for dinner and then go back to work.  The boys asked if they could fill up his truck with sand again while he was at work and I entertained Aunt Flo.

Sunday DH was off.  We had planned on going to church but I guess the battery went out on our clock in the kitchen and nobody noticed the time anywhere else in our house because when we got in the car, we were already 35 minutes late for services so we turned the car around and came home.  The boys wanted to work some more on sand and dh thinking they would give up in the heat and with all the work said sure.  Those boys filled the truck FOUR times today -- that is more than 60 wheel barrels.  I cleaned up some flower beds while we listened to Dave Ramsey online (I wish I wouldn't have missed his town hall for hope broadcast last Thur. & that was what I was looking for).  We go to AWANA that evening, showers and a movie because my boys deserved it for all their hard work.

Aunt Flo wants some leftover birthday cake so I will go entertain her and go to bed.

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