Answers to unknown requests

There are a lot of things I'm proud of my daughter Ashley for and I get more proud as time goes on.  One thing is that she has no fear of asking others to pray for her at church.  Nearly every week she puts a prayer card in at church and, unlike dad would do, she explicitly marks it to be published in the bulletin every week... and of course it is.  Nearly each week it is something praying for Dennis...

I looked this week to see what she put and sure enough it was about Dennis being able to call his sister which is often a topic... but there was another that was new.  That D could talk to his Ukraine grandmother.  If you read our last post "Ambushed" you'd know D talked to gma, aunt, and a cousin (?) yesterday... but that's not the important part, this was Ashley's unknown prayer request.

* We had tried to call before but gma's phone was "broken"
* We weren't even planning to call Snezhana this week due to Dennis' surgery and we didn't really want him confusing S about what happened
* We didn't actually call Ukraine gma but Snezhana 3-way called her while we were on

What a great way to teach Ashley about answers to prayer.

I was almost flattered by Ashley today too.  Her "punishment" card this morning was that she had to write something nice about everyone in the family.  Mine says I was funny... pretty much every dad wants that... especially when his wife no longer thinks so :)  I was pretty happy until I noticed she wrote everyone was funny... except for Dennis who she likes to play with.  Oh well... it was nice while it lasted.

Dennis woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning.  Not sure what it is about Sunday's and being cranky... even went to bed on time.  He likes going to church and does well.  He ended up insisting he would control where/what we were going to eat (MCDONALD's, CHICKEN, PIZZA, ICE CREAM!!! <repeat>).  Instead he ended up on the timeout bench missing lunch... and spending another 1-2hrs there until he decided he could apologize.  He makes an excellent object lesson for the other kids... I get to ask them things like "What do you think the chances are he's going to get what he wants by this behavior?" ... fortunately each gave the right answer :)

Ashley's helping him stay "level" now that he's reconciled.  She's such a big help.