Quotes from Small Voices

L3 (5yrs): Mommy and me unloaded the dishwasher without one single complainment!

L3 (5yrs. Looking at the pretend map in his hand): We are close away from our car. That’s what my map says.

during our time in Georgia in March…

L3 (age 5): Mom, when Daddy and my brothers both die and it’s just you and me left, I’ll take care of… <pauses and takes a deep breath> …my brother’s Lego Mobile Command center and make sure it doesn’t get broken.

L1 (8yrs) upon seeing an airport beacon light circling brightly in rural Kansas at night: Look! It’s a lighthouse!

L2 (7yrs): You know, everyone sins at least one time. Moses sinned twice.

MrsA to L2 (7yrs): Why did you whack your brother with your stuffed animal?

L2: Because I was thinking. And sometimes when I’m thinking, my brain sets aside kindness so it has room for more thoughts.

From the 8yr old…
… And then Absalom was riding along and got his hair got in a tree and then along came Joab and shot him!

We’ve been reading through Bible quiz questions at supper time as a family. This one was a fill in the blank…

What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his own ______?

Me trying to get the younger boys to think about what the answer might be: If you had everything in the world, but there was one thing that you didn’t have and it made everything else worthless… what might that item be?

L3 (7yrs): Doggy?

L3: Canyons and mountains are both the same except canyons go deeper and mountains go higher.

We got a snow storm on the 8th of September this year.

L1 (8yrs): It’s unexpectable!