A Grand Day

I helped out with centres in Rose's class today.  It is International Week in Elementary, which is a very fun week.  I missed the parade at the beginning of the day - I always forget the opening parade!
Grade 1 are "visiting" North America - taking in Canada, the US and Mexico.  I did the inside centres and Bonnie had the energetic work down on the playground - dog sledding and hockey.  It was fun.
During merienda my delightful daughter was singing "Lord I lift Your Name Up High" to herself as she coloured in (a reward for being 'great' on the behaviour chart last week).  It was very cool.
After we finished I headed home.  Naomi and Joshua were playing beautifully together when I arrived home.  They were re-enacting "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" with their lego people.  The peanut brittle hole to be exact!
The three of us went shopping.  Naomi chose 3 things today - chocolate milk, chocolate biscuit dippy snack and strawberry iced tea juice drinks and didn't like any of them when we got home and she tried them!  Josh bombarded me with theological questions: Was God born? Where is heaven? What is heaven like?  What does the Bible say about where heaven is? Is God boy or girl? What is a spirit? and on and on.  I barely answer one before the next pops out!  It certainly makes me think about what I believe and how to explain it simply without reducing it.  When I was answering him about heaven and he asked me what the Bible said, I was delighted that he understands the Bible to be what we base our faith on.  Probably need to swot up on my systematic theology tonight!
After shopping we had a late lunch, a brief rest and up to school to pick up.  I dropped off the boys and was heading for an x-ray with Rose when I remembered I needed the referral slip.  Could not find it anywhere. Tried to ring Steve - he'd already left to run home which meant at least a 30 minute wait. We have no idea where it went so I have to ring the clinic tomorrow and try and get a verbal referral from a dr whose next clinic is not till Friday at that particular place!  Because I don't want to pay for another consultation just to get a slip of paper.
The absolute highlight of today was hearing my niece had been born at 5:45 a.m. GMT.  Esther Hope has made her grand entrance into this world.  I'm sad I am not there but I am delighted to be an aunty. I can't believe my baby bro is a daddy though.  I am still waiting for photos.....
And I should be preparing for preschool tomorrow but I'm blogging instead.  Tut, tut.  Priorities!