Who blogs on a regular basis? Not this girl. Seriously, I set the bar way too high for myself once again. But, I am determined to keep this thing up. My original goal was to post one time a week. Obviously, we’ll be scaling that back to once a month.
We have been really, really busy this lately. Especially this week…busy preparing to have the girls dedicated this coming Sunday. Which is why we flipped another coin around here…
When I was pregnant, people would naturally always ask how we decided to name each girl “their” name. I wish I had some well thought out scientifically based answer, but no. We had two names picked out, but which one goes to whom? The teacher in me wanted to go in alphabetical order. Camryn is first alphabetically so why not that be Baby A’s name? Made sense to me. Adam did not agree. His granddad was very special to him and left him some commemorative coins. He got out one of the first coin his grandfather gave him and we flipped it. No I’m not kidding, and turned out that Claire became baby A and Camryn Baby B. Backwards alphabetically….yes it bothered me, but I have to let some things go. J
Well, it happened again. A predicament of sorts…at our church you are asked to give a life verse for each child. Easy right? We have two children so Adam picks out a verse and I pick out a verse but which verse goes to which girl? What to do? Well, we’ll just flip the coin again. Apparently, any issues that should arise throughout their lives, we’ll be flipping coins to be fair and square.
Commentary from Adam:
Being a man, there are naturally only two civilized ways of settling almost any situation where an agreement cannot be easily reached: paper-rock-scissors or you flip for it. Obviously the first method is nonsensical for this application. By a process of elimination the only fair way to settle this is by flipping a coin (a special coin at that). I’ve been called many things in life but I’ve never been called unfair. Most of you reading this are probably from the South or have either spent a great deal of time here. I pose a question to you, how does a college football game start? With a coin toss! Considering how deeply ingrained college football into our southern roots, this is an excellent example of why this seems to be a logical solution to the problems we have faced. It really is simple, and simplicity is a quality that is high on my good list. We decide who we are flipping for, heads is assigned one verse, tails the other and Ashley calls it in the air. Boom, you’re done and it’s fair! Although life is inherently unfair, one should always practices fairness when given the opportunity. We will save the “life is unfair” speech for when the girls get a bit older. And now back to my beautiful wife!
Adam picked out…
“The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart,” that is, the word of faith we are proclaiming: that if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved, For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved. As the scripture says, “Anyone who trusts in Him will never be put to shame.” Romans 10:8-11
This verse was assigned to Camryn.
I picked out…
“I pray that you, being rooted and firmly established in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and width, height and depth, and to know the Messiah’s love that surpasses knowledge, so you may be filled with all the fullness of God.” Ephesians 3:17-19
This verse was assigned to Claire.
Pictures coming soon... I promise to get caught up on my posts.
By the way, I just bawled my eyes out reading this aloud to Adam the other night.
