Connection

I was explaining something to the boys this morning and they didn't get it, so then i said "well this is what normal people would do"  Why did i say that?  Were we not "normal"??  Obvioulsy not!

We once saw a moving van and the boys asked what it was, so we had to explain it to them that this is how people normally move (that word again!)  And even though we have moved countless times, they have never experienced this normal kind!  So how "normal" do we live?

It got me thinking...
When we need bread, i bake it, when we feel like pizza we make it ourselves (or drive 150km to buy some that is kind of good), when i feel the need to talk to a friend, i blog or open facebook (not very sucsessful ways, i know, but you have to work with what you 've got!), we have to teach our boys some things about our own culture - they can't jsut observe like normal little A's can!  We take holidays in strange places and once one of our children when asked in our home country where he comes from he answered just that - i am from (the home country)"  when actually he lives in M and was only born in his home country!  We have never given a lesson about different currencies to our kids - they figure it out themselves - we have 5 different currencies in our money drawer!  Etc, etc!!  Very Normal??   I think not!


But there is always the  other side of the coin too!  Our boys actually have time to play!  Yes, PLAY!!  They grow up not just having a vague idea of the lost and suffering, they see them daily.  They are our friends!  "father give us our daily bread" is not some fancy words from the Bible repeated effortless ona Sunday - God is the one who takes care of us every day!! 

And as a good friend recently said (thank you Nickey!) we try and live a normal life in abnormal surroundings, maybe we should live a bit more abnormal and then it will all balance out?  Quite a thought!!

And so off i go - to infinity and beyond!