October 22 – “Mario Brothers something or other”

 

 

What a weekend.  First, we were going to go to San Antonio to see Josh and his family.  But we found out that the "hotel" was overbooked.  Some of the college students from Josh's old church in Arlington were coming to see them.  That's twice we have postponed that trip.  Wonder why it's not happening?

 

This weekend is also one of my high school reunions.  Our class was kind of weird about that.  We already did one back in the spring.  It was a very simple.  Just get together at Mario's and hang out.  This one was put together by a different group.  It is way more involved than the first one.  Last night was to be a meet and greet informal get-together.  Then tonight is a formal dance.  They even planned a memorial church service somewhere tomorrow morning.  I would like to have gone to the thing last night.  I'm not so much into formal anythings, much less dances.  And I am expected at Seaside Sunday morning, so the memorial service was out.  Nut the informal meet and greet sounded pretty good.

 

But after we found out we weren't going to San Antonio, Chris told Christina we would baby sit the boys last night while they went to a conference.  I'm sure Chris would have been fine on her own, but it's hard to turn down any shot at spending time with the grandkids.  And it's always good to feel needed.  So last night we headed into Texas to hang out with Jachin, Micah, and Josiah for a few hours. 

 

And of course we were once again schooled in the fine art of Wii gaming.  We watched Jachin and Micah play first.  They were Star Wars characters made out of Legos who were tasked with destroying buildings.  At least that's the only instruction that ever came on the screen.  And sure enough the little characters would smash small structures into a hundred different Lego pieces, which would then reform into futuristic cannons and shotguns and spaceships, which were in turn capable of destroying more structures which reformed into other structures.  It was dizzying.  When it came time for us to join in on the play we switched to Mario Brothers something or other.  That was some better, but when we moved on to driving the little Mario cars I finally felt somewhat in control.  Not that I did any better at the game.  I did come in tenth out of twelve once, but mostly I was eleventh.  Chris was twelfth.  Hey, we were making sure our grandsons maintained their high self-esteem.

 

Proverbs 29:15 says, "The rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother."

 

Father, empower our kids to direct their kids into happy lives.  Amen.