October 20 – “Hisss”

One final anecdote from our Waco trip.  No, still no baby yet.  At one point a decision was made that it was time to play a rousing family game.  There was much discussion between Zak and Caleb as to what that game would be, so we decided to play one of each of their choices.  Zak agreed to wait for his choice of Chutes and Ladders, since he had actually taken Nani in a game earlier.  So we started with Caleb’s choice, a game I personally had never heard of, called Hisss.  That’s not a typo.  It had three “S’s.”  It was a card game where each player draws one card at a time from the master stack.  The cards have portions of a snake drawn on them in various colors, so the idea is to match up the snake portions with other cards already played on the table until a complete snake is formed.  Whoever finishes the snake gets to keep the cards in that stack, and the person with the most cards at game’s end wins.  It wasn’t really as complicated as the explanation may sound.  Unless, of course, you have trouble distinguishing between shades of colors, in which case you definitely need help.  But hey, it was a family game, right?  And I did get a lot of help. 

Now to the memorable part of the story.  When Josh got the cards all ready to begin, Caleb interrupted him with this statement: “I think our guests should go first because that’s the politest thing ever.”  Hey, how sweet is that, right?  Of course what he said next was better than that.  He added, “DadDad, you go first because I like you best.”  There you go.  Take that, world.  Somebody likes me.

Psalms 118:1-4 says, “Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever.   Let Israel say: "His love endures forever."  Let the house of Aaron say: "His love endures forever."  Let those who fear the Lord say: "His love endures forever."”

Father, what else can I say but, “Your love endures forever”?  Amen.