December 5 – “Shrimp and Shopping”

We started our day today with our little drama queen.  Yes, that would be Cailyn.  She is recovering from a bout with pneumonia that didn’t really slow her down all that much.  It did make her a bit crabby, but hey, when I have pneumonia, expect crabby.  She really wasn’t all that bad, but you could tell she wasn’t feeling a hundred percent yet.  She was fine when I took her with me to get some donuts for breakfast, though.  Very excited, in fact.  She let me know that they didn’t have a “donut stop” over by where they live.  At least not one that has donuts with pink icing and sprinkles.  She downed two of those without taking a breath.  I thought briefly that she was going to return to one of the conversations we had a while back.  She was determined to know what her Daddy got grounded for when he was a little boy.  Not sure where that came from.  We thought maybe she had been grounded from something, but what do you ground a four-year-old girl from?  No Barbies today?  She was quite insistent about getting some dirt on dear old Daddy, though.  We were having a hard time coming up with something to tell her.  At least something that we could tell her.  Not that her Daddy spent most of his time on the grounded list.  But then again, there were a few times … 

Chris and I actually had a chance yesterday to go together to do some Christmas shopping.  Jennifer came over and stayed with for a few hours.  Our destinations were WalMart and Target, of course.  Where else do you go if you live on an island and see a trip to the Mainland as a major undertaking?  We did have lunch at Shrimp and Stuff, too, so I guess that counts as a real-live date, doesn’t it?  Shrimp and Shopping.  There’s one for your dating manual.  We found a few things, but by no means are we done.  Jennifer has agreed to come back next Wednesday so we can have another shot at it.  Hey, maybe this every Wednesday date thing will catch on.  That IS in the dating manual, by the way.  It doesn’t matter so much what you do (even if it is shopping).  The important thing is that you do it.

Ephesians 5:25-28 says, “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing  her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.  In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies.”

Father, thank you for the special lady you gifted me with.  And thank you for the model you gave on how to love her.  Help me choose to follow that model in every part of our relationship.  Amen.