We made a little detour on our way to our
big meeting about our Alaska trip this summer (Time is counting down. Just four
months to go). We veered across and
stopped in Waco. Christi forgot her iPad
and Caleb left a deck of cards and Josh left some medicine when they were at
our house for Spring Break. We just became
the return agents.
The first order of the day when we arrived
was to fill out bracket predictions for the NCAA men’s basketball
tournament. Apparently we had stumbled
upon a little family tradition. They
insisted I fill one out as well, and Christi even gave me her bracket. I felt kind of like an interloper, but she
insisted that she would just help Luke out with his. Three of them picked Duke. Well, Caleb picked Virginia, then Duke, then
Virginia, then Duke again, so he might still be working on his final
selection. Luke picked Tennessee. I picked Gonzaga. I always pick Gonzaga. Every year.
Why? I just think it’s a cool
name. Don’t you enjoy just saying it? GonZAGa.
Great fun.
We did watch a little NBA ridiculousness,
but the best part of the night was when Josh put on some videos of Disney
princess songs. AnnaGrace was dressed in
a princess costume, and she was dancing and whirling around, occasionally
joining in with the song. Very
cute. But even more … er … memorable …
was the background karaoke singing by Caleb and Zakary. Chris got some of it on video, enshrined for
posterity.
Yesterday I was challenged to a game of
indoor basketball by Luke. That soon
transitioned into a makeshift soccer match.
When Christi called halftime, Luke announced that I was ahead
18-15. I had no idea how that score came
about. His point structure was beyond
me. After school officially ended for the
day, he convinced his mom that I needed to see the movie Space Jam, starring
Michael Jordan. He watched a good five
minutes with me, then drifted into something else. I was doing some drifting of my own,
especially during the cartoon parts. We
never finished that movie. But we did
watch a few episodes of Mickey Mouse with AnnaGrace. Didn’t look like the Mickey Mouse Club I remember
watching. But she knew all the
characters. And used every opportunity to dance along with the singing. Have I said before that she is really
cute? She is really cute …
James 5:16 says, “Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so
that you may be healed. The prayer of a
righteous person is powerful and effective.”
Father, thank you for the chance to slip
into the world of Mickey Mouse and bold dancing and audacious singing and
strange soccer rules. Amen.
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