Obedience

Today Rick got to give a talk in church on obedience. (He did a great job!) We had lots of fun conversations about that topic this week. As I was trying to put Liza down for a nap this afternoon, my eyes caught this paper that has been taped to the wall since the summer of 2009 in the boys' room and it made me giggle. It was so fitting to notice after thinking and talking so much about obedience this week. Lexie & Joseph wrote these rules before she started 1st grade when they would play school. They are a pretty good list of rules.

Joseph says #13 is the most important. Lexie says #13 is her favorite. We couldn't agree more.

Also, on a side note, we're grateful for great neighbors. We have such a great neighbor out in Maryland who takes good place of our house out there. We were super nervous about hurricane Irene & the possibility of our basement flooding if the power went out. When Lexie was a baby there was hurricane Isabel when we were living in our apartment in DC. We went up to visit my sister for the weekend in CT & it was a good thing because power was out for a few days & it's just nicer to have power & such with a new baby. Well, during Isabel, the house we bought in Baltimore flooded a bit because the power went out & the sump pump couldn't work. So, we were a bit nervous about that happening again. Last night our neighbor, Lisa, called to see if we had a cell number for our renters so she could go over & plug our sump pump into her generator because again, the power went out. We're so grateful that she did that for us & prevented any possible flooding out there. Lisa is an angel. I don't know what we would do without her & her thoughtfulness for us.