Temple of Heaven

Each day lately, we've been reading from our journal of 2008.  This was ten years ago today, and we're reading each day of our adventures in China.  Ten years ago today we were at the Beijing Zoo, seeing a surplus of pandas, and then the Summer Palace, and then later on that day, the Temple of Heaven.  Madison is more into the reading this year, and it's been a good habit to be together, recalling the journey of a lifetime where we first met our little girl.  Gotcha Day is approaching, and that marks ten years.  It seems like we waited so long, and now it's already been a decade after that.

We had KidPak tonight, and Daddy needed to come up with something, so he went to Madison and the two of us wrote out a skit to go with this weekend's message, the one about Syndrome.  It turned out well, and worked out good in service tonight.  Madison was in the audience when we did it, and the kids were all laughing throughout.  More importantly, it was a message about hanging out with the right people, and making the right friends.  It was a shorter service, but it went very well.

It's been raining a lot lately, and the lake has been more than full for quite some time.  The grass is lush and it seems fairly predictable that there will be a rainstorm each evening coming through.  They haven't been so violent, but they've been filled with heavy rain, along with a quiet rumble here or there.

We're nearly done with our next book, "The Austere Academy," finishing up another two chapters tonight.  We should be done tomorrow night, I think, and therefore Daddy reserved the next book in the series at the library, where we'll be heading off to sometime soon, I'm sure.

In the meantime, Madison has been working on her painting some today, as well as doing some piano.  She's also building an epic Minecraft home on and off.  It's a much more relaxed week, certainly compared to the last few.  That's okay.  We love sleeping in, and it's been good for us to get some rest back.

Daddy wrote another message today, and is almost done with the messages for "Superflix" in July.  Madison has been helpful there, pointing out places where there could be some Biblical point.  She's excited about one movie we'll probably watch tomorrow, "Wonder," and has all kinds of notes for me already!