Esther

 

Tonight we watched "One Night with the King," mainly because this week is Purim, which of course the story of the Esther from the Bible.  The four of us sat together and watched the movie, which of course adds a few things that aren't in the Bible.  But it was a decent movie, and a great tag-on to the small group tonight led by Camille and Lauren.  The two of them also talked about Esther in small groups, so that by the end of this evening, I felt like Madison really knew this story backwards and forwards.  Again, the movie isn't exactly like the Bible telling of it, which is something we knew from our reading of it a few weeks ago.

Madison also had piano this evening, which went well of course.  The years go by.  Off the top of my head, I can't tell you how long ago it was that she was in with Mrs. Pam's class.  It seems so long ago.  We still show up at that same little building there, although now it's just Madison and her teacher there.   We drive over there during the small group lesson, so I get to hear the message from that too.  Afterwards, she's on her way into piano class. I sit in the parking lot, and Madison practices with her teacher.  And she brings her screaming goat along.  It's a small plastic goat that when you press a button on the bottom, he (or she) screams.  Madison is relentless with it!  But it's somewhat of a mascot too.  Anyway, she was playing piano tonight, this after small groups, and then a tiny bit of math homework.  She's been doing quadratics again, or as she likes to call them "quack quack." She's also still studying Anne Frank in literature, and studying Newton with her Physics class.  She also had Live to Give this afternoon after school, and the group has grown too.  She's enjoying that.

Mom is going to make hamantaschen for tomorrow, and that's going to be exciting.  Tonight, given that we just watched and did a small group on Esther, we saved the Bible reading for tomorrow night.  For one thing, the movie was longer than I remembered it being.  We prayed tonight, of course for Nana, and for all of us and our health.  

We did read a bit from the Black Spires Outpost though, and that's been pleasant.  Nothing much happening in the book, but we're getting some behind-the-scenes on some of the locations there at Galaxy's Edge.  Someday we'll get there!