Penultimate

Check out the display case that Mommy made for our time traveling series.  We've only got one more Sunday of the series after this, which is amazing.  Here's the ironic question:  where does the time go?  You can see in there a small Harold Lloyd hanging from a clock, a HG Wells book, "The Time Machine," Sherman and Peabody, a Tardis, a John Cleese Ministry of Silly Walks clock, a Gravity Falls time machine, and of course a whole bunch of "Back to the Future" stuff, including a flux capacitor.

Today's service went really well, a service dedicated to the concept of stopping time.  There was that scripture where the sun was stopped in the book of Joshua, which of course needed to happen so a battle could be won.  But the thing about that battle is that the Israelites didn't need to be fighting it, because they made an alliance with someone they shouldn't have.  And this was because... wait for it... they didn't stop to ask God what He thought they should do.  So anyway, it was all about stopping time.

It was the penultimate* drama in our ongoing series onstage, one that's been wildly unpredictable for the reason that our cast has been in and out all month long.  But amazingly, it's all been pretty sensible as far as the story goes, despite the fact that it is being made up as we go along.  Lots of funny moments for the kids - Madison enjoyed it this morning, especially the bits with our twelve-year-old George Washington Carver character, who is a genius while being obsessed with peanuts.

It was a great morning at church where Madison got that memory verse down easily:  "Be still and know that I am God."  That's Psalm 46:10 NIrV, one of those verses that's easy to remember, and difficult to forget.

The rest of the day was nice outside, although we didn't stay outside much.  Mommy was feeling a little under the weather - still recovering - so we stayed home, rather than go out to see a movie like we intended.  The thinking was that we did something yesterday, and we'll do something tomorrow.  So today, it was back to Isla Sorna to fend off that annoying spinosaurus, and finish up with part three of the LEGO Jurassic World game.

When Mommy woke up, we continued our October movie series with "Igor" and some popcorn.  Again, this movie is underrated.  I misjudged it myself, looking at the cover and thinking it wouldn't be that great. But it is better than you think!  At least we all enjoyed it - we'll keep that one in our collection each October from this point on.

So tomorrow is a field trip, and it'll be a fun one.  That said, we did our usual reading tonight, and everyone was off to bed early.  It's going to be a great day tomorrow, and we all want to be well-rested.  It doesn't hurt that it's nice and cool suddenly, time to burrow in those covers and snuggle where it is warm!

*"Penultimate" is such a great word, isn't it?  I think that's what I'll name this blog entry!