Shopping 'Til You Drop

Madison was picked up early by Nana and Ye-Ye and the cousins, and soon after they were all heading south to do some clothes shopping, and to have a good time together picking up new items to wear around proudly, like these new Converse sneakers Madison picked up today.  She's super proud of them.  Madison was talking about "shopping 'til you drop" today, but she was laughing as she said she actually dropped pretty early on.  It was a long, but fun day.

It was also a busy day today.  We're still editing our footage for our Summer Xtreme, and of course, the second day of Summer Xtreme went online tonight.

Mei-Mei was back online, giving common sense advice, spouting out numbers, and here in this scene above, telling everyone one of the first scriptures she ever memorized - John 3:16.  Of course, these Summer Xtreme events have all kinds of things going on.  The worship sets are amazing, filmed in the warehouse and on stage in OC.  The games are in fields in North Georgia and on Lake Lanier.  The messages are from control rooms at various campuses, and of course the animation is from outer space!  It's been great, of course.

Madison watched it a little later than the premiere time, because she was in taekwondo at 6pm.  She went to the later class because of the shopping trip.  It was funny that during the taekwondo, Daddy was watching it in a watching area, and one of the instructors, Mr. Tucker, came over to take a peek.  He was one of those preaching tonight on the screen, so he got to see himself as it premiered.... and then went back into the studio to continue with the teaching of taekwondo.

Madison had a good day today.  We watched SX20 online, and then ... it was time for the end of season one.  We watched the last episode of "Agents of S.H.E.I.L.D." season one, which of course featured Nick Fury, and that amazing weapon Phil Coulson uses in "The Avengers."  Now Madison is ready to watch season 2, which we might start this weekend - maybe.  We'll see.

We're also almost done with "Artemis Fowl," which is coming to a head here.  It's been a good book, one that has had the three of us hooked early on.  I've read a few other things by the author, but never got around to this one.  The movie of the same name has just been released, so we were interested in reading it to see what it's like - we've always heard it was good.  And it's been.  We should be done soon though!

Tonight we prayed again.  There is so much going on in our country right now, and it hasn't been this bad since... well, last election cycle.  But this time around, it's worse. There are statues toppling all over, and violence, burning buildings, and death.  Police officers are under attack, and people are losing their jobs all over.  It's a tough year, no doubt.  Memes about time travelers doing all they can to avoid this year are showing up, as are the ones that ask, 'What's next?  An alien invasion?"

There's a lot to pray about and pray for.  Hopefully this world will become a better place for Madison.  It may not look like it on the surface, but that's what we pray for.