Hip-Hop Bunny

Lots of testing this week, so Madison was spending a good deal of time studying.  She's got Spanish, then Social Studies and Math, and then Science.  She's got A averages in all her classes except Math, so hopefully this will be just enough of a bump for her in that math class - we'll see.  The grades get posted much, much later in that class.  And she's doing fine in the class, so we're not really worried.  She'll be fine!

There has been lots of planning for Easter too.  Someone donated all these Bibles, thousands of them, and every student that goes to church Sunday will get a really nice quality Bible.  It's going to be fantastic for the families.  

It's been tough this week at home with Nana.  She's just not happy most of the time, and that of course is a drain on us as a family.  We're trying to turn things around there, but it's been hardest on Mom.  We're trying to do what we can to help out.  Sometimes Madison will blurt out, "High Five!" She does this when Nana is having one of her episodes, and the intent is to be a distraction.  It would be, under normal circumstances, fairly annoying.  But the very thing that causes her to do it is annoying, so there's that.  We sort of roll our eyes and laugh, and the distraction works most of the time.  We're doing the best we can, but sometimes it's like talking to an automated phone system where you hit certain responses and the replies are automated, and you go in circles just desperately wishing you could press "zero" and talk to the operator.  Mom at one time this morning, in tears, said she thought this was harder to go through than the chemotherapy she went through.  That's saying a lot.

We read from Exodus tonight, reading about manna from heaven, and then talking about fish falling from the skies or other seemingly supernatural events.  I just wrote about this recently in a devotional entry for "Storm Chasers," and its pretty interesting to study now, because our understanding of waterspouts is that they don't actually suck up things like a vacuum cleaner, but instead sort of draw them in the spiraling winds, carrying them upwards and elsewhere.  The idea of fish and frogs and jellyfish being carried so far in the clouds and dropped miles away is pretty amazing.

Anyway, we're reading "Kingdom Keepers" too, and that's been fun to read together.  I have a feeling we'll be through with this book much quicker than the last one, as this book has really pulled us along.

It was a decent day, but more of a work day.  I was doing a lot with FC Youth, and then writing some for KidPak's Easter service.  Madison's character will have some lines, and an opportunity to preach some from the stage.  I'm excited about that - she may even do some martial arts on the stage too.  We'll see!

We said our prayers to close out the day.  But one more thing!  

Here comes the bunny, the cool, cool bunny!

Madison and I have been hiding the hip-hop bunny back and forth lately, a super sensitive plush bunny that suddenly starts rapping when he is jostled.  It's been the latest prank toy, usually hidden in unexpected places in the house designed to surprise (or annoy) someone else!  I usually find him underneath my pillow, or Madison will find him inside the martial arts bag on the way out the door.  Anyway, tonight he was under the covers in my bed tonight.  It's been a source of much-needed laughter just before bed.  We've had him a while, and maybe not as long as the Frog Prince, but he's been a welcome addition to the house.  You can hear him quite some distance away, and you know someone's been pranked!