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Ethan, holding his Mom\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hand, at Sea World<\/p>\n
We have 2 boys, Payton and Ethan, both age 8. Payton is very sensitive to other\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s feelings; very much at home snuggled in a chair, reading a book; content to let the other person win in whatever game he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s playing. Ethan is your typical \u00e2\u20ac\u0153boy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s boy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. Loves sports; loves competition; hates losing. My boys have lots in common, and yet they are SO different. Two things I observed today:<\/p>\n
Our church has Sports Camp this week. At the end of each day, all the kids (probably 150 or so) gather together in the gym, sit on the floor and have their last group bible lesson. Today, I was sitting in a chair in the back (parents had started arriving to pick their kids up), waiting for the lesson to start. The kids were all sitting, but hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t been \u00e2\u20ac\u0153called to order\u00e2\u20ac\u009d yet and so they were all talking, etc. Ethan walked up to me (in his typical boy \u00e2\u20ac\u0153swagger\u00e2\u20ac\u009d) and promptly sat on my lap. Now, how cool is that? My 8 year old boy couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t care less if it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cool or not cool to hop on his mom\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lap in front of all his friends. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know how long this will last, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s heaven to me.<\/p>\n
Tonight, the kids were all in various stages of getting ready for bed. Payton was ready quickly, and sat down to read his bible. He started to read about Daniel and then heard me comment on the story of Joseph to Abbey\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6so he decided to find that one instead. After prayers, he told me he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to have a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153lemonade stand\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, only instead of selling lemonade, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d want to sell bibles. He said he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d sell them for $5\/bible. He smiled, and headed off to bed. Now, how many 8 year old boys have the idea of a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153bible stand\u00e2\u20ac\u009d?? He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s young, but he has a heart for God and for teaching others about Jesus.<\/p>\n
It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been a good day to be a Mom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ethan, holding his Mom\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hand, at Sea World We have 2 boys, Payton and Ethan, both age 8. Payton is very sensitive to other\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s feelings; very much at home snuggled in a chair, reading a book; content to let the other person win in whatever game he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s playing. Ethan is your typical \u00e2\u20ac\u0153boy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s boy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. Loves […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}