Elephants and Trees

My Rebekah I say is my elephant...she does not forget a thing. We were in the car and she asked when she would be finished with 2ND grade. I do not have the exact date figured out so I told her sometime in May. She said I will be in 3rd grade then, right? Now I am wondering where she is going with this so I just wait to hear what she has to say. She informed me that the local bagel shop owner told her she could sell jewelry there when she was in 3rd grade. Here is where the dilemma comes in...she has to work in the cotton candy trailer when she was in the 3rd grade. (She imposed this on herself...and of course I am not going to let my 6 year old go out and get a job) It is just in her mind she has an agenda. Oh yes, the money she thinks she is going to earn is suppose to buy food for the shelter kids and a pair of Heleys for her.

So we were visiting my sister today who has 2 very tall trees in her front yard. Sam asked if he could go climb a tree while I was changing Emma. (I do remember that he did ask... and I do remember saying Yes.) With that being said, at the moment I did not remember any of this. So I finish changing my little one...who in my mind ought to be potty trained...but that is just me... anyway I go to look for Sam and can not find him. I am looking everywhere that I know he usually hides when we play hide and seek. I am surprised but not yet frantic that I can not find my little guy. I continue to call him...looking in closets, hope chests, basement, attic, laundry baskets, etc...about 5 minutes which now feels like a half hour, I remember that he was talking to me while changing Emma. So I go outside and start calling Sam, Sammmmm....I hear ever so faint here mom. Oh my goodness! I yell, stay calm Sam, stay there, no come down slowly I say. Sam was hire than the electric wires that were crossing over the trees...thank God he was on the opposite side of the tree. I was so near a heart attack I am so sure of this. I am trying to tell him where to place each foot as he makes his way down. He says he has to come down in time that he has to get branches for a nest. He is being so methodical about this when I just want to see his feet on the ground so I could go and peacefully have the heart attack my mind is telling me I should be having. Well now that all the girls are outside watching Sammy about 30 feet up the tree, his cousin, Lauren, pretends to pass out and falls in the mud. Now here is a little girl full of mud and not happy about it and there is a 5 year old way up in the tree, happy about it, but the momma isn't. I said Sam when I come out from getting Lauren changed you need to be out of the tree. I go in and help my niece get undressed and here comes Sam running in the room. I saw him run so I quickly assessed that he did not fall out of the tree, but he was so excited that he got down so fast. Wasn't that fast he says proudly. I say enough of that tree! I was so happy to get my little chicks to bed safely tonight. Thank you Lord for watching over Sam today and keeping him safe. I am so amazed at God's mercy.