Prayers

I love listening to my kids now that they have learned to pray all by themselves. At dinner last night Trinity asked a special blessing for Dad, "to not get his toes black at work". The last time he had drill they did a 6 mile ruck march (which means they went hiking with a HUGE bag of all their stuff strappon their backs) and earned a few nasty blood blisters on his toes that turned really dark. He is at drill again this weekend & I see that she is very concerned for his feet! :) She also includes in almost every prayer, "we love everyone", and peeks quickly to reprimand anyone who isn't sitting with eyes closed and arms folded.

Tonight at dinner Brinley said something in her prayer like, "please help us not to be sad because we miss our friends, and please help our friends not to be sad when they think of us and miss us so much because we moved so far away." (this move has been a lot harder on her than I expected. She talks about "our friends" almost EVERY day) she continues with, "Please help Grayden to stop hitting us," (I peeked at this point to see if her eyes were still closed, and found her with her arms folded, raised up to her for-head staring at Grayden. She continued), "help everyone to keep their arms folded, and be quiet when someone else is saying the prayer." (This whole time Grayden has his eyes open, but squinted, as he pushes his plastic bowl to his face flattening his nose and lips for anyone else, who happens to be peaking, to see) Near the end she says, "we bless the food again" (making it a total of 3 blessings on the food for this prayer) and ends quickly looking to me for praise on her fantastic prayer.

Which I happily gave.

P.S. Grayden's version of saying the prayer is as follows:

"Dear Henly Fader, dank-ful dis day. Bess a food... Je-us K-I-st........AMEN!" (most of the time he tries to sneak a bite of food or a drink in while he is saying his very long prayer)

I am so lucky