Martinez Family Journal

I just picked up Drew at school with Hunter, and he said to me "If you ever find my money, can I have it?" Wow, how said he would have to ask this, to wonder if we will find his money at all. Also, to wonder if he can have it! I put his money which had been collected, coins and a few dollars, in a new piggy bank just before we moved, and it has not turned up yet.

Yesterday at breakfast the msot amazing and unexpected thing happened. Wow. I emailed several people right away when this occurred, that was how cool it was. For ages now, we go over Drew's weekly Bible verse memorization during breakfast. We often forget during all the commotion and busy-ness of the morning that Matty is watching and listening and taking everything in. How often I forget this!

So in the middle of me packing lunches, making bereakfast, making myself espresso and making sure Drew was memorizing his current verse, we heard Matty saying something. I didn't recognize what he said, so I asked him to repeat it (with everyone talking at once, it gets a bit crazy here), and, sure enough, he was quoting the Bible verse of last week's. It went something like this "And he went out, not knowing where he was going" from Hebrews 11:8. Neat. He got lots of unexpected attention, once we recognized he was quoting the Bible at age 2, so he kept it up. All AM, I noticed him quoting the Bible verse.

I was just relaxing on the couch thinking about my day, as it is 10 pm, and, all of a sudden, Drew appeared right next to me. He said he had been alseep, and then suddenly realized that he had not given me a hug and kiss that day. This is not unusual for Drew to be so thoughtful, right out of the blue, it is very much like him. I have been SO VERY STRESSED in the last month especially - dealing with the likes of the Creeks and Coldwell Banke,r and he has unfortunately weathered many of my storms. He always asks me if he can do something special for me when he sees me on edge. He frequently asks if he can rub my feet or massage my back. He knows me so well. What did I ever do to deserve him? I do not know.

Yesterday, Matty climbed up in my lap, and, giving me a big hug, said "I love my mommy," and he hardly hesitated before he said "Are you my mommy?" Everybody in the room was laughing!

When Matty was waking up this AM at 7, I went in, and he was cuddling his blanket and said to me immediately "Great Ellen made it." Neat! He remembered all those times I told him that his great grandma made it especially for him. I held him tight, and held the quilt I made for him around his back side, and he pushed it away and only wanted his revered Blankie touching his skin. He repeated it "Great Ellen made it for me." Cool. I called up Grandma and told her about that. ~Mary

God, we not eat. Amen.

Tonight we gave the prayer book to Matty to pray before our meal as usual, and we follow up with Drew saying a prayer also, since Matt's version of praying is a bit short! When Matt was little and just starting to talk, he would grab the prayers book and say "duh da da ba ga (and a lot of garbled speech sounds), done." Now he has graduated to "God, we not eat. Amen." ------ He really did and continues to. It has to come from all the times that I have told the kids not to eat while saying prayers. So for our own enjoyment, we keep asking Matty to say prayers for us nightly, and pray that he continues to say them that same special way.