A Pirates Life for Us??

Regan needs to strengthen his right eye. So our eye doctor told us we need to patch his good eye. Start with counting to a minute. Then work your way up to two hours a day. Broken up is fine because of the adhesive.

So today I tried it in my own creative, piratey way.

I tried to get Regan to "play pirates" so we could have eye patches and a sword fight with blocks. I put my patch on first - my patch was a extra large band aid. Then I looked for "swords". Then I looked for a Disney Sing a Long dvd with a Pirate's Life song/skit. Then I put his on him and held him. I hit the timer to see how long we would go. I kept pushing the pirate theme on him. "A Pirate's Life for me...." "Let's have a sword fight." "Arg!" Then after 50 seconds, he peeled off his patch and ran away from me. "Come back here or I'll make you walk the plank...me hearty!!" I used up all my pirate lingo. I tried to coax him back but he kept his distance. I then peeled off my "patch" which had become part of my skin and hurt a lot to remove it. I think I had mine on for about 7 minutes. Yay me!

So here's the score:
Regan 50 seconds
Mommy 7 minutes

Both of us have red marks around our eyes from adhesive. And neither one of us have love for a Pirate's Life.

Argggggggggggg...

His Strategy for Perfect Peace

You will keep him in perfect peace, Whose mind is stayed on You, Because he trusts in You. – Isaiah 26:3 (NKJV)

Isaiah 26:3 (Amplified Bible)

3You will guard him and keep him in perfect and constant peace whose mind [both its inclination and its character] is stayed on You, because he commits himself to You, leans on You, and hopes confidently in You.

Tonight, I'm tired. Life has been busy. It's almost unbelievable how busy and crazy our lives have been lately--- I want to say "lately" but I can't really put a cap on the timing.

I wanted to share this verse (see above) but I really didn't know what to blog along with it. I'm too tired to be clever or funny. And I'm really too tired to be serious enough to blog something really deep.

So just go back and read the verse. I think it's one I'll have to keep in front of my face for a long time. In fact, I don't know when it wouldn't apply.