Rise and Read Breakfast at School

Yesterday was the Rise and Read Breakfast at the school for Kindergarten and 1st Graders so I went with Sydney to the school. She was extremely tired or just dragging getting ready so we were a little late getting there. She was still eating her cinnamon roll when the first bell rang. We still had reading to do. We did get the reading done before all the kids came in for school but it sure was a close one. I love spending time with Sydney at her school. She loves having me there too. She asked me if I would pick her up after school too but I told her she would be riding the bus home with Charlie as usual. She seemed a little disappointed but accepted it.

Rise and Read for 2nd grade through 4th grade is Thursday and Charlie asked Chuck to read with him this year. Chuck did this last year with Charlie too. I am sure they won’t be late as we were but it should be fun.

When Ashley and Eric were in those grades in school, they had Muffins with Mom and Donuts with Dad which was about the same thing.

Fireproof

Have you seen the movie Fireproof? If you haven’t, you should. My brother sent it to us for Valentine’s Day this year. We watched it last night and loved it!

It was made by a large church in Georgia with a budding movie ministry and the only professional actor is Kirk Cameron. The movie is about a fireman (Caleb) who has it all together on the job but his marriage has fallen apart. He feels that his needs are not being met and he is angry and frustrated. His wife is lonely and angry. With divorce hanging over their heads and nearly inevitable, his dad comes in and offers HOPE and challenges Caleb to take a 40-day Love Dare. In following this challenge, Caleb finds that he himself was pushing away the hand of God just like his wife pushed his hand away. The faith he receives from God is what enables him to finish what he started – to finish, no matter what the outcome.

Marriage is not as easy as society portrays it. Marriage requires commitment, sacrifice, trust, communication, time and effort from both husband and wife. But if you put all that into your marriage, what you will get out of it is SO MUCH worth the effort you put into it.

Anyway, after watching the movie, Chuck and I agreed that we have that and we have experienced all of the “for better – for worse, for richer – for poorer, in sickness and in health” over the past nearly 9 years we have been together and we know that we have what it takes to make our marriage last a lifetime.

Thank you Kevin for sending this movie to us. I borrowed some of your words for this post but they hold true for us as well as for you and Rose too. We truly loved the movie.