Share your vegetables!

Our church is having Vacation Bible School this week.? It's "Bethlehem Village" from Group.? Each day the kids bring home a daily challenge? with four or five suggestions of how they can live out the Bible point for the day.? One of them today was, "Tell a friend about Bethlehem Village."? Brandon is reading now, so we let him read them.?

His version was, "Tell a friend about Bethlehem vegetables."

Scared

Part of being a mom is taking care of the mundaneness of life - make meals, wipe faces, go to doctor's appointments. Usually none of these things causes a second thought...until a heart murmur is mentioned.

Tell me: If it's normal then why are we talking about it? If it's normal, then why are we scheduling an echocardiogram? If it's normal, why am I so scared that there's the slightest, tiniest, minutest chance that I won't have my baby girl I've loved since she was conceived four years ago with me forever? That there's a possibility that she won't grow up to graduate school, or get married, or have children of her own?

Am I overreacting - I'm pretty sure I am. Do I care?

Not when it comes to my babies.

Man, these things are expensive!

It's estimated that the cost for raising a child to age 18 is approximately $160,000+.? This doesn't include college tuition.

...or the extra $10,000 you'll spend replacing countless bottles and tubes of soap, shampoo, toothpaste, and anything else they can get their grubby little hands on in the name of "my hands were sticky!"