Two of our kids, Emma and Graham, were riding in the truck with me last night. All three of us were snuggled up in the front seat. We are a snuggly family and even riding together would rather squish upfront. Emma and Graham are the closest in age (so far). They are 18 months apart and have always been good, good buddies. They are always funny to listen to. Emma just turned 15 and Graham is 13-1/2.

Last night as we were riding there was a slight lull in our lively conversation and so I started to pray outloud. The kids are used to this. I like to spontaneously continue my ongoing conversation outloud to the God who not only died for me but loves me (inspite of myself).

So I started, “Oh by the way Lord, could you please provide such-n-such at Home Depot when I swing in there now? I know it’s not too difficult for you although I know that Home Depot normally doesn’t carry this.” As I paused Emma said, “Yes, Lord, Mom needs something to blog about today.” I turned to Emma who was sitting next to me. She was grinning from ear to ear. She gets a kick out of my blogspot and I guess she thought Him providing this would make a good story.

As the conversation turned to blogging, Graham talked about his own blog. He started it while Dw and Emma were in Africa. She had no idea until last night when Graham mentioned his blog that he had one. He said, “I have a blog ya’ know Emma. But I can’t remember what I called it and I definitely don’t remember my password.” She said, “YOU are writing a blog? Like you mean you really are going to write?” (He is notorious for not liking to write anything, including his home school journal.) So Emma was shocked that Graham would have a blog.

To which Graham replied, “No Emma! I’m not going to write! I just started a blog cause I was bored one night.”

And for the record, Home Depot did not have what I was looking for and yet, I still got a story out of the conversation.