This picture cracks me up...he took it himself. He always makes this face when he takes a picture of himself. Unfortunately we had a death in the family this past weekend. My uncle Bill passed away after a brief illness. We went to the visitation on Tuesday night and I was stressed about what to tell Ethan. As soon as he saw me take a shower he knew we were going somewhere (isn't that sad?). I told him that Uncle Bill went to heaven and we were going to see our family and that they might be sad because they missed him. I was ready to be bombarded with questions and the only one I got was "What is heaven?" I said, "You know, heaven, where God and Jesus live?" He looked completely confused and said, "Heaven? What?" And that was that. I couldn't believe this child didn't know what heaven was. Doesn't he know that I drag myself to church with him every Sunday, completely exhaused from working 12 hours the night before and that I send him to a Christian school so that he can know who God is and what heaven is?! I was floored...have I taught him nothing?!? At least there was a little humor to add in a sad situation. Check out the "Sonja's blog" link to the side to see Uncle Bill. He will be missed.....
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The funeral home gave us a "library" box. We will be going through it over the next few days and will forward on anything that I think you might like. Also, I've been told that Maria Shriver wrote a nice book about heaven for kids. I plan on checking that out soon.
- Sonja
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