January 14, 2007
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Still mouseless just didn't feel like fighting icey roads for a "luxury".
I just was asked to teach SS this morning. The teacher is sick. I haven't done that in a long time. But I was quite delighted that he asked me. I've felt a bit...helpless at this church. I just haven't been needed to do anything. So it feels good to have a job even if its for only one Sunday, and without ANY prep time. LOL
We had a bit of excitement last night. We were burning all day. It wasn't a particularly wild fire, so we left the kids to play beside it as we could see them from the house. We checked them frequently from the windows, and they seemed fine. Samuel was a major helper and continued to load the fire all day. With all the downed branches of the big trees we are going to be burning a lot. Samuel has been so good with fire for so long we just relaxed. It probably was stupid.
He and Zeria decided to build baby fires alongside the big fire. They do this sometimes. Its so wet here there's no danger involved. But usually they do it with our supervision. We were busy doing other stuff, and missed it. Zeria built hers and then put it back out. Even if she hadn't put it out it wouldn't have been a big deal as there's snow on the ground for crying out loud.
Samuel however has a nack. HE built his in the bottom of the HUGE stump that is home to two massive nursery trees. It was nice and dry under there. You know a secret cave. It never became a raging fire. But it definitely liked that big dry rotten stump. *sigh* So Rob and I spend from 6-9:30 last night checking on it, and hosing the stump down. The tree still stands today. The emergency is avoided. And I'm not nearly as mad at Samuel as I should be. It was our fault. You do NOT leave 8 and 9 year olds around fire without closer supervision. Its just stupid. We won't be repeating it. And we're greatful the tree is fine. There was NEVEr true danger. We just hated to loose the beautiful tree. And we haven't.
We had a long discussion with Samuel about fire. He was appropriately sheepish. But quite frankly I feel like I'm the one who should be disciplined for trusting him so much. *sigh*
Comments (3)
The way I see it, you learned a valuable lesson...no need to beat yourself up for it. Thank God that it wasn't worse, and thank him for the lesson. Glad the tree survived too!
I totally agree with the first comment.. We are only human and make mistakes.. God is still working on us. I am glad everything was ok. The Lord was definately watching over your family.
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