Snack Drawer Prayer

I bought this old beat up looking kinda funky Chinese piece of furniture. I like different things, don’t think I would do well waking up every day to a matching house….but anyways, it has kinda turned into a vending machine. The bottom four drawers are the kids snack drawers. They each know which drawer is theirs and they are pretty good at not stealing snacks from each other. Trading and bartering go on, but not much stealing, unless Dad opens one up in his sleep walking state……..I usually put their snacks in there to last the week. It is their choice if they want to eat them all in one day or make it last for the week. Ryan often eats his all at once. I came into the dining room one day and there was Ryan, on his knees, in front of his snack drawer. He was praying that snacks would appear in his empty drawer. I knew it was going to be empty when he opened it and kinda worried for a split second if his faith in God would be altered by an empty drawer…………he opened the drawer, found it empty and said, “maybe next time, okay?” I slipped back around the corner before he got up so he wouldn’t see me. So, yes, I try really hard to keep atleast one thing in Ryan’s snack drawer at all times!

Good Bye to The Kitchen Drawer?

The kids keep asking all kinds of questions about our new house. Kinda hard to answer a lot of them being that we don’t even know what town we are going to live in next. Ryan asked if we would still have the neighborhood snack drawer at our next house. I’ll have to think about that one, I hadn’t even really considered it…….I have a bottom drawer in the kitchen that all the neighborhood kids know about. I throw in granola bars, cheese/peanut butter crackers, gum, all that kind of stuff. Kids know they can always come and grab something out of that drawer. I started it back when Ed was in Iraq. It seemed like someone was always asking for something to eat and I was just tired of making endless PB&J sandwiches and stuff, so I started the neighborhood snack drawer. I’m thinking that maybe we will say good bye to that one at our new house. I think I just might be a meanie and send kids home when they are hungry or they can just make their own food but have to clean up the mess…………