I LOVE THE OLYMPICS!!!!
Really, I do. I love the sport of it. Swimming, diving, gymnastics, track and field, gosh I could go on and on. I love the story pieces that the networks show about the athletes. I love a good story, you gotta know them to love them.
Our church is doing a Olympic theme for the sermons, and each SS class is praying for individual athletes. A funny side note on that...I was not in SS when they came around and explained what they wanted each class to do, because I was filling in for the teacher who was making the announcement. So that meant that I had to get the low down from my boys. So this was the conversation on the way home from church on Sunday.
Me: How was class today guys?
Boys: Fine
Jake: Ms Linda came around and wants our class to sponsor a christian athlete during the Olympics.
Me: really Jake, that is so cool
Jake: Yeah, I picked....(at this point he reaches into his pocket and pulls out a tiny slip of paper)...I picked Bryan Clay
Jared: Hey, I didn't get to pick someone. How come I didn't get to have one?
Me: I have no idea Jared?
Jake: I was the one sitting at the end of the table so I pulled the name out of the basket. But he is mine, cause I picked him.
Me: What does he compete in?
Jake: track and Field
Me: What do they want you to do while he is competing?
Jake: I don't know, they just want us to SPONSOR him Mom, we don't have to do anything.
Me: Well, maybe you could pray for him, and follow him online?
Jake: Whatever, I am just going to sponsor him. This is my guy.
Then later that day, he was cleaning his room and he came and asked for some tape. I questioned him because we had just painted his room I REALLY did not want tape on the walls. He assured me he wouldn't put it on the walls and away he went.
That night, he came to me and showed me his chap stick(he is an addict, really he is, he has it with him AT ALL TIMES, he even sleeps with it in his waistband of his pj bottoms)
He held it up proudly to show me. It was now covered with not only an obscene amount of DUCK TAPE but also the little slip of paper that had Bryan Clays name on it. You can read about him here. (He is in the Got Milk ad on the right with the track shoes around his neck.)
That was so Jake, not even really sure what "sponsor" means but knowing it meant something important. Important enough for the beloved chap stick, it might as well have been duck taped to his heart.
Really, I do. I love the sport of it. Swimming, diving, gymnastics, track and field, gosh I could go on and on. I love the story pieces that the networks show about the athletes. I love a good story, you gotta know them to love them.
Our church is doing a Olympic theme for the sermons, and each SS class is praying for individual athletes. A funny side note on that...I was not in SS when they came around and explained what they wanted each class to do, because I was filling in for the teacher who was making the announcement. So that meant that I had to get the low down from my boys. So this was the conversation on the way home from church on Sunday.
Me: How was class today guys?
Boys: Fine
Jake: Ms Linda came around and wants our class to sponsor a christian athlete during the Olympics.
Me: really Jake, that is so cool
Jake: Yeah, I picked....(at this point he reaches into his pocket and pulls out a tiny slip of paper)...I picked Bryan Clay
Jared: Hey, I didn't get to pick someone. How come I didn't get to have one?
Me: I have no idea Jared?
Jake: I was the one sitting at the end of the table so I pulled the name out of the basket. But he is mine, cause I picked him.
Me: What does he compete in?
Jake: track and Field
Me: What do they want you to do while he is competing?
Jake: I don't know, they just want us to SPONSOR him Mom, we don't have to do anything.
Me: Well, maybe you could pray for him, and follow him online?
Jake: Whatever, I am just going to sponsor him. This is my guy.
Then later that day, he was cleaning his room and he came and asked for some tape. I questioned him because we had just painted his room I REALLY did not want tape on the walls. He assured me he wouldn't put it on the walls and away he went.
That night, he came to me and showed me his chap stick(he is an addict, really he is, he has it with him AT ALL TIMES, he even sleeps with it in his waistband of his pj bottoms)
He held it up proudly to show me. It was now covered with not only an obscene amount of DUCK TAPE but also the little slip of paper that had Bryan Clays name on it. You can read about him here. (He is in the Got Milk ad on the right with the track shoes around his neck.)
That was so Jake, not even really sure what "sponsor" means but knowing it meant something important. Important enough for the beloved chap stick, it might as well have been duck taped to his heart.
2 comments:
That is so cool! Too bad they are on in the middle of the night.=(
Bridget
So I am a complete goofball. I thought I had seen on tv an advertisement for some of the olympics and I thought they said it would be on at 2:30am. I then assumed all the olympics would be on live in the middle of the night because of the whole other side of the world thing. Anyway, I am quite mistaken.
And... I LOVE the new header! Brilliant!
When are you guys starting school? We're starting the 18th. I'm doing it year round this year. Eight weeks on two weeks off. I'm excited!
Bridget
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