children, Family, Family Fridays, Fathering, parenting

Traveling Mercies

K-J tree table

Thing 1 and Thing 2

The first thing I noticed when we got to my parents’ new home in South Carolina was the smell of the pines. The boys spent time outside there almost every day these last two weeks–the “cold” days there were high 40s, low 50s. It was truly good to celebrate Christmas and New Year’s with beloved and loving family. I thought I’d miss “our” beach, but the woods made a fine substitute.

(Of course, as I watch the sun rise over the water and type back at home, I’m grateful for the living room ocean view.)

One cause for prayer before traveling to see family is traveling logistics. How will the kids do on the plane? In the car on the way to the airport? Will they skip naps due to travel, and will this mean utter mayhem later?

But on the way home yesterday, on the plane, this happened:

K-Js sleeping on plane

Thing 3 sleeps on Thing 2, who sleeps on me

Great logistics, great trip. I’m thankful for my family, and so glad we K-Js got to be with them these last two weeks.

About abramkj

I am the director of worship at a Christian undergraduate school, youth ministry consultant, seminarian, husband and father, and follower of Jesus.

Discussion

2 Responses to “Traveling Mercies”

  1. Post was appropriate – we just arrived in China! Isaac was a champ on the 11.5 hour flight. No screaming, although I was up playing with him from 3:30 to 5 am this morning.

    Miss you guys!

    Posted by David Bradley | January 4, 2013, 9:04 pm

What do you think?

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out / Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out / Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out / Change )

Connecting to %s

Blog Stats

  • 59,048 page views

Book by Abram K-J

Compare Bible Software

Enter email to subscribe

Join 437 other followers

Archives

Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.

Join 437 other followers

%d bloggers like this: