Tatum accepted Jesus as her Lord and Savior on July 27th, 2018. How did I know this? It was early July of this year, and Tatum asked me when at 5 she accepted Jesus? When did she make that choice? I told her I couldn’t remember exactly the day.
Then, I happened to look it up in the blog, and BOOM. There it was on my first click in 2018. July 27th. It was way too coincidental. So, we decided to celebrate it on that day this year.
Doug bought her the sweetest card and a key from HIS heart. What a beautiful card!
More gifts now….We are so into Nancy Drew as I was when I was a kid. Apparently, Nancy Drew has some more current books (The Clue Crew books where she is only 8 or 9 not 18).
I am more of a classic Drew girl. We are enjoying them.
Oh yes, the card!
And the piece de resistance!
I love you, Tot. May you follow HIM and Love HIM more than you ever love this world. As His disciple, may you learn and grow in His LOVE.
Sandrine lives in Rwanda, and she dreams of being a nurse one day. Tatum wanted to draw her some bears and give her a hug! The bear apparently likes bananas which is a staple food in Rwanda.
Tatum and I decided to write a sequel since we were studying fairy tales this summer.
We worked on our rough draft and ideated for weeks. Man, we couldn’t come up with a theme, but we landed on the challenge of temptation. We had been studying this term in the Bible (and if experienced in our lives!) and had read many verses about staying focused on Christ and having wisdom with decisions/discernment.
Here are our notes and our dialogue. We had to plan out each page. (The parenthesis means we don’t write that but draw it).
Ok, we are ready to create the book. Coming up with a title was the last hurdle, but more on that later.
We wanted Piggie to be tempted by a “villian” since a fairy tale has this feature. He was warned by a “curious bird,” and then was tempted by the villain. The reader has to guess what will happen (and root for Piggie to make the wise choice).
We chose “Bait ‘n’ Surf” for our title as a play on Bait and Switch. Piggie is being baited and then gets to surf.
COVER:
Now the first couple pages:
Ok, now for the curious bird who approaches with a WARNING. All fairy tales have this!
Puppy returns.
And the villian now is introduced. (We love Petey the Cat in the Dogman books, so thanks to Dav Pilkey for this).
Hmmmm…..pink magic? Sounds fishy. The reader is worried. Piggie!! Don’t listen to him!
He is faced with a choice. We all face temptation daily, and how do we choose what is right?
(Well, Tot and I turn to prayer and the Holy Spirit speaks to us, but we kept this part out). The reader now is to wonder, what color is he using as he surfs against gorilla!??
Aaahhhh, good choice, Piggie. (as he holds up his blue ribbon and the bird is giving a thumbs up. Petey is disturbed).
And our tag line of “The End.”
What fun. We had a blast making our book. Now we are ready for our next book. Oh, the work never ends for us authors. HEE!
I love to put fun events on our calendar to anticipate. That is half the fun! Well, I made invitations….
And handed out to each of my Hay clan.
And off we went. Last year, we had so much fun there, so we decided to return. Only one other family was in the whole place, so we didn’t wear our masks.
But I did have my toes on!
Ok, we are ready! First putt:
And stopped along the way to pose with the wildlife.
And various onlookers.
For the last hole, we had to enter the tunnel of “you are almost there so get excited!”
That last hole got me the win as ONE point separated Daddy and me. (52 to 53)
Till next time, Glow Putt! You put a smile on all of our faces.
With the virus “panic”demic, Tot and I had a hard time finding a place that was open for breakfast. I was to surprise her today with a breakfast from Scramble, but they were delivery only, so we tried Wildflower. Closed till 10am. Then, Panera. Success!
I ordered Tot an avocado, egg white bagel sandwich, and she was in heaven.
Where did it go?
She read to me some Superbook Bible characters as we laughed and chatted.
We had so much fun. I love spending time with the TOT.
