It's Friday and I have finally found a moment to blog. I love blogging and sharing my thoughts and daily living. When we prayed during the holidays we really felt like this adoption was so much bigger than us. This blog and our fundraiser has already proven that. I pray that we can be an encouragement to others. We are just normal people called to travel across the world to bring a baby home. If God can use us then he can use anyone.
Before we left for vacation we had a "Steve Irwin" situation. William had finished eating and went outside to frog hunt. We could see him out the window as we were still at the table. He went by our little pool and lifted a plastic bench that we have to hold chemicals. He has learned that frogs hide under there. He quickly put it back down and ran to the door. He busted in saying that there was a snake under the bench.
Joel hopped up and started out the door. He loves critters as much as the kids do. At first Joel thought it was a water moccasin. Well, we were scared to death. I got a plastic tub and Joel worked on getting him into it. Needless to say the snake didn't want to go. I'm sure that you would be in the floor laughing as you watched us trying to wrangle the snake into the container. I'm hopping all around because I am scared of snakes. We finally got him in the box and took him next door. Steve said that he wasn't a copper head or water moccasin. What could he be? Joel then got the computer out and started researching what type of snake it was. Come to find out it was some sort of non poisonous water snake that is endangered. So, Joel insisted that I take him to the ditch while he cut grass. I have no idea why I agreed to do this but I did. I took him to the end of our street and was about to dump him into the ditch. Just as I was about to open the box our next door neighbor's drove up. Mrs. W rolled down her window to speak and when she saw the snake she hollered out "go, go, go". Mr. W took off. That was a little comical to say the least. I let the snake go in the culvert and then went to apologize to Mrs. W. I certainly didn't mean to scare her.
I am just so proud of Will for letting us know about the snake and not attempting to touch it.
2 comments:
Snakes are something I am dealthly afraid of. I too am proud he ran inside to let you know there was a snake and didn't try to play with it or let it sleep under his pillow!
Oh, by the way...my name is not anonymous...that was me, Jima that made that previous comment.
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