family fridays

I'm so sad that are family fridays are coming to an end with the start of MDO and Preschool. Today we made "Rich Chocolate Brownies". The girls were quite the mess after eating them since the brownies have icing on them. Since Emma would not be still enough for us to get her wiped down, Jason and I were getting on to her. She looked up at us and said, "Chill out, guys!"

Oh, no she didn't.

It's amazing the attitude that has started ever since she became 3. I feel like on her birthday someone flipped a switch inside her and turned on the "sassy" in her. It's like I'm living with a 3 foot teenager. The really sad part of all this is I so hear myself in her. Payback is fun.

Ever since the sassiness has begun, I have felt so convicted about my words and my motives. I just don't want my words and my tone to rub off on my girls in a negative way. They are a sponge. They soak up everything, whether it be good or bad. On the way back from Memphis I popped in a message in to listen to. It was about Psalm 24. This passage just stood out to me, and I have been praying over this scripture ever since.

3 Who may ascend the mountain of the Lord? Who may stand in His holy place?
4 The one who has clean hands and a pure heart, who has not set his mind on what is false, and who has not sworn deceitfully.
5 He will receive blessing from the Lord, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
6 Such is the generation of those who seek Him, who seek the face of the God of Jacob.