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he repents?

saturday night was quite moving here at our house. after a pretty non-adventurous day we were doing bedtime. i was tucking in mapboy when all of a sudden he starts repenting for his sassy talk, bad behavior, bad attitude and tells me he understands i'm just doing my job and that his is to obey. he tells me i'm the best mom around and how thankful he is for me! wow!!!! did he really just say all of that??? i give him a big hug and kiss and head to princess...

princess sings her songs and starts to pray. as she prays, and can i just say this girl covers everything in her prayers, she ends with asking Jesus to come live in her heart!! now, being a mom, i'm a little overwhelmed here. we hadn't talked about this at all with her. i mean she has heard it i'm sure and we talk about Jesus all the time. so when she says amen i ask her all sorts of questions and sure enough - she totally knows what she did and why she wanted to do it!!

i come down stairs all weepy. first mapboy repents and then princess prays! princess was all grins in the morning as she shared with daddy and her teacher at church. she told grandparents with a big grin....but mapboy...well let's just say he must not have gotten the true meaning of repent. it looks like we still have some work to do there:)

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