Precious Gems

Compiled by Lois Breneman - Heart to Heart - 2015

Thanks to all the moms who allow me to include their kids' quotes for all of us to enjoy!

Looked out my window and saw Eva (8) sitting on the top of the grapevines reading a book in the warm afternoon sunshine!! I love that she can't get her nose out of a book! ~ Elizabeth in Virginia

Things your kids say in SAMs: "Mommy can we buy a canoe today?" ~ Sarah in Virginia
 
Conversation while getting ready for bed:
 Me: Jeremiah are you cold?
Jeremiah (2) (shivering): No, I'm Jeremiah!
Me: Well then, we have a little Chuck Norris.
Jeremiah: I'm not Chicken Norris. I'm Jeremiah. Michael. Fields. ~ Heather in Virginia
 
Papa and grandma are here to visit. Erin (6) kept wiping her eyes saying, "I can't stop the water from coming out of my eyes!" Happy tears to be with Papa and Grandma... Such a sweet girl! We are blessed with wonderful grandparents. ~ Aisling in Indiana
 
So we're in Walmart,
Zach (9)... Mom, I need a calendar.
Me... Why do you need one buddy?
Zach.... A man's got to know what he's doing each day. He can't wake up and be puzzled. ~ Jessica in Virginia
 
"Mommy are you 74?" Innocently asked my youngest daughter (6). "No" I replied. "Well are you past 74?" ~ Elizabeth in Virginia
 
Chloe (5): "Mommy!!! What's going to happen to you when Garrett and Caylie and me grow up and get married and get our own dogs? What will happen to you then???" ~ Amy in Virginia
 
My children are playing "dentist."  Eva (8) kept saying, "We have to pull the T-nines out, we have to pull the T-nines out."  Mia (6) looked at her and said, "They are called canines, Eva, not T-nines." ~ Elizabeth in Virginia

So tonight Maddie (6) and I were the last two eating dinner when the boys had gotten up and played basketball. We were eating healthy food, and they were kind of eating junky hamburgers LOL! So it spurred on this little lady's thoughts....."You know mom, we should make a healthy snack and a junky snack and somehow connect electricity to the junky snack so that as soon as Zach (9) grabs the wrong one, boom!! He will get zapped!!!!" And then she looks at me and says, "Now how exactly can we do that?!!" ~ Jessica in Virginia
 
Oh boy! In the last five minutes I have explained why we don't kiss on the lips, been asked why boys smell worse than girls, and what does it mean to commit adultery? ~ Elizabeth in Virginia
 
Ben (5) is trying his hardest to convince me that he needs a new Lego set. I told him that we don't need to use our money to buy that right now. "Well mom, I'm pretty sure one of them is priceless." After further conversation I found out that his definition of "priceless" doesn't match up with mine. ~ Liz in Washington
 
Camden (5): "Mommy I just need a few sips of your coffee because it's going to be a hard day at preschool"~ Bethany in Virginia
 
There are days when parenthood is really, really hard. And then there are days where there are blessings that blow you away.
Last Friday night, I was tucking Samara (5) into bed, and we were having a heart-to-heart talk, just like many other bedtime snuggles and conversations. It started with talking about her Papaw (my Dad).
She was there when Papaw held our hands as he took his last breath here (on earth) and breathed his first in Jesus' presence. Even then, she seemed to understand that God called him home, and that he would be happy and waiting for us there in Heaven.
But she wanted to know more. To be sure. On Friday night, she wanted me to tell her again what we need to do to make sure we would be with Jesus one day, when we die. I tried to keep it simple. You know, she is only 5, after all. I went through the message of the Gospel with her. She surmised that, if Jesus had never died on the cross, there would be no way we could go to heaven because even if all we did our whole life was to lie once, we would not be able to be in Heaven. I agreed.
We talked for quite a while. She wasn't ready to talk to Jesus about that yet though, she said, because she wanted to think.
She told me and Brian (her daddy) that, after I tucked her in and prayed with her that night, she talked with Jesus, and told Him that she was sorry for her sins, and that she believed that He died on the cross to make her sins go away, and that he was living in Heaven. She said that she told Him she wants Him to be her Savior.
Clear, decisive. She made the decision to follow Christ!
My heart is dancing! Thank you, Lord! ~ Diane in Montana