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Jude came to me tonight saying that he has written a “God song.”  It goes like this: “In a period of ti..i..i..me…God will pick us up.”  Repeat 4 times. Jude told me that the song means that if you repent of your sins and love God, someday you will die and God will take you …

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Jude got his gold striped belt about a week ago at karate. He was really thrilled.

Andy set Jude up with an email account that Jude very occasionally uses to send me emails at work.  It is always a highlight of my day, knowing that Jude pecked out a special message to me.  Today he wrote: “Hi Mom, I am good. Are you good? I love you. i know you are …

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Levi turned 3 today, but, I’ve asked that that be kept a secret.  Jude makes me feel so guilty about having to work everyday and never getting any time off (as is standard for attorneys at a law firm) that I certainly would be made to feel so guilty about working on Levi’s birthday.  Instead, we’ll tell Levi that …

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Yesterday Jude was complaining about something that just goes along with living in a fallen world. I explained to him that the world is the way it is because Adam and Eve sinned and ate the fruit. Jude said it wasn’t fair that he has to suffer the consequences of Adam and Eve’s sin. I …

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Jude got a package in the mail from his online government school teacher who is very nice, but very behind the scenes.  It contained a certficate for the “A” Honor Roll for the first semester.  He was pretty excited when I explained what it was. Today we took our star student and his brothers to …

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Jude: “I don’t think we should we that cavity protection toothpaste anymore.” Me: “Why?” Jude: “Because I already used it and I got cavities.” (Or he needs to use more of it! The dentist said that although Jude has 2 cavities, he didn’t recommend we do anything about them since Jude isn’t too far off …

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“Why could you just walk to South America and I’ve never been there?”

“Me so happy.”   

Last night Jude disappeared for a while and then reappeared and asked me to come look at his new fort in his bedroom.  It was pretty cool.  Jude then said to me, “You know how Levi helped me?  He helped me by not helping.”