Teeth

Tooth #8 has made its presence known. Now on to meat and potatoes. My boy has his first dentist appt. 11/21. They say you're supposed to have them see the dentist before 18 months, so we're trying to obey. We'll see how that goes. I'm a little nervous.

This has nothing to do with my child but I thought I'd share it anyway. This is my blog, after all. I was watching Oprah yesterday (yeah, I do that sometimes) and it was actually pretty good. She had Ricky Martin on (that's not why it was good, btw) and was following up his tsunami relief efforts in SE Asia. One of the women whose house got rebuilt said this: "I've learned that humans can survive on nothing." That just hit me as being so true. I know our family is guilty of thinking we "need" this or that to survive. A bigger house (me). A bigger truck (Jesus). We have no idea what it is like to live having had everything we own wiped out. Mind you, both of us grew up pretty poor. But we have gotten so comfortable in our current state. We need so very little to get by. I think God made it that way on purpose. If we needed so much to survive, we would probably get complacent and think we don't really need Him. I remember when I was in Haiti feeling the same way. When they pray "give us this day our daily bread," they mean it literally. They depend on God for the food they're going to eat that day, that meal. It's easy here to take that as a figure of speech, and to a certain extent it is. But if we had to pray that every day literally for our daily bread, we'd probably be a lot closer to the Lord than we are. Just a thought.