Well, we were able to get away last week for a quick working vacation. Jeremy had a Sportsman’s Expo in Orlando, which also happens to be one of our favorite travel destinations, so we all went. While he did his thing at the convention center, the kids and I did our thing out by the pool.
I’m pretty sure we got the better end of that deal!
Thankfully, our kids are at the age where they don’t need constant supervision in the water. I am so glad the days of being a motherly Hovercraft are over! I found a pool with a deep end of no more than 3’6″, WITH A WATERSLIDE, and they disappeared for about 5 hours!
(I should probably put a disclaimer here about the fact that they didn’t actually disappear. They were in the water, where I could see them from my lounge chair that was sitting right next to the pool. Even though I am confident in their swimming abilities, I’m less assured of their ability to refrain from pushing each other down the waterslide if an offense has taken place!)
So with that being said, I was able to relax a bit and read a book I’ve been meaning to get to for a couple of years. It’s called Your Girl, by Vicki Courtney. It’s all about raising a Godly daughter in an ungodly world.
The book was encouraging, shocking, scary, hopeful, and informative all at the same time. She had statistics that left me squinting to read that “one more time”, because certainly, that CAN’T be right! She reminds her readers of the high call of mothering and the hard work it takes to do it right. There is a whole culture out there ready to contradict everything we are trying to teach our girls. What’s a mom to do???
She covers topics such as finding their true self worth, the dangers of conformity, staying pure, and whether or not prince charming really exists. After exposing the harsh realities of the world our daughters are facing today, she gives her readers tools and reassures us we can do the task as long as we rely on God’s help.
Courtney finishes the book by reminding us that we are a part of something much greater. Our heritage. What kind of legacy do you want to leave? I want to teach both of my kids that the most important thing in life is doing what is right in the eyes of the Lord (2 Kings 22:2). Eventually, I want them to make the right choices, not because of the consequences they will receive when their parents find out, but because they desire to do what God wants them to do.
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You guys were in Orlando!!! You know that’s only 3 hours north of us!! We’ve seriously gotta stop being this short a distance from one another and our families not meeting :(
Anyway, I LOVE Vicki Courtney! You know she has the book Your Boy as well as 5 Conversations You Must Have With Your Daughter and 5 Conversations You Must Have With Your Son. She is really good!
Glad you guys enjoyed your little time away!
Sounds like a great book.
Desiring to do God’s will = Godly fear, the fearing of disappointing our heavenly Father.