Easter was a another huge hit – we planned a sleepover at Gogo and Pappas
house and the boys could hardly wait.
The boys have 3 doting grandparents, Gogo and Pappa (Roger’s Folks) and
Ouma (my Mom). Not a single day goes by without them mentioning all three at
least once and every night Tom prays that they all sleep well – it is so
precious to see!
Ouma lives with us in our Granny Flat and Max regularly screams
from downstairs to demand that Ouma comes down. He even tries to call her when he is getting in trouble and
regularly calls her name out in the early hours of the morning. He insists on showing her his fancy
clothes when we go out and every time we drive away from home he says “bye Ouma”
even when she is not at the window. Tom often prays for his Ouma to have a good
day at the shop that’s she runs for us.
Gogo and Pappa live on a farm and have a beautiful big garden for
the boys to run around in. Gogo and Pappa are very Gagga grandparents and love
their boys to bits. In return the boys just adore them. Goggo spoils them
rotten and they get away with a fair amount of murder when they are at the
farm! Pappa has made them their very own chilli sauce and we all have to ask
them when we want some. Gogo has everything they could ever need and runs
circles around them. I almost
always get a very loud “Aaaaaaaaaaah” when I mention hometime and I have to
remind them that they will see them again very soon during the week to pacify
them. I love to see the boys being
loved - and so it is an answer to prayer that they are surrounded with so much
love!
So back to Easter. We
woke up early in the morning thanks to the Easter bunny who had set the outside
alarm off. The boys got their gumboots on fast as anything and we went hunting! They were delighted with every find and
bragged about their basket of treasures for the rest of the day. Max looked
like he had had his face painted after eating his white egg and we literally
had to hose them down afterwards.
We downloaded an excellent short children’s movie on Easter which
Tom loved watching and we had a real opportunity to talk about what Jesus has
done for us. Thank you Lord for
loving us enough to give us these special boys!