Monday 29 April 2013

Grandparents and EASTER


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!