Vander Linden Musings

So Utah Jazz are up in their series 2-0.  AWESOME stuff!  Here is a picture of two of my boys during the game…

I thought they looked cute sitting there watching the game while playing on the computers.

So this past Sunday in church, all of my boys (including my husband)sang “A Child’s Prayer” (written by Janice Kapp Perry)in sacrament meeting.  They did so well.  The boys looked so cute.  BJ’s mom came to play the piano while they sang- and thank goodness.  She was able to slow down and pound out the melody for the boys since it’s a song that has seperate parts- BJ sang a different part than the boys.  Here are the words to that beautiful song:

(Boys part) Heavenly Father, Are you really there?  And do you hear and answer every child’s prayer?  Some say that Heaven is far away, but I feel it close around me as I pray!  Heavenly Father, I remember now, Something that Jesus told disciples long ago, “Suffer the children to come to me.”  Father in prayer I’m coming now to thee.

(BJ’s part) Pray, he is there.  Speak, he is listening.  You are his child.  His love now surrounds you.  He hears your prayers.  He loves the children.  Of such is the kingdom, the kingdom of Heav’n.

Then they sing those two parts together.

Seriously- I wish I had a video- I had to fight back tears.  I guess what kept them at bay was also trying to not laugh that my mother-in-law was having to pound out the melody to keep them going.

I got a rude email today saying I need to post something on this website.  Why haven’t I posted?  Because we lead dull lives!  There’s nothing new- we’re in the same boat we were in last year- baseball season.  Baseball baseball baseball… that’s our lives right now.

All three boys are on different teams.  Josh plays for the Dodgers.  Jake plays for the Cardinals.  Gerritt plays for the White Sox (at least it’s not the Red Sox!!!).

BJ is still working at Helio.  He’s still travelling about once a month.  And he is still going to school for his masters- so I guess that is something new compared to last year this time!

Me?  I take the boys to school- clean at home a little (if I feel like it) and then go get Josh about two minutes later.  He’ll be in first grade in 3 months (they start the school year at the end of July) and then he’ll be gone for the full day!!!  That’s when I have to figure out what to do with me.  I think the first month I will spend sleeping!   After that- I have no idea!  If anyone would like to make some suggestions- I will listen and then most likely turn them down (that’s what I’ve been doing with BJ’s suggestions).

We are going to New York next month.  I’m excited for that.   BJ hasn’t been back there in 4 years- so I’ll probably bore him with visiting my old stomping grounds again.  And this is where I used to go when I was bored, and that is my high school, and right there is where I went to elementary school, and that is where I got my first job… etc.  Poor hubby.

Seriously- I have nothing interesting to say.  Maybe I’ll think of something later!