Taking Hebron

Back in the day, when someone went to a shoe store, the clerk would measure your feet, find you shoes, and put them on you. Now days we go into the department store, search the displays for a shoe that looks nice, find our size, put the shoes on and never see a worker in the entire department even if we want help. But having never known anything else we like things this way. We like self check out, no hassle, no fuss. Well there's a shoe store here called Brown's Shoes. It's a little store that's loaded with shoes and helpful employees that have been trained in 1950's shoe service. I've been in there enough times to know it's hard to just casually "browse" and if you take a shoe out don't even think of putting it back! (That one proves quite challenging for me because I was raised to pick up after myself.) I remedy this problem by waiting until no ones looking and I secretly stick the boxes away! Well today I was at the Bible store, which ...

Do you ever wish you could be a fly on the wall somewhere? Well today was my chance. I was out in the garage with my dad and the little kids. I was cleaning engine parts (my dad and I started rebuilding my engine!) Anyway, I was scraping old black gunk off of things while my dad cleaned play-dough out of the kids' shoes. Apparently he was teasing "tricking" them a little by lifting their feet up extra high when he checked for play-dough. When he finished he went inside and the kids played while I continued to scrap gunk. Suddenly, Lindsey and Josephbegan to giggle. I glanced over as Lindsey said, "Let's play a trick on him [Dad]" Both giggled along as Joseph said, "Remember, do unto other as you want them to do to you!" (-: (If Dad tricks you it's only Biblical to trick him back!) So they loaded up his lawn chair with something (I couldn't see from where I was sitting) and they covered it with paper, then Lindsey and Joseph hid in the ...