Shane: "I'm putting together a shoe rack for the back room. Do you want to help?"
Caleb: "Yup! You put shoes on it?"
Shane: "Yes, we are going to put our shoes on it instead of the big tub that we use."
Caleb: "Oh...Well maybe we need to put Joshua's shoes on it."
Shane: "Why's that?"
Caleb: "In case he ever needs them. If he ever comes back home, he may need them."
Shane: "Well, he won't need them because he won't come back from Heaven. Once you go to Heaven, you don't come back. Remember?"
Caleb: "I know. But we could still put his shoes on there right?"
Shane: "Yes we can do that but I don't think we even have shoes for Joshua. He was just a baby and didn't need shoes."
Caleb: "Oh."
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We were at a restaurant for lunch.
Caleb was waving his hand around, pointing to the sky, and counting.
Shane: "What are you doing buddy? What are you counting?"
Caleb: "I'm counting people."
Me: "There are people in the sky?"
Caleb: "No. There is one person in Heaven and four sitting here at our table in the planet. We have 5 people in our family. I was counting our family."
Shane- trying not to cry: "Yup, you're right buddy. We have 5 people in our family. There are 4 here on Earth and 1 in Heaven. You are such a smart boy."
Hannah: "Baby Joshua is in Heaven. I miss my bwudder."
Me: "I know baby. We all miss him. "
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"Blessed are those who mourn for they will be comforted." Matthew 5:4
10 comments:
Caleb is so wise.
I can't believe Shane managed not to cry...it's not my family and I wasn't there, but it made me cry.
You are so blessed to have Caleb in your life.
You have THREE amazing kids. I miss them all.
He's really smart! he knows baby Joshua watchin
over you guys..
Love you all!
My goodness. If I could hug your kid, I would. He is so stinkin cute!
(I don't see us as a family of two, we're a family of four. We're just split down the middle.)
Personally, I like the idea of everyone's shoes on the rack. Perhaps you could put a pair of shoes belonging to each of you on the rack (even if all you had was booties for Joshua, I count them as shoes) and take a picture of it. Have it printed and framed or even made into a canvas print and hang it in your home.
Actually, I think I'll do that here at home with our shoes! :D (I amaze myself at times.)
What a beautiful son you have. Our little guys are so amazing.
like!!!
What an amazing little guy you have.
This brought tears to my eyes. Hugs to you all!
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