A very beautiful proposal

One of the beautiful things we got to see on our recent trip to the Northwest was the unexpected occurrence of marriage proposals, the first of which was during our visit to the Seattle Space Tower, and another the next day at the West Point Lighthouse in Seattle's Discovery Park. Both the kids were amazed and excited by seeing such events, and they even prompted our little one to ask us about our own proposal for marriage. The most heartwarming part of it all for me was the spontaneous and earnest suggestion from Jadon that we pray together for the marriage of the people we saw just get engaged. We of course happily obliged.

Different weighs of looking at it

During a road trip we had a lot of time for conversation. JJ was telling us about a friend who encouraged her to apply to Columbia University, in part because he intended to go there. She of course attended Columbia while her friend, JJ recalled, ended up getting waitlisted. 

"Why?" Evangelina asked.  

JJ explained that he was put on a list of people who would be allowed to attend only in case others who had been accepted already decided not to go to Columbia.  

"Ohhh, I thought it was because he was really fat!"

Hard Boiled, Scrambled, or Over Easy?

Conversation on the way north on a road trip:

Mommy: how many kids do you guys want to have in the future?
J: I'm going to have 10 kids, eight biological and two adopted.
Daddy: You're going to have to find a very special woman for that Jadon.
E: yeah, with a lot of eggs.