butterflies

We witnessed one of God's most awesome miracles last week! The boys were over at my aunt and uncle's with Dan a little while ago and they found many caterpillars on some milk weeds....so, my aunt gave the boys this 'house' for caterpillars, frogs or the like and brought home a 'pet' and 4 big milk weed leaves. It managed to escape once but left us a trail of 'poo' to find it....it ate all 4 leaves in less than 24 hours...so, Dan traveled back to the milk weed plants and got more food for it....but by the evening, it was hanging upside down, getting ready for it's next stage...the chrysalis...by morning, it had totally covered itself with the chrysalis and it had these gold jewels on it too! It was truly amazing!! I didn't get any pictures of it during this stage b/c of the 'home' it was in, I wasn't able to get any good ones.....so then we waited.....11 days.....and last Sunday, the chrysalis was turning blue then clear and you could see the monarch's wings.....Have I mentioned how awesome this experience was for ME as well as the kids?! I mean, we all know caterpillars turn into butterflies and yeah, yeah, it's a miracle...blah blah...right? WRONG! Seriously, think about this....how amazing it is for a simple little caterpillar (though, this caterpillar was quite BIG), knows when the time is right and cocoons itself...how does that happen?? MIRACLES! Everyday around us! So, If I can figure out how to post some pictures, I'll post them of a brand new beautiful butterfly...we had so much fun watching it flutter it's wings for the first time!! It hung out with us for quite some time and some neighbors came over and watched in amazement with us! Milo was totally in awe as was Egan....Milo wanted to keep it! and was very disappointed when we came home later in the day and it was gone! This has reminded me of all of God's wonders and has made me stop to notice them! We all need to step back sometimes and 'smell the flowers'. Something that my kid's are really good at and drives me nuts at times...especially when we are running late!

The other most awesome thing that happened while the butterfly was 'sleeping'....I FOUND MY WEDDING RING!!!!! YAHOOO!!!! It had been missing since before Christmas...I have looked HIGH AND LOW for this thing!! And sure enough, I looked in this little Willow Tree box that has some little things of the girls in there...bracelet, lip gloss of laney's etc...and then I saw it....something gold that caught my eye....I'll be dog goned!!!!!! It was pretty tarnished....but MY ring!! Dan was VERY excited....he was really bummed when I lost it. and part of my guilt for losing it was seeing how bummed he was about it. It made me sick to think that it might really be gone! But, it's not!! Yahoo! So, we went to the mall and got it cleaned and now it's like I have a brand new ring!!

Well that is all for now....can you believe it? It's not the novel it usually is....hehehe.
I'm off work today and the older boys just got back from our church....VBS this week!