The Good, the Bad & the Ugly...

We took a fun trip down to San Diego with our dear friends, the Lo family. This was last weekend not the one that just passed us. The weather was gorgeous for a day by the shore....shopping, picking strawberries, kite flying and eating.... But like with all things that are good, life has interesting ways of throwing some lessons in there....or should I say, the Lord has unique ways of throwing some life lessons in there....

Seaport Village

Taking a break....& waiting for our table

Buddies...

The GOOD: 

*strawberry picking in Carlsbad

*tasting the strawberries while picking them

*walking around Seaport Village

*kite shopping

*flying the kite in the sea breeze

*getting henna tattoos!

*finding some TOMS shoes for Nate

*walking around old towne

*dinner at Casa de Reyes

The BAD & the UGLY:

*accidentally leaving the newly bought kite behind & losing it

*walking back to the car trying to console an 8 year old that is quietly sobbing from the loss of the kite

Ok, so the GOOD definitely outweighed the BAD & the UGLY. But that's why I decided to blog this memorable day. I wanted to show my Nathan another way of how we should not focus on the "bad parts" of our day....or even in life. Upon realizing that his kite was gone for good, he wrapped his arms around me and buried his face into my waist to hide his tears from our friends. (Apparently crying in public is not an acceptable thing for 8 years olds.) Good thing we parked quite a ways from Seaport Village. It gave me some time to chat with him on how it's okay to feel disappointed and heart broken when we lose things, especially things that are newly bought. Then I thought it was a good time to bring up the value of earthly things vs. eternal things. We talked about the temporality of worldly possessions. I'm not sure if he was open to accepting that eternal things like our faith in God, our salvation in Him was more important ...especially during such a difficult moment in his 8 year old eyes. So in reality, some comfort was given when daddy said they would look for another kite some other day. So the lesson was a tough one...but a necessary one I think. We learned not to hold onto earthly things too tightly and to not let bad things ruin our entire day. After driving off, we ended up at Old Towne for some grub at the old Casa de Reyes. Good food, fun music, shopping and great company was very healing. We drove home with our bellies full of chips and salsa, our trunk holding a bucket of strawberries, and our hearts content. 

"In all your ways, acknowledge Him and He will make your paths straight."

-- Prov. 3:6