OK, It's official! We now have a teenager in our home, and we are so BLESSED!
We spent all weekend celebrating his 13th birthday. We really wanted it to be special.
On friday evening we had a small family party. We had his favorite meal of Lasagna, french bread and Granny's fruit salad
Next we opened a few gifts. He really, really, wanted an NXT robot for his birthday. We had so much fun with this present as he was so anxious for days before as to whether we had gotten this for him. We kept saying, I don't know, that is such an expensive gift! He wanted it so bad that he even offered to use his own money to buy half of it, if we would pay for the other half for his birthday. He was very surpised. Let us just say that there were tears of joy!
Earlier in the year, he had also requested a 'special' ring, do dh and I decided to do a True Love Waits ceremony, just with our family. It really turned out to be more of a devotional but he now has his ring as a constant visual reminder of his committment to God in so many ways. Our little ceremony included the following five elements:
Your Committment to God
Matthew 22:37
"Jesus replied, Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind"
Your Commitment to Yourself
Matthew 22:39
"And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself "
Your Committment to your family
Phillippians 4:5
"Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near"
Your Committment to your friends
John 15:13
"Greater Love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends"
Your Committment to your future mate and children
II Timothy 2:22
"Flee the evil desire of youth, and pursue righteousness, faith , love and peace, along with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart"
It was beautiful. I cried. I remeber so fondly bringing him home from the hospital, he was less than 6 pounds and now he towers over me saying "I love you, mom" in the manliest, deep voice you ever heard. It brings me so much joy to know that he will grow up to make a difference in the kingdom of God.
On Sunday afternoon, he had a friend birthday party at the bowling alley.
The birthday cake was a surprise and he really liked it, of course what techie kid wouldn't!
Overall, we had a wonderful birthday weekend, full of many, many blessings.
Suzie
2 comments:
we will have a teenager in August.
it looks like he really really enjoyed this b-day cause he was always smiling. my kids never always smile
Well this was a great day, but you're way behind girl!! LOL
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