Thornton Mom

Michale has become a very picky eater, as most toddlers.  He does not like to eat fruit or veggies.  But ever since he was little he has not liked strawberries.  When we went strawberry picking last year he would not touch them.  This year I hoped it would change but again no cute red face in the strawberry patch. Yesterday things changed.  We were at the pool, he was hungry and there were only grapes and strawberries.  He did not want either one.  But his hunger finally got the best of him and he ploped a grape in his mouth.  Not quite sure what to do I told him to bite on the grape and it would squirt in his mouth.  Oh this was cool.  He put another in and bit and laughted.  I decided that while he was being adventurous I would try a strawberry.  He actually put it in his mouth and bit down and didn't spit it out.  Instead he said, "It spit in my mouth, it's good!!"  He ate a few more strawberries and lots of g...

I love Strawberries.  In North Carolina they grow strawberries.  Oh my goodness are they good.  As I take a bite my mouth is awakened as the juice as it drips down.  It is sweet, juicy, and perfect.  Every year we go picking for strawberries.  They are just right there in front of you.  We pick many, eat some and take the rest home for freezer jam.  We can't ever get enough.  I took Maddie and Michael with me one day to pick.  Maddie picked all the "baby ones."  Michael who has always spit out strawberries before did the same with these.  Took a bite and threw it on the ground.  We still need to work on him.  Ahh Strawberries. The Infinite Atonement (Illustrated Edition) by Tad R. Callistar pg. 241-"Note the measuring rod--not man, not some form of mini-Christ or quasi-God, but rather "the fulness of Christ." The standard of perfection was not other men, nor angles, but Christ himself." We can be...