oh, the hormonity

I’m telling you, I had no idea.

The boys are outnumbered by the girls in the Sublett manse, 5-2.  We’re playing a bare-bones zone, and we’re barely managing to hold our ground.  I don’t think Levi or I understood what that balance of power would mean in terms of the hormonal output.  Is there an exponential factor that takes place when the numbers reach a certain level?

Fortunately, Levi and I are very understanding men.

It does provide us with a sweeping variety of emotions on almost a daily basis.  Last night Josie was laughing so hard that she, um, well…let’s just say that she had a little “accident!”  We were all laughing hysterically before she announced, and it scaled up when she bolted for the bathroom.

Tonight it was tears.  Annabelle’s been going through a rough patch, and we’re working through some things with her.  She deals with things very differently than our other kids, in her own way.  She internalizes things rather than talking them out.  We think she wants so desperately to be right that she doesn’t ask questions when she doesn’t understand things.  That leads to frustration and tears.

The cool thing was watching Kim deal gently but firmly with our girls tonight.  She took time to talk to each girl, and they prayed together, asking God to work in each situation, in each heart and mind.  We are believing God for breakthroughs all over our house.

You never know what you’ll get when you walk in the door of the Sublett House.  But it’s never boring, and if you don’t like what you find, be patient; things are likely to change in the next 15 minutes!