Aunt Bethany

Happy Birthday Aunt Bethany!!!!!!!!!! So sorry that I am posting this at the very end of your birthday, but at least it is ON your birthday! Bethany is a great and wonderful aunt to the girls. In honor of her birthday, I am telling a story involving the girls at her house. When we lived in the same town, she would pick them up at a moment's notice, keep them while we ran errands, whatever we need. That is a little more difficult because she lives an hour away, but we are so thankful it is only an hour, and not 500 million hours away! Right before school started, Bethany offered to have ALL FOUR girls spend the night at one time! I don't know what Jarrod was thinking! The girls of course LOVE to spend the night at her house. They love watching as much tv as they want to, fishing with Jarrod, eating homemade ice cream (at 10:00 at night) and whatever else they do while they there! They actually spent 2 nights there, so that was double the fun!
There was a smoke alarm in the room where the girls slept, which totally freaked S out. S is SCARED TO DEATH of fires. I mean, this girl will sometimes just start worrying that our house is burning down, which kind of freaks us out because we think maybe she knows something we don't, but so far it hasn't burnt down. So we go through our fire escape plan often and have fire drills in our house. We have even waited until they just fall asleep then set off the fire alarm and practice getting out. Practicing seems to make S feel better.
Anyway, back to Bethany's house....S sees the alarm and and asks Bethany what that was cause it looks different than ours. Bethany told her it was a fire alarm........oh dear........you did NOT just call that a fire alarm. That of course did not go over well with S....she worried. Bethany prayed with her, tried to comfort her, and so on. Well, at 4:30 in the morning, S was still worried about that fire alarm!
The next night, Bethany changed her terminology and called it a smoke alarm. She went over the fire escape plan and prayed, and bedtime went MUCH smoother. So, lessons learned:
1. it is called a smoke alarm not a fire alarm, to S anyway
2. have a fire escape plan
3. don't worry about it..........they are at Bethany's....she can handle it!

We love you Bethany! Hope your birthday was wonderfully great!