Part 168 Brookie


It’s a Friday after work, just before the Thanksgiving holiday break. Becah is at a happy hour with friends, Bree has gone to a sleepover. Brooke and I go shopping at Target for gifts for disadvantaged students enrolled in an alternative school in our district. We grab Mexican food for dinner and bring it home to enjoy it while watching a movie. I’m hoping to pick the show, but I go along with Brooke’s decision of “Barbie Rapunzel” (sometimes you just have to bite the bullet). After the movie, we watch a few episodes of “Big Time Rush” (no complaint from me there).

The next day is Brooke’s birthday party celebration, at a gymnasium. Rolling and tumbling everywhere and somehow no one gets hurt. At night Brookie prays again for granddaddy having a fun time in heaven, but this time adds “and for daddy being out of the hospital and for daddy getting his tube out”. These prayers will be offered from her again and again in almost every evening prayer.