Nykile's Prayer

Tonight over dinner Nykile & I were talking about what he did in church today. He informed me that he got the quiet seat prize and that means that he got to go on stage and lead the prayer. I told him how great that was & asked him what he prayed about. He told me that, "Dear God, please give all those boys and girls that are like me a dog. God we really want a dog." Not sure that was exactly what the leaders were looking for but I suppose they didn't specify what he had to pray about. :)

His prayer should have been for forgiveness for stealing from his teacher. Yes, that's right my 5 year old "stole" from the teachers desk. The routine check of his backpack this weekend reveled an ink pad, Curious George stamp, and a stuffed elephant. Odd things to come home from school with. So the questioning begins. The unedited version is that the ink pad and stamp were "treasure box" items and the elephant was a gift from a classmate who's name has slipped his mind. After that story didn't fly the final version (after several revisions I might add) is that X (name omitted to protect the innocent) gave him the ink pad and told him to take it home. Nykile does just that even though he knew that X had taken it from the teacher's desk. So technically he was being a follower and not a leader but that's just a technicality, which was completely over looked by his mother & the child still got in severe trouble. He is being sent to school with instructions to return all items to the appropriate owner's. Ownership of the elephant is still a mystery that I'm leaving up to the teacher to solve.

My prayer is that God gives me the widsom and sanity to survive this child! I'm beginning to think that I'm losing both.