Confessions of a Three-Year-Old with Jesus and More 20 Below Zero Weather

This week’s Confessions of a Three-Year-Old (Courtesy of Mary at NotBefore7) is all about Jesus and 20 degrees below zero weather.

Jesus is of the upmost importance to Kaydn Rye at this point in his life because He is the healer of the various aches and pains that seem to occur during bedtime, dinnertime, pick up your toys time and of course, bath time.

There’s the “Mommy, I have a tummy ache” when he doesn’t want to eat his chicken pot pie at dinner, and there’s the, “Oh, I have a headache, so I can’t make it up the stairs to get in the tub,” and then there’s “Mom, Mom, Mommmmmm, I have a leg ache,” when he should be asleep in his bed.

During last week’s episode with the leg ache in bed, I told him I’d pray that Jesus would heal his leg ache and take them away forever.

We prayed, he felt better and I laid him back down in his bed. As I went to shut the door Kaydn Rye asked, “Will Jesus still stay with me in my room in case the ache comes back?”

How absolutely priceless is that?

Oh, and lately there's been the “Where is Jesus going to sit at the table?” question that happens just about every night while we’re setting the table.

That all started last year at Passover (Oh yeah, by the way, did I mention that we celebrate the biblical feasts?). During the Passover seder we save a place for Elijah at the table in case he comes back for the seder. You’d think that waiting for some dead guy to resurrect would seriously freak the kid out, but he’ s really into it. And now, not only do we save a spot for Elijah, but we’ve got a spot for Jesus too. The one day as we prayed “Come Lord Jesus be our guest,” I guess he thought, “Well, if Jesus is our guest, then where’s he going to sit? Again, apparently the resurrection of a dead man doesn’t completely bring up images of Night of the Living Dead for the kid.

Now it would nice if Jesus would save us from the sub-freezing temperatures in my office. Yesterday it was 20 degrees below zero outside. And that wasn’t even with the wind chill. Seriously, it was like you couldn’t even breathe outside yesterday. But today’s a heat wave, it’s like 10 below and everybody’s walking around downtown with their jackets wide open.

We have the fireplace going and the heat turned up so it’s nice and cozy inside, but my office is a definite exception to the coziness. When we moved in I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to put my office in the sunroom addition. It’s a huge addition right off the kitchen and the dining room so it was just begging to be transformed into my official office space. And Kaydn Rye has serious issues with being alone, so we needed a room that was big enough for the both of us. He’s got his famed Nintendo in there, his puzzles, his toys, his big horse, and of course, all of my office stuff.

The one thing that isn’t in the sunroom is a heating duct, so we heat it with our two space heaters. But you won’t even guess what the temperature was in there yesterday.

It was 32 degrees in there when I got up yesterday. What in the world? I finally got it up to 50 degrees for like an hour in the afternoon, and then it went right back down to 32 degrees. I ended up trying to get some work done on the computer in my coat and gloves but I finally just finished up some interviews I had to do on the phone in the kitchen with the folding table and my 85 year-old laptop with the missing space bar key.

Oh, and not only does Kaydn Rye know all about Jesus, but he apparently knows the days of the week too. Last Sunday he got in some serious trouble and hubby grounded him from Super Mario Bros for a week. I guess hubby assumed that after the week was up maybe he’d just forget about Luigi and Mario and move on with his life. Instead, on Sunday, exactly one week after the original grounding sentence, he says, “Hey, I’m not grounded from Nintendo anymore am I?”

Hubby and I both just looked at each other and started laughing. Then of course Kaydn Rye thought he was the funniest comedian on the planet and proceeded into the 32 degree sunroom. So he spent his Sunday night in his coat, hat and boots in the sunroom playing Nintendo.

And he came back for more misery yesterday so he could play computer games. Here’s him in the sunroom with his coat and hat on.



I’m seriously going to throw myself in the lake if this weather doesn’t become more reasonable. I swear, why in the world do people actually live in North Dakota? Are they absolutely insane?





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