Another Sunday, another church... this one was SUPER FRIENDLY. The scripture was verse by verse out of 1 Thes 4. The message "preached" but was inaccurate. He used the wrong version of the Bible and the word fornication was replaced with immorality. Doesn't sound like a big deal until you really try to study something. There is a difference between fornication and adultery. Both things are immorality but two separate types. This verse wasn't referring to both types of immorality: just fornication. This passage wasn't referring to adultery... oh wells... it still "preached". Next week will be another church. Someday I might find a church home.
     After church we headed out to the park where there was a civil war re-enactment. We had SOOOO much fun. It totally picked our spirits up! They had a sign up booth for children to enlist in the army. Of course our older three children enlisted. The lady overheard me saying that women were not allowed to fight back then and then stepped in with her feminist viewpoint. She assured our girls that "There were women who fought in the civil war. They just had to hide that they were women so they would not be mistreated." Yes, I am sure that happened but this woman made it sound normal, which it was not. Oh wells. Feminists we are not.
     At 1:00 all the children gathered. We were kind of bummed because we though we accidentally signed up for the North. Well, much to our surprise, after they lined all the soldiers up and passed out guns, they asked if anyone wanted to be a Rebel! My children immediately stepped forward. And before you think to badly of us please realize there was MUCH more at stake than slavery. I believe that slavery would of ended eventually anyway. What was at stake was losing freedom to big government.
     Then the children were off to some drills. After drilling the new soldiers they marched off into the woods. There they sat still and silent waiting for those Yankees to show up. Down the road came the other children marching with some blue coats leading them. The battle began. There was lots of shooting, playing dead, running to new positions and our children's side even took some hostages! The whole time cannons were firing. (a tip- if you are ever at a re-enactment, where you are close to the cannons, open your mouth and it will help your ears not to get hurt.)
     Now, we have a family that would love to get into this. Savannah, oldest DD, was not much into this whole being in battle thing, but boy oh boy would she love to sip some tea with ladies while wearing a big dress with a hoop! Dad likes the thought of blacksmithing and Jacob just wants to go back into battle- what a boy!