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Jacob’s Future Wife

Last night Amy and I were cuddling on the couch when our four-year-old, Jacob, wormed his way in between us. We have a fun game we like to play were Jake tries to steal my wife and I rough him up a little and tell him to go find his own wife.

So then we got to talking about wedding rings and what that meant. Jacob tried on my wedding ring and was thrilled to be married to Amy for a few minutes, before my finger started feeling strangely uncomfortable without the familiar feeling of my wedding band. So I roughed him up again to gain my ring back.

We then asked Jacob if he would get married someday, to which he simply stated, “Yup”. What a great teaching moment I thought. So I started asking Jake some leading questions as to the type of woman he should marry. You certainly can’t start too early planting these important seeds. After asking what his future wife will look like, or what she’ll do and finding she strangely resembled Catwoman from his description I thought I better help him out a little more.

So I told Jake that the two things he needs to remember is to marry someone who is very pretty and someone who loves God. Jakes answer was priceless…

“Mommy!!!!!!!!!!!”

Well said Jacob. Well said.

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