Monster!
For the past few weeks whenever we are in the backyard, Eden has been making little reassuring comments to herself about monsters. (A shout out to Seth, who acquainted her with that concept in the first place. Thanks, buddy!) "Monster won't get me." "There's no more monsters." "Monster WAY over there, not here." Every time I hear her say that, I assure her that there is no such thing as monsters and that God is the one who keeps us safe anyway. Yesterday out by our stream, she kept saying these things and finally I asked her if she'd ever seen a monster. She pointed across to the opposite creek bank and said, "Over THERE!" I looked too, and then I saw it: The underside of a tree root system, from an upended dead tree. Yes. Well. It does look like a monster, kind of. I tried explaining what it was, but she couldn't understand. So. There's now a "monster" across the stream and I'm debating whether we