So the other day, Thobe and I went on a rather long drive to take a treat to his Primary teacher for his birthday. The boundaries for our ward at church are very broad. I would say that members from our ward may live up to an hour and half away from each other. We are fortunate in that we only live 12 minutes from our driveway to the church parking lot and are centrally located in our ward boundaries for the most part. Anyway, when I entered the address to Thobe's teacher's house into our GPS, I was surprised to see that the drive was 20 minutes longer than the 25 minutes that I already anticipated. "Oh well," I thought, "Thobe and I will enjoy some mommy Thobe time. So we started out.
Thobe and I had a very pleasant conversation as we drove. He told me a lot about his made up superheros, U.S.A. Face, Al Qida Face, and U.S.A. Face's pet, Baldy (Baldy is a Bald Eagle, Thobe's favorite animal). I heard lots of interesting situations where U.S.A. Face beat Al Qida Face and learned all about U.S.A Faces favorite colors (red, white and blue) and U.S.A. Face's birthday (the fourth of July, ironically the same birthday as our nation and Thobe's Grandpa Monday). As we were driving, Thobe noticed that our GPS's speedometer was turning red (this is our GPS's handy feature to remind me that I'm speeding).
"Mom, you are speeding. You need to slow down," Thobe insisted.
"It's okay, Thobe. I'm just going 59 mph rather than 55; I don't think we'll get a ticket going a little over."
"But Mom, if we speed we could get in a wreck and die. You NEED to stop speeding! We don't want to die!" he demanded.
Feeling frustrating that we would never get there and being the fabulous mother that I am, I told him that we were really going to be fine.
"I'm going to say a prayer. Heavenly Father, We thank Thee for this day. We thank thee for our family. Please protect us. Please bless that we'll stop speeding." And then he ended his prayer.
I didn't speed for the rest of the trip.
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