Rubik and His Cube

 My oldest son has had a Rubik's cube for a number of years. Occasionally he'll get it out and play with it. We have a coffee shop friend who will give him some tips and tricks about solving it. However, it's only been recently that he finally figured it out. Now, overnight, he's become a complete whiz at solving them. He even invested his own money and bought a speed cube. Within a week or two he is down to solving it in under two minutes. He challenged my brother recently to a dual and beat him several times. (My brother owns at least six cubes of his own.)

He's continued to hone his time. And today, he began solving them in UNDER A MINUTE! 

Now, as crazy fast as that sounds, he's investigated "speed cubing" and learned that speed cubers need a time under 7 seconds. WHAT?!?! He's also informed me that the current world record is 3.4 seconds. Who knows? We may have a new sport.  ; )

(The pic was lifted from my brother's collection...)

The Weight of the World

 My youngest son seems to be drawn to saving. (That is probably "helped" by having two accountants as parents - one who turned banker earlier this year.) Both boys opened up their first savings accounts (at "Mommy's bank"), though Sterling is the one who keeps feeding me money to deposit. 

Side note: Where does he get all this cash, you ask? I have no idea. For him, it really may grow on trees. In truth, though, he gets the occasional cash from a kindly grandparent at Christmas or birthday. And, dad sometimes pays him for random tasks like doing push-ups.

Anyway, he handed me $5.71 the other day to deposit to his account, and that evening I brought him his deposit receipt. He faithful saves those in his piggy bank so he knows how much he has tucked away in the bank.

Just last night I asked him why he's saving so much. He told me that someday he may have kids, and he wants to be able to feed them. 

Aye! So sweet!... and yet heartbreaking in some way. I love his care and his sense of responsibility. I also wish he could stave off the worries of the world for a while longer and enjoy being a child. 

LORD, help me to teach my children "not to worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow has enough worries of its own." (Help remind me of that, too!)