Emilyweek - Icing on the Cake!
We had a great visit, but sadly now it is finished. Emily and kids actually left Friday, and I’m just getting around to writing my last post about out great adventure of diapers, sippy cups, silly songs, and macs (yes, there were three of us on our macbooks one night in the living room, but we were too busy I guess to take a funny picture).
Emily is much better about taking pictures than I am. She has a gift for capturing the moment with babies and kids, too. That is probably why most of my pictures from last week have me in them and not her!
One thing that is nice about being with an old friend again is the appreciation kindled for all the little things you love. You can’t experience these things even half as much with phone and email. For instance I love Emily’s animated spirit and “bouncy” personality. Even when she’s tired, she has a spring in her step. I could have said, “That girl never stops,” but I thought it was nicer to put it another way. 
I appreciate Emily’s willing heart to always help others. She is an active servant. Sure, she and I have our share of whining (adult-version of course, which is probably much worse!), but always jumping to help someone is really her second-nature, and I love this about her. I am thankful she has a listening ear for me and that she prays for me. I went through a really tough time a few months ago, and she called me almost every day and listened to me cry and shared my frustration as I battled my own sin and apathy. I know that I can tell her absolutely anything, and she will still call me her friend and choose to continue in a gracious response and offer her friendship. It’s so awesome, too, to have someone who likes to download a sermon and chew on it with me for days…
I could go on and on, but it’s ridiculously late. (Sorry for my horrible, bland grammar, by the way.) Emily will always say to me, “Kristi, GET IN BED,” to which I just laugh, because she knows I don’t speak that language. What I mean is I have grown up saying, “Get in THE bed,” and I say it to this day. The first time I said that on the phone one night in FL, she laughed and asked, “What did you say?” I said, “I have to get in the bed.”
“THE bed? Like THE bed? The only one?,” as if I had a whole matress store in my garage…
“Well, what do you say?”
“I say, ‘get in bed,’ like every other normal person.”
“Oh.”
I felt dumb. Why hadn’t anyone ever told me? Oh well. I be who I be. I love her.
What do you say? “Bed” or “The bed?”
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“get in the bed” is correct because it is your bed and you are stating you are the one doing it
“get in bed”, one would have to think “what bed” unless they have been “trained” to a specific bed
the correct way to say it is “get into bed”
my sister is an english major and she points out my incorrect all the time
I have asked her to enjoy her time with me and quit correcting my grammar (which is really not bad)
Which is more important
time together laughing with and loving one another or “speaking correct grammar that only an english major would notice the “correct” way to say it
it sounds as if you two have a wonderful friendship and love each other dearly
That’s really funny. Personally, I “get in bed.”
But whatever works!!! ha ha What a blessing the Lord has given you two, such a friendship. It’s neat to hear of it and how the Lord is glorified as you seek to admonish, support, love and encourage one another in Him. Thanks for giving us a glimpse of your neat friendship! When we get to FL this fall, I hope we can meet one day….
Blessings in Christ,
Jodie R
“The Bed”. And we tell our kids - “Get in the bed”
WELL…i stand firm on my “get in bed” position. i AM a speech therapist, you know! so don’t you think i would be the expert in this syntactical debate?? just kidding.
i do use “the” for other things, like “get in the car” or “get in the house” or “go to the corner”… i don’t really know why “i have to get in the bed” strikes me as so funny…. but it does. and my husband agrees. and so does my mom.
as for the rest of your post, you are too kind. it was more than a blessing to be under your roof and to be surrounded (literally) by your sweet family. i loved throwing dinner together with you and piling all the kids in my van and making a mess in the bonus room and learning about the fonts on every billboard from you, just to name a few things.
it will be hard for me to condense our visit to a mere blog post!!!!! i love you friend. now quit reading this and go get in THE bed. 
No!
Just ’cause I went ta school in South Carolina don’t mean didn’t learn nothin’ their!
I tell Hannah to “get in bed,” but when Jonathan and I discuss bed, I say are you ready “for bed” or “let’s go to bed.” I guess it really is improper English, because I am ready to sleep not “bed.” Haha! You silly girls!!!!
I don’t say either one. I say that I’m going to my chambers to retire for the evening. That’s the cool way to say that you’re going to bed…the bed…into bed, sleep.
HAAAhahahahah… eric, you make me laugh so hard. except when you kick my tail in scrabble…
well i just had comment because this was cracking me up. we tell our son to ‘get into bed’. i ‘go to bed….’
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Yeah, we differentiate for our kids, too. We say, “go night, night.”
And I say, “no, no.”
“Kiss, Kiss.”
The more I think about it, I’m really messing up my kids.
“you all crack me up” love your children and if all of these different ways of saying things are messing kids up then we all need to see a shrink: Ha! oops no offense to anyone who is in any way in the “shrink” business for they have their own way of saying things
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