It's a web made to catch a dream

They call it the "Golden October." And that's what it has been! Today was warm enough for a t-shirt. We found a little house with a grass roof in the middle of the forest. It looks like it's only a weekend get-away for the owners. You should have been there. The brown and yellow and orange leaves looked like they were about to catch fire from the sun, and some were peacefully falling to the earth. The wind blew gently in the trees. Ammon said, "Mama, this is Ammon's house?" with a wishful nod and a smile. I don't think I would really want to live in the house though. It seemed like it would be so damp and cold and windy inside. But the dream is romantic. Ammon was being silly the other day. I told him he was eccentric. I didn't imagine he'd ever understand what I was saying, but he said, "Ich spinnst!" (Which means approximately, "I crazy!") I guess he does know the meaning of the word "eccentric" after all! We found an apartment. The address is Legienstrasse 21. It's pronounced [la-geen'-shtrah-sa]. We moving to Neumünster after all. I prayed about it and we just feel better about Neumünster for some strange reason. The apartment is right by a park and the farmer's market comes once a week just around the corner and there's a grocery store, Oma and Opa, and Mona and Rawad (Patrick's sister and brother -in-law) within walking distance and a bakery and a barber and a pharmacy right around the corner. The bus system is really good so I can take the bus to the train station (15 minute walk though.) And downtown is a 15 minute walk too. Church is far away, but some members would probably be glad to pick us up on Sundays. The apartment itself is nice too. There's 2 bedrooms, a living room, a bathroom, and a kitchen and a hallway/entry way. There are big huge openable windows in every room. And there's a big backyard area. Ammon ran into the apartment when we went to look at it and looked around. When he decided which room the biggest was, he said, "This Ammon's room!" That was a couple of days ago. Then, last night, we were reading a book and he saw some stars in the sky that look like the glow-in-the-dark stars you put on ceilings. He said, "That in Ammon's room!" And sure enough, there are glow in the dark stars on the ceiling of the biggest room in the apartment. He notices everything. Ammon ran off the other day. I had just changed his clothes and hadn't put shoes and socks on him yet. Then I did laundry and he was right behind me. When I turned around though, he was gone. I went around the house and looked for him, but didn't find him. I asked Dagmar and Matthias if they had seen him, they hadn't, and they started looking. That was when I went outside to look. Matthias took the car and drove aound the village. Dagmar and Patrick and I looked in the area. I felt so helpless because I didn't even know where to start. Then Matthias came, Ammon wasn't in the car. We kept looking. Matthias went a different way. I went back in the house to look in all the bedrooms one more time because I thought he might be hiding. But then I heard his voice from downstairs. Matthias had found him on a bridge at the end of our street looking down at the water. His feet and pants half way to his knees were wet from the dew. The funny thing was, Matthias had been sitting at the table, and should have noticed Ammon going out, but Ammon has a talent for sneaking out unnoticed. He even shut that big heavy door silently! I told him over and over again that whole day never to do that again. And everyone else told him how dangerous it was...he could have fallen in the stream, gotten bit by a dog, taken by a bad man...Now he's keeps talking about how he could go to Jesus. I hope he understands that that's not a good thing just yet. I told him he can go to Jesus when he's old. So he says, "I old! I three!"