Banquets and such....

Hello Wednesday. The sun is bright and shining. The birds are singing and I feel a cool breeze coming through the door. I have a hot cup of coffee. I love mornings like this. It is quiet. Baby girl is down for a little snooze. The Today show is on in the background.

What a very busy couple of weeks I have had. I am so glad that they are over. I have been working crazy hours. But they are over and I have spent the last 2 days cuddling with my little baby girl. How I have missed her. I think on Friday I saw her for maybe an hour. She was sleeping when I went to work and she was sleeping when I got home.

Today I am thankful for friends who let me talk to them when I am sitting in the food court crying bc I feel like I have abandoned my baby.

Today I am thankful that my job is part time. And that while during holidays I work crazy hours, there are times that I am not very busy. God is good and knows what we can handle.

On Saturday, I was able to go to my Mom's mother/daughter banquet at her church. What a work God is doing in their church. It is so very neat to see how God brings beauty from ashes.

Everyone but Melanie. 4 sleeps till she is here. I can't wait. :)

                                                                     My girls.

Heather Lehman was the speaker at the banquet. Heather went to my church when I was younger and her mother was my Sunday School teacher. It was nice to see her and to catch up.

And what is a mother/daughter banquet without being mauled all over by your crazy aunts??

Emma just better get used to it I think.

Well, my dryer just buzzed, so I better get going. Hopefully we can get my little garden tilled today so I can get some veggies planted. On Saturday, Heather told us that her husband is a gardener and that 1 year he planted 48 tomato plants. 48!! I about croaked. I bet they were swimming in tomatoes!!! I think I will stick to my 2 plants this year. :)

I was sad that bc I worked on Mother's day, I didn't get the annual mother's day picture with my kids. They were very sweet to me though. They got me a couple beads for my bracelet and some cards. I loved Nathan's homemade card. He wrote on the inside Roses are Red Violets are blue, I hope you rember me. I cried. I am so thankful for my children. I am so thankful for how God is molding and shaping me into the mother they need. I am not the perfect mother. I make mistakes and some days I feel like I fail miserably. But.....I love. I love them with my whole heart. The only way I know how.