Mother's Day

 I won a PLANT!!!!!

At church!

This is a big deal as I rarely win prizes :-).

This was for Mother's Day.  They had five plants to give away.  I like that our pastors go with slightly oddball criteria for prizes. For example, one young lady (not a mother yet, which is good, because she is a teenager) won a plant for leading the congregation in the singing of "How Great Thou Art." This was particularly exciting because she didn't know the song at all! But she wanted the plant :-). We all sang along with her.

I won for being the mother with the most teenagers in attendance with me at church.  Now, you'd think I'd be a shoo-in but it was a near thing.  Lydia didn't come, and neither did Miriam, so I only had THREE!!

But I won!  A plant!!  Whee!!

Ok, what else.  I probably have said this before, but when I was growing up, I had no great interest in being married with kids.  God is powerful and I think He has a sense of humor. I adore my kids to the ends of the earth and I am so thankful for them.  I think I am a good Mom even though much of it doesn't come that naturally to me.  God's plan was definitely better than my own, which was to be a single career woman.

Isaac got off his orthodontia this week! He also is quitting his Goodwill job. This summer is looking intense; he is taking two difficult college classes and he still isn't driving well.  Kevin is starting a new position at work which will be very time consuming.  So yes, me driving Isaac back and forth twice a day is just gonna be tough, plus college is more important.

I am nearing the end of another book.  I still haven't finished the epilogues (yes, there will be two) but I am already starting my final edits of the main body of the book.  I hate editing. But it is important. So...