So often I write posts in my head and don't ever write it  Girls are still sleeping and its about 10:30. The time change was nice. Yesterday we packed up and left for TN and will be here all week and if they don't get done what they want will stay till the next week. It's not as easy for me to pack up and leave home for so long, its work and the babies need to get use to sleeping somewhere else and their schedule gets messed up etc. We love staying at Marks parents place. They have a finished basement and a washer and dryer and we can pretty much live downstairs without bothering them, of course the girls love to go upstairs and be with Mommy and hopefully I can help her with meals. Can you believe it, I didn't bring anything along to do besides schoolwork for Gwenyth. So often I bring either scrapbooking, or sewing and I don't touch it and my husbands despairs with me, all that dragging along for nothing, so I decided to not do it this time, I did bring four books along to read.

Colds and fever have made their rounds at out house this past week and I'm ready to go south and soak up some sunshine and feel the sand beneath my feet. Oh how I wish. The funny thing is that it's suppose to be warmer at home then here. I think we should have stayed home. I know spring is coming, I can feel it in the air and see it in the flowerbeds, flowers are poking their heads through. But why do I have this feeling we are going to see some snow yet????? Lets just hope they are wrong.

One day Mark came home from work and gave me a card and I opened it up and here was $150. My mouth fell opened. A birthday, Christmas, Valentines day gift all in one. I still haven't spend it all and you know when you are so use to spending money on your children and for only things you need, you tend to hang on to it for awhile, cause when do I have time to go shopping for myself and by myself?? I have dreams of going shopping one day b.y.m.y.s.e.l.f. and browse through the stores and just have fun of knowing I have money to buy some things I've wanted  I did have one requirement, something I was told too buy. Don't you wish you knew what it was???  Now I'm dreaming of going away by ourselves for a weekend and just being together and knowing I have my husband all to myself and not having the demands of our children. I love my girlies dearly but sometimes I need a break to clear my head and to be able to connect again with my husbands or to be able to handle the demands of a mother. I think about it alot more since I've heart problems, I can't handle the stress like I use to, I need my rest, I can't run on five hours of sleep. It gets frustrating, I'm still learning my limits, it has been hard for me, cause I love to have company and party, but my husband has helped me to see this. My children and husband are important and when I'm under stress they suffer. 

Prayer. Oh the power of prayer. Thinking today of the Morris family and all the hurt and pain that has been going on and my heart just aches for them and I wonder how much more they can handle but I know that God is powerful and He will see them through and He does answer prayer if we trust Him. Please pray for them. They need a miracle.

Summer can hardly get here fast enough, reunions, camping, swimming, vacations, barefoot, slurping popsicles, eating homemade ice cream, mowning lawn, burying your toes in the nice soft dirt, eating fresh veggies out of the garden, and the list could go on and on. I miss not blogging and I'm determined to let it go so long again.  May you feel Gods love shining on you today.