Going to Texas!

Well mom arrived safely yesterday - but not her luggage!! Can you believe on a direct flight they couldn't keep up with one piece of luggage! We've been notified that they have located it and it has arrived in Cincinnati and will be delivered to my house today - SOMETIME between 8 am and 8 pm! Thankfully we scheduled a lay-over here in Cincinnati before our Texas leg of the trip - so we have time for it to get here. It was a pretty hard trip for her to make alone - so I'm glad I'll be with her going to Texas. We are so excited to see Georgia & Jim and their family and Dick and Kay are down there for the winter also - Texas must be the place to be! So we will have a wonderful visit. It's supposed to snow in the morning - so everyone pray that we get to the airport on time, safely and our trip goes off without a hitch. Well, I'd better go finish packing! More later from Texas!

Cooking and cleaning

Since I will be gone for 2 weeks at the beginning of February - I am doing alot of dinners for Daniel's robotics team. Last week I made Lasagna for 35 and last night spaghetti casserole for 35. Tonight I am taking in dessert. Wednesday is my day off and it is a snowy day - so I am going to clean the "grandma" room - getting ready for my mom to come next week and then clean my crafting space in the basement and work on some hand-made cards. Nice inside projects! Mom and I will be heading off to Georgia's new home in Houston Texas on February 1st! I am so excited. I will be there until Feb 13th and mom will stay all month... a good month to be out of Buffalo...and Cincinnati!

Busy time of year

Most of the church's year-end statements have been finished and mailed out. I've spent all day today preparing the DMI's year-end statements. I will probably finish getting them in their envelopes and ready to mail by Monday. I will be so glad to have these huge jobs finished. Soon it will be time to start planning the garden and getting my seeds ready to plant. We've hit a real rainy spell but no snow yet. Possibly next week we'll finally get some. I hope it gets cold enough to kill off all the insects - or I'll have a real fight on my hands this spring & summer.

Happy Birthday Michael!

My oldest son, Michael, is 26 today. I cannot tell you how quickly the years have flown by - I treasure every precious memory of the joys and sorrows of raising my three sons! The Lord has blessed John and I so much - we have had so many, many wonderful joys as we have participated in their lives and very few times of tragedy. When a trial - illness, injury, accident - has come - God has been right there, seeing us through. It is with grateful hearts that we celebrate Michael's birth today. We are blessed yet again as all three boys are here together with us to enjoy Michael's choice of Southern Chicken Pie for dinner, followed by Mrs. B's wonderful Chocolate Share Cake (known to others as Texas sheet cake or Mississippi Mud Cake) - by whatever name it is a rich fudge cake that my guys love!
I heard today that our new windows will be installed next Wednesday - so I have extra encouragement to take down the Christmas decorations. We plan to do most of it on Saturday - which is Epiphany (or Kings' day). Thankfully we have had very little cold weather yet - so the windows are coming just in time.
One other thing I wanted to mention is one of my New Year's projects - I've gathered together a list of websites that one can use to have their quiet time. The first is a one-year bible site and you can either read the day's portion or choose to listen to it. If you are interested in the group of sites I plan to use each day I am posting the information here:
www.mommoboysprayerpage.zoomshare.com/1.shtml
I hope that having everything opening in tabs and being right at my fingertips will help me with a consistent quiet time.