Seven things about my life between March 27th and April 2nd:

(1) It was my spring break week.  It was nice to be off work for a week - a definite perk of being a teacher.

(2) I spent a lot of time on the land - walking, photographing wild flowers, helping PawPaw do various chores like wrapping a chain around a rock so he could pull it out with the bulldozer, burning brush piles, and making lunch runs to Subway.  My photographs didn’t turn out too well.  I am going to look for a new camera - something I will need on our trip to Alaska in September.

(3) I took Sweet Stuff and Sunshine to Georgia to visit my mother.  They were so excited to see Grandma Ruth, and I was pleased to see that she was looking better and stronger than she had been the last time I visited. (She’s had several surgeries during the past year).

(4) I had intended to stay in Georgia until Sunday afternoon, but I left Saturday evening instead because the girls were ready to get back home to their mother (my daughter).  That meant I missed hearing my mother preach this morning at the local Methodist church.  I’m hated to miss her sermon, but I’m still glad I came home because it gave the girls today to be with their parents before getting back into the school/work routine tomorrow, and it gave me a chance to get settled a little bit before going back to work tomorrow.

(5) Sunshine fell asleep in my arms Friday night, and I held her for several hours while I talked and visited with two of my sisters, one brother, a niece and my mother.  It was very tender to look down and see Sunshine’s peaceful and content face as she slept in my arms.

(6) This morning I went to church with PawPaw.  The sermon was about laziness and greed (sloth and avarice - two of the seven deadly sins).  I have problems with both.  I will probably write about one of his quotes on laziness.

(7) I made chicken and dumplings for my family for dinner Friday night, and when I wrote an email to my extended family inviting anyone who could to come over and eat, I got an email response from my nephew who is in the army stationed in Germany saying he wished he could be there - that one of the things he’s looking forward to when he comes home is a good home-cooked meal.  I wish I could send him some chicken and dumplings.

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