I'm just tired tired tired this week. That's it - too tired to write any more and must go pick up the kids. Jackson qualifies to test for his green belt so that is the news we've been waiting for. Master Lee is leaving TD and that is news we could have done without...
Jeff is coming home tonight YAY
To everyone celebrating Easter today hope it is a terrific and blessed day for you! If you're not celebrating hope it's a terrific and blessed day as well!
We are all up. The kids found all of the eggs I filled and hid around the house last night. They've inspected their Easter baskets which had minimal candy this year...sampled a few jelly beans, and now everyone's waiting for the Blintz Brunch Bake to come out of the oven (http://www.kraftfoods.com/kf/recipes/recipedetail.htm?recipe_id=54201)
This is so yummy...I've been making it for Easter the past few years.
Next I'm baking an angel food cake to fill with a pudding & fruit mixture for our dessert - then the ham will go in.(into the oven, not into the cake, LOL)
Mass at either 12:15 or 2:00 then hopefully a little scrapping to relax. Can't believe it's back to work tomorrow so trying not to think about it. I should be excited because this week marks the beginning of the next chapter at work (change = opportunity for me) and we got some great news last night - in two weeks one of our favorite teachers from the kids' daycare is starting as our nanny for the summer and possibly beyond. This should make for a really fun summer for the babes as well as make life a little easier on us because we won't have the picking up and dropping off before and after work - which is time consuming and a bit of a pain at times and WE LOVE HER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
so YAY for us!
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Rain is in the forecast for today but the sun is out right now. My daffodils and some tulips have been blooming and the front and side beds were just mulched so it's a good feeling to look outside right now.
Here are a couple of pics I took of what's going on out front... 
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...and so every day I get into my car to drive to work thinking to myself "I'd rather be scrapbooking"
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I really should be sleeping HOWEVER this is the quiet time that I enjoy so gonna go get a cookie and when I finish this I'm going to bed! The exciting things are that I still have 3 days of vacation left this week! I am able to stop going into DC to work starting next week and if I can avoid going next week so much the better! I'm getting a new work computer on Monday, YAY! We're talking to someone tomorrow about being our nanny for the summer so the kids get a break from all day at camp/daycare/whatever you want to call it it's not home! Celebratin' with that cookie now!
And Mary said
My soul doth magnify the Lord,
And my spirit hath rejoiced
In God my Saviour.
For the that is mighty
Hath done to me great things;
And holy is His name.
Luke 1:46-47, 49
Maybe ecstatic is pushing it a bit but there was no option for elated to describe how I’m feeling. I don’t typically get all religious on my blog but had to stop and testify to the fact that just as God carried me through a previous bad time on the job He’s led me to the right people to have the right conversations so that I can be in a better spot once again. “My work here is done” is about right to sum up my current gig and I have something in the works but in the interim there appears to be some project work to keep me busy (and out of trouble) and so I can transition next week rather than playing the waiting game to see if the new position pans out or not.
I am so eternally grateful that God has not only shown me that the only way to go is to rely on Him completely but has delivered the right thing yet again. There’s no need to fear or panic….so now I’m off to make dinner then try out a kick-boxing class.
And in my head I’m singing Boston’s
Don't Look Back
(Scholz)
Don't look back
A new day is breakin'
It's been too long since I felt this way
I don't mind where I get taken
The road is callin'
Today is the day
I can see
It took so long to realize
I'm much too strong
Not to compromise
Now I see what I am is holding me down
I'll turn it around
I finally see the dawn arrivin'
I see beyond the road I'm drivin'
Far away and left behind
It's a new horizon and I'm awakin' now
Oh I see myself in a brand new way
The sun is shinin'
the clouds are breakin'
'Cause I can't lose now, there's no game to play
I can tell
There's no more time left to criticize
I've seen what I could not recognize
Everything in my life was leading me on
but I can be strong
I finally see the dawn arrivin'
I see beyond the road I'm drivin'
Far away and left behind
PEOPLE
People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centered; Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies; Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight; Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous; Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough
Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and GOD;
It was never between you and them anyway.
My friend just sent this to me. I just googled it and the author is Kent M. Keith. This poem is often attributed to Mother Teresa who had it hanging on the wall in her school/orphanage. However, Mr. Keith wrote these words in his book Do It Anyway: The Handbook for Finding Personal Meaning and Deep Happinessin a Crazy World
My very own baby sister (I'm 46 and she's 43 but she'll always be my baby sister) won 2nd prize at the Philadelphia Flower Show for a floral arrangement she worked on with another designer (whose name I don't know but when I find out I'll give her props)!!!!!!
Yay Valerie!!!!
Val started designing about 25 years ago - geez time flies! and does a lot of wedding flowers and special event type things. 25 years worth is a lot of flower petals! You go girl!!! Big Sis is so proud of you!!!!
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