Wonderful Day!

After spending the last couple of days somewhat melancholy, knowing my Mom's birthday was coming and missing her a lot~

I woke up this morning in a great mood! I still miss her~ but there was a calm, a feeling like she is here with us on her birthday, spending the day with us as we go about our business...

Katie was up bright and early frosting the cake she baked yesterday and then carefully counted out 63 candles and stuck them in her masterpiece. This afternoon we will have cake and milk for Grandma's birthday. This feeling that she is with us really has me feeling ok today.

So the kids and I are going to look at a house this morning, I have a parent teacher conference for my Lizzard this afternoon, then we are having a little birthday party for Grandma, dinner and then Youth Group for Katie. Speaking of...

Katie did Job's Daughters last night~ she enjoyed herself and will be petitioning. I am really happy for her. She will be learning a lot in the next few years with the involvement, not to mention that it is a group that will instill good manners and behaviors in her. It is great that so many things came together to make her transition back home really easy and to have so much support in place to pick up and help her.

I know her Dad loves her and was trying to do his best for her... I think that at times it is so easy to get stuck in one way of thinking and forget there are other ways to look at a situation. I know that for my Ex, he really has a tough time with acknowledging things have changed. He will fight the change and pretend it isn't happening. So when our daughter started into true adolecents, he just couldn't adjust his thinking to accomadiate her changing needs.

My prayer for him is that he realizes just how important he is in the life of both of our children and stop punishing them for loving their mother. It hurts the kids so much when he refuses to talk to them because they have chosen a relationship with me.

Well time for us to get going~ a house a house a house YAY!