Sunday Blessings

I thought I would tell you all about a couple sweet little blessings I got today. Mr. J has been out of town at Sandcamp (website conference) and visiting his brother in San Diego this weekend, and I have got to stay home with our sweet, sick kids. On Wednesday, Miss M came down with a fever and an awful sounding cough. Thankfully, despite this sickness she has been her normal, energetic self and being sleeping just fine at night. Miss O and Mr. J started getting this same upper respiratory infection on Friday. I have been feeling fine but if I take a really deep breath I can hear some rattling. Miss M only coughs occassionally now and I think she is almost all better. Anyways, these sicknesses changed my weekend plans a bit. Today we were planning on church, a church potluck (who doesn't love a nummy church potluck?), and AWANAS. Since I didn't feel it would be very kind of me to put my 2 sickest, Miss O and Mr. T, in Sunday School or the Nursery and Mr. J wasn't going to be there to sit with me in the service with them, I had to make the tough decision to stay home. But we had a great morning and afternoon. The kids and I used our extra time to get some cleaning done and take a nap. Mr. T took his first nap outside of his crib in his big boy bed! Isn't that exciting?

So the first blessing I will tell you about is that my super cool sister and Tom came over later this afternoon so I could take Miss M to AWANA's and I could fulfill my weekly commitment as AWANA Trek (middle school) Secretary. I am so glad I was able to go because it was triple buck night and so many of the kids had memorized verses! The best part was, when I came home the table was set and a yummy dinner of spaghetti was all made. Thanks Deanna and Tom! We love you guys! After they left and I cleaned up from dinner, I decided to end my day of cleaning with some vacuuming. I got my small oreck out to do the stairs, when little Miss M, said to her big, pregnant mommy. Oh mom, I know how to do this, I will vacuum for you. Yes, my 4 year old daughter offered to vacuum the stairs! She did a fabulous job. She is very detailed oriented so she did just as well as I would have done. I also think she thought it was super fun.

So there you go, the two highlights of my day. Now I will be praying that Mr. J makes it home safely in his Subaru (aka "the coolest car in the world" by Miss M, who said the reason why is cause the back windows roll down.. unlike our vans). Good night!