Weekly Rewind 5/3-5/9/10

~Several doctor's appointments last week brought more reasons to praise God for His goodness to us.  My c-section date has been firmed up, and all is looking well thus far.  Whistler had her mouth appliance put on, and other than some pain this weekend, she is adjusting nicely. 

~My Mom was hospitalized mid-week and was able to come home on Mother's Day!  She still needs prayers for completely healing and restoration of strength. 

~I had a wonderful Mother's Day, getting two of the best presents on Saturday.  Everyone tackled the laundry room, cleaning it up and organizing it.  I even have a hanging system for the mops and brooms! :)  As a bonus gift, Mountain Man fixed the dryer for me.  I can now dry clothes in a fraction of the time, and this Queen Mom is so, so, so, so happy.  With a family our size, it really is depressing to only be able to get through a couple loads a day.  Washed laundry is beautiful, you know!

~Saturday found us with a total flat on the van.  Praise God, Reaches Up noticed it early in the day, and we were able to get everything fixed pretty quickly.

~After church on Sunday, we enjoyed a nice lunch of Rigatoni, bread, and salad, accompanied by sweet tea, of course.  The children put together these lovely suprises....flowers, pretty cards, and balloons.

~Scribe and Little Big Man creatively put hole-punch clippings in a couple of the balloons and rained down confetti on us all.  It was so sweet!

~~Little Big Man and Scribe surprised me with a gift certificate to Monergism, too, so I can enjoy Meet the Puritans, a book I've been wanting since finishing Doug Wilson's biography of Anne Bradstreet.

Here's a lovely quote the children included on the banner.....

"A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine, desert us when troubles thicken around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts."

~Washington Irving

Our lives and our weeks are far from perfect.  They're full of God's ways of sanctifying us, so that means pain, disappointment, and face-to-face confrontations with our sinful hearts.  BUT, when we learn to give thanks in everything, we can truly always have a merry heart..  He is sovereign, and He is faithful.  There is always something to rejoice about when you know Him.   

So blessed,