Grateful for a sweet visit from a sweet cousin and a rainbow marked our day!

Awesome weather patterns!

A Twenty minute spot shower dotted our neighborhood and it was a spectacular sight. Full sun shone into our house and the rain was torrential sending floods of water down our street. I often wonder what my neighbor cows do in such circumstances. I couldn't drive over to where they were. We just gawked in awe and wonder of God's wondrous sky and water show. We all loved it. They said, I have mommies tailcoat, in case the wind wisks her away. I was headed out to see it more fully. Those children of mine are funny.

When the torrent ended and we were looking for another one, all we found was a complete, though faint huge rainbow in our backyard! We all enjoyed it together. We said Heaven is celebrating Evie being home! Halleluia!

Come home tomorrow!!!

25 Years of the Cherry on the top of the ice cream

Emily's birthday always makes me remember that grief has a beginning and an end. A whole year of complete darkness broke into the brightness of full day. How can the same heart that was consumed in sadness, love so deeply, the next baby. Emily yanked me out of my sober sadness and whirled me into a dance of craziness and mirth that I had no expectation of before that. She is a rollercoaster ride and a strange mix of mirth and madness. I love her and I remember the first moment that she showed herself to us. I said to Ben, can we handle such a strong willed child? He said we better get ready! It has been a crazy fun ride and is still crazy fun!