The Surprise Weekend!

So the surprises started on Fri at about 7:30 Darcy and I had been texting back and forth about what had happened that day, when his text read "What Not to Wear?" I thought to myself how attentive that he would know what I would be watching but as you may know What Not to Wear was moved to Tue. nights when the fall t.v. schedule came out. So I responded "no, Say Yes to the Dress" which was followed by " oh it is hard to hear through the door" mean while I got off the bed to go and look into the hall outside my bedroom door, in my head I was thinking " this is one cruel joke if he is not there". It was no joke, there my man stood holding his phone and grinning at me! That was the best surprise I have had in a long time. earlier in the week I had found some great prices on flights to Orlando and talked about it with Darcy we decided that we would make the arrangements with our timeshare and buy the tickets, so I did. We intended not to tell our kids till we were getting on the plane. I went about telling all their art and dance instructors so that they were aware we would be away in April but that the kids did not know. Then on Sunday afternoon as we were driving home from having lunch with friends the radio station we were listening too asked people to text in what they were planing on doing for their spring break. I leaned over and whispered to Darcy should we text in and see if the kids catch it, he grinned at me and nodded. So I texted in and in a few minutes they read it on the air, they did not however read who had sent in that text. The text read " We home school and are taking our break in April not March. We found a great deal on flights to Orlando Fl. Jenn in Stony" Shaye immediately says "is that us?" Darcy responds "why would you think it was us?" Shaye "well we home school and have a time share in Florida" mean while I could not wipe the grin off my face I said "yes it is us". This was followed by squeals and screams of delight and excitement. The surprises did not stop there, Darcy was scheduled to return to Fort McMurray on Mon. afternoon Kristian 15Th birthday. but it turned out he was able to stay till Tue. morning. What a great weekend we had!

Beautiful Women!

Our Bible study this week was focusing on beauty and what that looks like in  women. One of the questions asked who is a women you know that is beautiful and why? The answer I had for this question was long to say the least, there are so many women who I know that are beautiful. One thing rang true about all of them they had a personal relationship with God, they cultivate that relationship and when I look at them I see Christ in them. They are like a mirror reflecting God's image back at me. Each one of these lady's I count as a blessing in my life and I thank God that he has allowed me to know each of them. They all have different attributes that they are graced with but each is a characteristic of God, as we are made in his image. Thank You all you lovely lady's who show me daily what Christ looks like, and inspire me to be more like him!