Happy Admin Day

At my job, I don't really do anymore clerical work than any other worker at our location. But my title is front office coordinator and our office manager is a great guy with the best manners, so I was very happy when he had this delivered today.
To any other admin workers out there, happy admin day and I hope you have wonderful bosses and coworkers too.

Teach us to number our days

The Time Is Now
Lord, I see with startling clarity
That life is never long enough
To put you off until tomorrow.
The things that are before are all too soon behind.
I can never pick up the years I've put down.
If I intend to walk with You tomorrow
I must start today.
By Ruth Harms Calkin

I spent the majority of my weekend in church. On Saturday I went to the second day of a womens retreat at my daughter's church. The speaker was a very wise woman, Shirley Bryan from Dallas Theological Seminary. She does not work there actually, her husband does, but pastors and their wives are usually a package deal.
Shirley talked on 3 different Psalms and I most liked her talk on Psalms 90.
It is a Psalm about time, about the frustration we feel with our fragile lives on earth and how we need to rely on God, because He is our our timekeeper, our teacher, our future, our satisfaction and our encourager and blesser.
I am almost 50, even though I feel younger, and I know I probably have less than half of my life left to live on earth. I do plan to really strive to number my days and have fewer regrets.

Man Shower

John was honored with an all guy wedding shower this week. It was set up by one his friend's mother. Didn't she do a great job with the food and decorations? Nina went over before the guests arrived and she wanted to stay but didn't.
The guys ate and played foosball and pool.






John got some nice gifts from his guy friends. Guess what guys give to other guys? gift cards :)

I especially like the cake. It looks like it is just 24 cupcakes put together in the shape of football. It is so simple but looks great and would appeal to any football fan.

Boys will be boys :)

This is what kind of picture you get when the birthday boy throws his wrapping paper in front of a digital camera with a one second delay that is supposed to taking a picture of his sister and her soon to be husband.

Nina and John, without the paper flying by.

Birthday Bob

This is son Bobby at age 1. He has always been a cheerful and happy guy. His 26th birthday is this month. We had his family party on Sunday at the same time we celebrated Easter.
Bobby is an animal welfare officer. He worked for our town for 6 years and moved to a bigger town last year to do the same job.
His dad and I are very proud of him.


Bobby opened his presents on Sunday but I will mail this card, hoping it will get to his home on his actual birthday.

My first pinkeep

I read about making these on another blog and thought they looked like lots of fun. They are just little counted cross stich pieces put together in a finished way with pretty straight pens inserted around the border. I used a free online pattern from Lizziekate.com.
I would like to make several for different occasions and display them in a basket.
Thanks to Heidi at NeedleNecessities for the great tutorial on how to make them.
http://needlenecessities.blogspot.com/