What's up in my wonderful life

I am thankful for many things. I had the family see who could write the most in 5 minutes. Glenn won. We checked to see who listed Christ earliest, I won. We then read Luke 2. We are going to do this every Sabbath for a month. It only takes 5 minutes of your life (what I told the murmuring kids). We then played a dice game Aunt Cyndi told us about. We played 3 rounds and it was fun like she said.

I almost have another quilt top done. This is for Dale's friend who has breast cancer. I hope it can all be done by Friday, maybe Wednesday. But I'm on the computer instead of sewing. I'm tired and don't want to make mistakes on it. It was a l o n g week end.

I want to help host the GC cookie exchange this year. Kim was to busy when I asked her and Marsha moved away.

We got a lot of our Christmas shopping done on Black Friday. I have been addicted to Bath and Body Works because of Jeanelle and have been shopping there all year, so I have some easy gift giving for some.

I need to spend some time nurturing friendships. My kids, family and husband have been a priority and I'm sensing a shift is needed in the next couple of years so I don't freak out when all my kids leave the nest.

I want to go home.

But with tears in my eyes on Sunday (and while writing this post), we are not. Bloom where you are planted. It was fun to look at houses and school systems and dream. I planned out Dale's commute to work and how long to get to my mom and dad's for the annual Thanksgiving reunion most of my kids have never been to. I also planned out season tickets we would get. It was fun to dream for a short season.
Time to come back to reality and buckle down to the work Heavenly Father has for me here. Will I ever understand what that is? "Thy will be done", not mine.