Here I go again

Guess where I'm going tomorrow?
I've been Geocaching all last week, and most of this week, and I'm going again tomorrow.
I've got bumps and bruises from climbing this tree, but yes, I did find the cache.
I crossed a creek on Monday to get to a cache, and along the way I took a stick to the eye. Not fun. My new boots said they were waterproof so I had to prove it. My feet got a smidge wet, but not enough to bother me. I suppose when they say waterproof, they don't actually mean go wading across creeks. On another cache, I almost fell into the river while trying to reach a cache that was hidden deep under a wall on the riverbank. We slid down the slippery banks on the edge of a cemetery only to be disappointed to find out that the tree limb we needed to balance on over the river was way under water and we couldn't reach the cache. If it was warmer weather we probably would have tried it. Maybe. I did see a river rat swimming around the tree limb. Ugh. We got poked and scratched by thorns and found one geocache hiding in the skull of an animal. Fun times. Fun times.
Anyway, bright and early tomorrow morning, I'll be heading out again in search of little containers with a little piece of paper in it so I can sign my geocaching name to it. I know....crazy.
Crazy, but fun.

Funerals Bring back Old Friends

It seems that I have a habit of reviving old friendships at funerals.
Several months ago, the mom of my good friend from high school died.
I hadn't seen this friend since my wedding almost 12 years ago. We have renewed our friendship and have gotten together often. We picked up where we left off and have lots of fun together.
Today I went to the funeral of the dad of my best childhood friend.
We met in second grade and nobody could separate us until high school. We chose different paths then, and went our separate ways. We didn't go to the same elementary school but only lived a block away from each other. We did go to the same high school together though. When school was in session, we would go to our different schools, get out at 3, I would be at her house by 3:15, I would leave for supper at 5 and be back at her house by 5:30 until 8. In summer if I wasn't sleeping over at her house, which I did often, I was at her house early morning and leave at 10:00 p.m. We weren't always at her house, but we were always together. It was a great childhood.
The last time I saw her was at her mom's funeral 20 years ago. But I never stopped thinking about her. As my girls were (are) growing up I tell them stories about the things my friend and I have done. Good grief, not everything though. If I see my kids jumping off the garage roof, or smoking behind the garage, there will be trouble. I think we're safe in the stealing alcohol department. We have no alcohol in the house.
Even though I was sad that my friends dad has died, I was excited to see her again. I walked in, looked around, saw her sister, then looked the other way and spotted her. I think. She looked at me, I looked at her then we both got huge smiles and ended up in a giant hug. Then her sister comes up and stares at me, my old friend says who I am and she screams. A good, happy to see you scream, not a what the heck happened to you scream. I think.
My friend and I talked about 30 minutes and caught up on a little bit of our lives. I cannot believe she is a grandma! No way can I picture me as a grandma. Phone numbers and e-mails and promises to use them were exchanged and I left.
It was so good to see her again, and I hope we can get together soon. I want to help her clean out her dads house. I can't believe he still lived in the house that I was often at, for so many years. I want to sleep out on the screen porch or in the psychedelic canvas tent on a hot summer night. I want to get all creeped out in their cool but scary basement. I want a glass of water from their bathroom sink. It was way better than the kitchen water, but don't ask me why. I want to pick out a game to play from the awesome upstairs closet that connected two bedrooms. That closet was big enough to be a bedroom. Yes we tried to make it into one. And yes, they had every cool game there was in the 70's. Heck, I might even try to jump off the garage again. I'll pass on the smoking in the small stuffy attic or out the front bedroom window, but I will crawl out the back bedroom window and tan on the roof.
I think it's true that funerals are for the living, because honestly, what can the deceased do about it? My friends dads funeral hopefully will bring two old friends back together again, just like it did at my other friends moms funeral.

Busy Weekend and FINALLY!

Us girls had a filled up weekend.
It started out with my MIL calling up and saying that Disney On Ice was coming to our area soon and would we like to go.
Now, I'm not one to pass up an offer of other people buying my and my childrens way into an event, but I thought $60 a ticket was a bit much. She insists on front row seats. I told her that we have been to DOI many times and maybe we could find something else to do with the girls. For less money.
So Friday night we headed out to an old Victorian house that was decorated still for Christmas. It was the first house in the world to have hydro powered electricity, back in the 1800's.
Their website said it was open Thursday and Friday nights until the 15th. HA!
We got there and the sign on the door told us that the last night tours ended on Dec. 23. The website made no mention of that.
Now what?
MIL brought up a play/musical that was playing in the area, but didn't know where. Well gee, let's head right on over....WHERE?!
Called Perry, he looked it up somehow and we made our way there.
The only seats left were balcony, last row. Whatever, it was something to do.
Come to find out that the theater is not that big and balcony, last row were perfect seats. The seating was so steep, that the person in front of you was not in our way at all. And to not have anyone behind us was great.
The musical was really good. It was called Forever Plaid.
My MIL really liked it because the music was from her era.
I liked it because I knew most of the songs, and the actors really did a great job. Their singing was awesome.
The girls liked it because it was a grown up thing to do and they felt pretty cool going to a grown up musical.
After that we went to a greasy burger joint and ate junk food. Yum,

Saturday, I went to lunch with my long lost high school friend. She was at our wedding 11 years ago, and I saw her at her moms funeral a few months back. That's been it in 11+ years. How terrible.
It was an awesome reunion. We sat at the restaurant for two hours eating and gabbing, then went to her house and caught up on more years for 7 more hours! We picked right up like we never had that big span of years between us. It was wonderful and so much fun. We promised each other that we will not let years go by like that again. Good grief, she only lives in the next city. It's not like she lives forever away!
Perry asked me before I left when I would be home. I told him..."getting together and talking with "L"...about midnight". He laughed but didn't think I was serious. Well it wasn't midnight but being on a lunch date for 9 hours made it pretty close.

Today my MIL called and asked if we wanted to go to that Victorian house today. So we went. What a gorgeous house! We had a guided tour and the lady was so filled with information. The woodwork and decor was so beautiful.
Sadly I could take no pictures of either the play or the house.

FINALLY! After many months of it hanging by a thread, Abby's front tooth came out. Seriously, this tooth was hanging at Thanksgiving, and everybody was ready to hand over their money when it came out. Thanksgiving came and went. For sure by Christmas it was going to come out and she would have to sing, All I want for Christmas is my Two Front Teeth. Everybody was ready to hand over their money on Christmas too, Nope! Christmas came and went. She hung on to it. The new tooth was already growing behind it. Finally last week, I told to just get behind it and flip it out. She tried but didn't think anything happened. I saw it fly out across the room and she tried feeling it with her tongue and found out that nothing was there. Yahoo! At last it's out. She has about 4 or 5 other loose ones too. Who knows when they're coming out.
The tooth fairy came through well.

It was a filled and fun weekend.

Hello Miss "W"

Miss "W" you know who you are. I am not going to put your real name here because I don't have your permission to do so. You are my friend. We were neighbors when I lived in a different state. Our children played together. You were/are devastated when/that I moved away. Right? ;o)
Yes Miss "W" it's you. OK, now that you know this post is about you, listen up. I know you have been reading my blog, because you told me you did. I asked you why you never left a comment and you said you did not know how. This is your lucky day. I am going to give you a step by step on how to leave me a comment. Why are comments important you ask? Because we who blog have the need to feel loved by people we will never meet. :oD I know you and I have met, but comments are welcome by all. Unless you're mean.

Here we go....

1) Read what I posted. (I know you have that one down.)
2) At bottom of post you will see Posted by -stephanie- the time and how many comments I have. Click on the comments part.
3) A smallish box will come up with the hundreds of comments I get for each post. (Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha....hundreds of comments.....Ha, ha, ha, ha....)
Scroll down to the bottom of the comment box and see another little box which says "leave your comment. This is where YOU WRITE YOUR COMMENT!)
4) After your done extolling my virtues, go down to "Choose an Identity"
Click on Name or Anonymous
5) If you click on name, then another little box will pop up and you can stick whatever name you want in here. (ex: "Miss "W", your beautiful friend, your real name....) If you click on Anonymous, let me know somehow in your comment that it's you.
6) Click on publish your comment or preview to see how it will show up. If you hit preview, be sure to hit publish your comment when you are done previewing.
7) Be proud when it shows up.
8) Know that I will be thrilled.


On to other things.
Christmas is very close to being here.
My shopping done.
My wrapping is not.
We did get a tree.
It is decorated and beautiful.
While geocaching yesterday, my girls spotted a huge ice rink.
They abandoned the geocache search for "skating" around on the ice.
After I found the geocache, they begged for ice skates.
We went to a thrift store and scored ice skates for them. $3 and $5.
We went home to get properly dressed and went back to the ice rink.
I didn't have skates but I helped them since they never ice skated before.
They caught on fast. A few falls, but don't we all.
Music blaring from speakers on the lighted rink made for a fun time.
I wanted to skate. :o(
I dropped them off at home an hour and some bruises later and went out in search for ice skates for me.
Found some at "Play It Again Sports" (used but good sporting goods) for $15.
Was going to buy some for Perry but not sure if he wanted any.
Got home....he wanted a pair.
Went out this morning and scored him a pair for $10.
Hopefully we will be able to go tonight and try our new skates out. We are having freezing drizzle out, so we may have to postpone our fun for a day.
Oooo, just got a whiff of the venison tenderloins I have in the crockpot. Yum.
Just noticed that all my posts in December start with an "H".
Cool stuff on sale for $5. at Old Navy. My wardrobe has increased for cheap.
I almost got my hair cut shorter than usual yesterday, but I will wait until....I don't know when until will be. Maybe my birthday.
I did enjoy my little spa day anyway. Hair wash, eyebrow wax, hair cut, blow dry, style, hand and neck massage. Ahhh very relaxing.
Was bummed that it was cloudy last night and we didn't get to see the lunar eclipse. The last time it happened was 400 years ago and it won't happen again in over 300 years. I have no words for the disappointment I am having.
This post is done.
Miss "W" (and others) it is now your turn. :o)
Merry Christmas Week.

An Apple a Day...

Abby and I went apple picking yesterday. Many of the trees are already bare, but we found a few with some major big apples on them.


We picked 13 pounds! Now to find a use for them.

Abby brought a huge apple to her teacher, because that's what kids do, right? Or is that only if they want a good grade? ;o)

In other news...Phoebe is doing well with her broken leg. Her doctor report found that the bone pulled away from the other side of the bone, but that just means it will take longer to heal. The doctor was not concerned about it.
Yesterday at school, she was scratching her leg by sticking a pen down in her cast. The cap fell off the pen and is now stuck in her cast. We tried to fish it out but we can't get it. Her next x-ray should be funny and a surprise to the doctor. Or maybe not, I'm sure they've seen it all on an x-ray.

Yesterday I went to my 3rd funeral in 2 months. The mother of a friend from high school died. I haven't seen this friend in 11 years! It was a wonderful reunion for us and I made her late for her own mother's funeral. We were talking so much that someone had to come get her and let her know they were ready to start. Oops. It's too bad that it took a funeral to get us back together.

It's a beautiful autumn day here and I'm going to get some laundry on the clothesline. Ahhh, that makes me content.
A happy day to you too.

Our 4th of July

Our Independence Day celebration started off with our going to church. We sang America the Beautiful. I cried. I love the country we live in.
We then hosted our annual 4th of July party.
50 people showed up.
40 chicken kabobs were grilled.
36 brats.
32 hamburgers.
24 hot dogs.
10 different salads.
8 different desserts.
3 watermelon.
3 coolers of beverages.
2 other side dishes.
2 gallons of lemonade.
1 ton of fun had by all.



There was swimming, game playing, picture taking, (not by me as you can see) 2 brief downpours which seemed to add to the fun, not hinder it. Kids parading around the yard to patriotic music, and lots of friendly fellowship between family and friends.
Of course there were fireworks to end the evening. Sparklers, smoke bombs, fountains, and a few that could have brought the authorities, but thankfully didn't.
We celebrated our independence with flare. Our little family decided that this was our best party yet.

God Bless America!

Girls Rock!

Yesterday I went Geocaching with two women geofriends. We met while geocaching and because this got in our blood we are friends because of it. Perry went a few weeks ago with the guys, and yesterday was the girls turn. We went to the shores of Lake Michigan. In geocaching, the hides are given a rating of 1 to 5 on terrain and 1-5 on difficulty of hide. 1 being the easiest and 5 the hardest. When Perry went, the group he was with found 70 caches. That is a most excellent day. Need I mention that they found mostly ratings of 1-3. Pffft, anyone can do that! :o)
Us woman (we met up with another girl cacher who lives in that area) found 27 caches. Another fine days work. However....we were doing mostly terrains of 5 and difficulty of hides at 4 and 5.
We climbed down muddy hills, waded through tall, wet grasses, dug through insect infected areas, and even had to handle blood and guts filled fish hooks. We are tough.
Our best and most fun caches of the day were when we climbed over the rocky shore of Lake Michigan looking for 4 caches. We had to shrink ourselves to fit in to slivers of openings to go search out the caches. If you are not fond of tiny enclosed places, then this is not the place to be.


Because only one can fit at a time, we all took turns going in. Yes the cache was found by the first one in, but we wanted brag say that we were able to beat the terrain and capture the cache.

It was dry down there even though we were right on the lake. It was neat hearing the crashing echo of the waves hitting the shore.
We had such a great time. Since we started geocaching, I have been to places I never would have even thought to go to. Or in, for that matter.
I was wiped out last night and after a nice hot shower, I dropped dead. I am sore today from all the climbing. But I'd do it again today if it wasn't raining and lightening out.
Oh wait...yes I would. I cached in weather like that last week.
Yup...it's in my blood.

Our Weekend

and what a busy, fun filled weekend it was.

Saturday we went geocaching from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Perry bought a new hat when we found a cache at a surplus store.

Abby needing a drink after a hot trek in the woods. Their grandma made them mini versions of the bag that Perry carries on his geocaching adventures. Got to carry the essentials...water, kleenex, snacks, trade items, socks, toilet paper... Hers seems to be blending in to the environment. :o)

On Sunday, Perry and I went to my friends daughters wedding. Do we clean up well? HA!

The bride and her dad. (30 years ago this Nov. he was marrying my best friend)

The attendants dresses were adorable! The bride....gorgeous!
We had a ball at the wedding.

The girls spent the night at grandma's. Abby enjoyed her curlers.

We spent a lot of the week and weekend in the pool.
We took it down tonight. What a job that was! Our yard got a good flooding.

The girl's and me celebrating my birthday.

After school on Friday, I took the girls for their first pedicure. I haven't had one myself in a while, so it was a treat for me too. (I have no pictures) They (I) loved it! It was so relaxing, and they loved the cute colors and jewels and polka dots and flowers that they got.

On Memorial Day, we picked the girls up, Phoebe had a friend over to swim, and I took off geocaching by myself. I had fun until the GPS batteries died. :o(

Came home and had one of my sisters and her husband over for a cookout, and plain ol' fun.

Back to school for Phoebe tomorrow. She's finally done on Thursday.
Abby has kindergarten screening tomorrow.
Perry works at home.
I probably need to catch up on laundry. (Does anyone really catch up?)

My cat, Pearl just batted a HUGE centipede off the wall and it ran off somewhere near me!!!
It better have found a hiding place! I'm all creepy crawly now. Shudder!

It was a very fun weekend, and the beautiful, hot weather was a plus.

Taking a minute

I'm taking a minute from my productive time to say I am on a cleaning purge.
Whoo hoo, it feels good to dump things.
Meaningless toys and other meaningless stuff.
Yes, even my stuff. Who needs it? Not me!

Clutter be gone!

Back to work, while I'm still in the mood.



One more thing.
I am out here reading your blogs.
I rejoice when you are happy.
I am sad when things go bad in your life.
I pray when you ask, and even if you don't ask.
I enjoy every photo that is displayed.
You are all very dear to me, and I'm glad I found you.

Last of the snail mail

Another contest win goody box came my way today. This one was a name that photo contest over at Joel's Journey. Cindy is a busy mom raising 12 children while missing her son Joel who died of a horrible cancer almost 3 years ago at the age of 3.

She sure packed this box up. I was shocked at all the loot.

from left to right: Thanksgiving cookie cutters, jar of leaf sprinkles for the cookies I will bake.
2 wooden Thanksgiving dolls to color. An Indian and a Pilgrim girl. ( the girls are coloring them now)
2 Joels Journey And The Sanctity Of Life videos. This video was the 2007 winner Best Biblical Family film at the San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival
1 video of Gardening Workshop for Beginners that they also filmed. I want a bigger garden next spring and I am a beginner. My brown thumb should turn a shade of green after watching this.
A lovely shade of burnt orange nail polish. Perfect for the fall season.
2 wooden (rectangle) pumpkins. so cute!
and behind the pumpkins is a neat metal acorn
and on the back of the couch is an awesome metal hanging decoration that reads F A L L

Very exciting past couple of weeks I've had receiving these wonderful gifts from my bloggy friends. I may never meet them this side of heaven, but I will catch up to them in heaven and give them the proper hugs.

All of you are so special to me.

More snail mail

Today I received another package in my mailbox from another bloggy friend. I won her giveaway for the month of September. Oh happy day.
This one was from April over at Straight from the Heart

A pretty little notebook with fold away pen. Great for my purse.

A magnetic notepad which will find it's way on the refrigerator. I've become a list maker lately and this will be perfect.

A hefty bookmark that says Everything is possible for him who believes. Mark 9:23
I say hefty because this is no paper or plastic bookmark. It is a beefy piece of metal. So cool!
It is now my protection when I'm reading. It may look like an innocent bookmark, but anyone who tries anything funny is going to get wholloped across the head with it. HA!

It's all so pretty and I thank you April for the fun surprises. I said this in my previous post. Bloggy friends are wonderful. I've picked the best blogs to follow.

Snail Mail is Great!

I won a giveaway!



Thank You, Thank You, Thank You! I Love It!

Bloggy Friends are Wonderful!

Fellowship: I need it

Tonight we had our life group meeting at our house. 12 of us from our church get together every 2 weeks and have a bible study of some sort.

Honestly, tonight I didn't care if anybody came or not. I wasn't crabby or anything, just didn't feel like connecting with some of these people.

We didn't have a specific study tonight, but we started watching the Left Behind movie, then discussed it a little. We'll finish the movie in 2 weeks. It truly was good fellowship.

After everyone left, I started reading some blogs, and felt truly blessed again. I felt a wonderful fellowship among believers.

I went to my bible and looked up fellowship and found this verse, and heard God talking to me loud and clear.
If we claim to have fellowship with Him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin. 1John 1:6-7. NIV

Earlier today, I was not walking in the light, as he is the light. You sure couldn't tell I had fellowship with the Lord by my attitude. I was walking in darkness, and the truth of the bible said I was living a lie. ugh.
Something about the word lie that gets to me. I don't want to be called a liar. I hate lying and liars. Ok I don't hate liars, just that they lie. So when the bible says I'm lying because I'm walking in darkness and claiming to have fellowship with Him...that gets to me, and I have to get rid of it.

And then with the fellowship of the life group I was able to walk in the light again. (after silently confessing my crappy attitude to God) I needed that fellowship, even though I thought I didn't want it, and I needed the words of some of the bloggers I visited tonight. Being reminded that the blood of Jesus purified me from all sin, because I chose to walk in the light again and have fellowship with other believers, is such a joy, and a much better feeling than the feeling I had when I was walking in darkness.

Fellowship has been and still is, such an important part of my walk with the Lord. And I cherish all the fellowship I have had over the years. I don't even need to be good friends with the people I fellowship with. It seems that if we belong to the body of Christ, then we have that common bond. We seem to "fit" in to each others lives, be it only for a quick chat, a season or a lifetime of being in each others lives.

When darkness comes in to our lives, it is so important to get in to fellowship with Christ, and other believers, so that darkness does not overtake us. Nobody even has to know it. (Unless you blog about it) Nobody knew tonight that I was walking in darkness, yet their fellowship drew me back in to the light. And for that I am thankful and grateful.

Fun Friday

What a wonderful, fun-filled Friday we had. To start the fun, Amanda ("Popp"ing out one Letter at a time) and her 4 kiddies came over to have lunch and spend the afternoon with us. She brought some Wildtree products with her to try out. YUM! And healthier for you too. Worth checking her site out. (I got some freebies from her, from a giveaway she had) :o)

The cutest kids on the block.

The girls played together great, and Amanda and I had great conversation. They are welcome to come over anytime. They arrived at 11 a.m. and left at 4:30 p.m. Abby wanted them to stay longer, but Phoebe and I had a date to go to the Green Bay Blizzard indoor arena football game.

My brother-in-law won a party for 16 to the game. It included our own private suite/with bathroom, and $500 worth of food and beverages. Food was excellent, the game was a blast to watch. The Blizzard won 60-20. Indoor football is different than outdoor. They only play on a 50 yard field, and a few rules are different. In between plays, different things happen. People come out and throw things to the audience. (t-shirts, bags of cheese curds, mini footballs) They had different contests too. Exciting fun entertainment.




Abigail had her fun too. My sister came over to watch her, but they headed out to the mall for supper and mall fun. Once home, they drew pictures together (Abby's on left..pic of Phoebe playing in leaves, Aunt B's on right, Phoebe and Abby in the pool) and when we got home after 11 p.m. Abby was still up and they were putting a puzzle together.

The girls finally went to bed around midnight and slept happily ever after. Well until 9:30 anyway.

Fun-filled Friday!

Weekend Update

What a fabulous 4th we had. Party at our house.

# of people - 36

# of brats grilled - 36

# of hamburgers grilled - 24

# of hot dogs grilled - 14

# of salads (different varieties) - 6

# of desserts (different varieties) - 6

# of food left over - not much

# of fireworks shot off in the driveway - didn't count, but it was a lot.

# of oohs and ahhs - many

# of injuries - none praise God

# of neighbors shooting off their own fireworks - many all around us

# of fun times - tons

# of pictures I took to showcase this event - ZERO
Can you believe it? I was so busy that I had no time to take 1 photo or video.

It was such a great time and the weather was wonderful.

Sunday night we watched a neighboring city's fireworks, then 3 of my family members came over after and we tore in to the leftovers from the party.

I love celebrating this holiday. But we are all so beat! The girls have been getting to bed so late, but they sleep in so it's not too bad. Phoebe told me she's ready to get back on her schedule. :o)

Today I catch up on laundry and try to get back to normal. Hope all of you had a great weekend too.

April showers bring May flowers

See that sweet little box of flowers with the happy little bug flying away, over to your right?

Miss Jill @ Sneakymomma designed that for me for being close to her 10,000 hits on her blog.


Isn't it sweet? It's so pretty and feminine and dainty and just plain sweet. All the things I am not.
But the button is my style.

Pick it if you want. I like to share my garden delights.

$50 giveaway

Nooooo, it's not me giving away a $50 gift card to Target or Amazon.com. I'm not that generous today. It's Sadie aka Sheryl over at The Perch. Or click Go Ask Sadie to get right to the giveaway. She's closing the contest at midnight (EST) tonight. Check her blogs out and maybe you'll win. Or maybe I'll win, because I'm getting extra chances to win by posting about this. Go....what are you still doing here? Nothing exciting going on at this blog!

Pay It Forward

Elaine is having a Pay It Forward contest on her blog, Matters of the Heart. Check it out. She just won a beautiful set of wine glasses from another blogs Pay It Forward. Whoever wins her contest agrees to Pay It Forward to someone else. Sound fun? Go enter. It's easy, just leave a comment on her blog.

Friday Flashback

Is it really Friday? I thought it was Saturday all day. Went to lunch and shopping with my high school friend. We don't get together as much as we should, so this was a nice treat. We had a great time. We went to Olive Garden, and they were out of the thing that she wanted, and out of the 2 things that I wanted. What's up with that? We got there at 11:30, so it's not like they were serving it all day. I ended up ordering some cheese filled ravioli with portabella mushrooms and strips of steak on it. It was sooo good. The steak was so tender I could cut it with a fork. I think I have a new favorite. Then we went to Hobby Lobby, to check out the after Christmas deals. Nothing grabbed me, except some Christmas stickers for my Christmas cards. Half off. I got 4 packs for under $3. Sale ends tomorrow, I may end up running there again to stock up on more varieties of stickers.

Here is Abby, 1 year ago, in January. We were getting ready to go sledding, and she just couldn't handle the waiting. She fell asleep on the penguin snow tube.

Christmas 2008 at Perry's moms house. Is that a flashback? crappy photo, taken with a phone. When will I learn to bring a normal camera along with me?

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Hope your 2009 is fine. God bless all of you and God knows how much you all have blessed me. Stay safe, be healthy. You will all be in my prayers. I am looking forward to a great year of blogging with you.