Snap

Well, last night the internet would not cooperate - my pictures would not load. So, while I was waiting, quite impatiently, I started reading a book....

 I read, and read and read. I think I started the book around 10:30. I finished it around 3:30. 

 I still got 4 hours of sleep - not bad for a grumpy start to a night. 

 The pictures never loaded, but I seem to have gotten over my bad mood. 

 Here is the post I had written pre-book, and here are the pictures, now that they finally decided to load. 

I have been in a funk today. 

 My husband is deployed and I miss him, DREADFULLY. 

 My daughter is still miles and miles away, months and months away, stacks and stacks of paperwork away. And she doesn't know that I love her. 

 My kids have been up late several times this week, and thus slightly grumpy themselves. 

 My blood sugars are out of whack, even though I take plenty of insulin, and that annoys me.

 I have gained three pounds over the last few weeks, and that just stinks. 

 Even with those three pounds yelling at me, the only thing I really want to eat is chocolate.  But I have severely limited myself. 

 The limiting of chocolate sure didn't help the funk any. 

 My friend Carrie came over and kept me from being depressed for awhile this afternoon. I think she may have saved my sanity. 

 Then my daddy took me to Home Depot and bought me a hoe, some fresh cover soil and cucumber and carrot seeds. 

 I have a project to look forward to. 

 But first, tomorrow has to come. I have to survive tonight, and my empty bed which seems so very very lonely.  

 

 Praise God, I have a forgiving savior. He forgives my repeat performances of forgetting, again and again, that HE is enough. And always, always, He reminds me of the beautiful pieces of joy that He has put in my life to hold me over. 

 Let me show you just a few of those beautiful pieces of joy that hold me over.  

Papaw and his boys.

Zion and his Noni, searching for eggs.

Canaan took this picture - didn't he do fabulous!

How cool is that? 

I just love this picture!

This one too! 

 My children are blessed with such wonderful friends,

and I am blessed with wonderful mothers of those friends...