"Live from sunny north Georgia, via blogger city, it's open line FFFFriday!!" Okay, only Rush Limbaugh fans will get that. Yes, it's Friday, another week has passed, and tommorow my mother will be here!!! I am so excited for her to come, she hasn't seen Grace yet, and she hasn't seen George since last June. She saw Ian in November when Nate and I took him up to Maine. I am really praying that she gets on her flights in good time and doesn't have to wait too long in Boston. Not that she minds, but I am just anxious for her to get here. Now I just need to get the boys room cleaned up so she can actually stay in there. George is gong to sleep in the travel crib in our room, and my mom's going to stay in the big bed in the boys room with Ian. It sure will be nice when we have more space, and actually have a guest room. It's exciting to think of that all being done, and possibly this year. The boys clothes are all over the bed in their room, and I really should be putting them away right now, actually, but this is the last chance I will have to post anything probably for a week or more, so I just wanted to avail myself of the opportunity.

I had a good talk with Nathan last night, and set up the opportunity for us to talk further tonight. In church on Sunday, the pastor was preaching out of I Corinthians 13, and urged us to go to our spouses and have them honestly tell us which areas from the passage we are falling short in. I asked Nate about it last night, and asked him to read it and think about it, and I think we will talk more about it hopefully tonight. If I can get the bathroom cleaned during naptime, and a few loads of laundry done, then I will have time to talk with him tonight. Really, I always have time to talk to him. I wish he wanted to talk more often, although we do converse much more readily than we ever used to. I'm not talking about deep, serious topic conversations, I'm just talking about any exchange of words. Him telling me about his day, and what's going on in his life, just the day to day stuff. Sometimes by the end of the day, he's just done conversing and would rather just be on ebay or playing a computer game than talk. It's fine that he needs some veg out time, but I just love it when we do take the time to talk with each other, and I can tell that it helps him to talk things out, he gets less stressed about things. Speaking of being stressed about things, his assistant manager in the Douglasville store quit yesterday. He had delegated quite a bit of his old responsiblities to her, advertising and marketing and things like that, and now he's going to end up having to do it again. He's been working so hard on this new computer system and redoing their inventory files. He's leaving Monday for a four day training in Memphis, and he's taking a laptop with him so he can work on things there, too. I guess that's good. He's staying at a casino, that's where the convention/training seminar is, and I suppose I'd rather him be working than gambling! :P Not that my skinflint level headed husband would ever gamble. I do worry about him going away, though. His brother and another man from the company will be with him, they're all staying in the same room, so I guess they will keep each other out of trouble. I just have to remember that the Lord wants to protect him from evil and harm even more than I do. I just love him so much.

Well, I've got to go feed Gracie and get the boys ready for a nap. I hope anyone who reads this will be aware of God's blessings and presence in their lives today, and enjoying the peace that comes from seeking the Lord. I endeavor to seek His face and His will. The desire to be saturated with Him and His word grows stronger in me daily, not because of my own efforts or will, but because the Lord pursues me. I will write more about that later. It is so amazing to me how He seeks me out and brings His lost sheep back into the fold. I just love Him so much.