True that.   We are living these words as I write.  In other rooms suitcases are being filled and anticipation is high as we prepare for our trip to Ohio.  As luck would have it Allen got scheduled for a work function the week after my birthday.  My present?  The children and are riding along and visiting with Rebecca and family.  Hopefully we won't try their patience too terribly much!  (She is a saint…she is a saint!) 

I want to thank you all from the bottom of my heart for the sweet notes you have left here in the past week.  Between trip prep, computer mishaps, and a traveling husband I have missed some of the notes initially or was unable to track down addresses or whatnot.  So I am doing what I so prefer not to do and sending my gratitude impersonally.  Forgive me!  Please know your letters are dear to me and keep me going when the candle is burning on both ends as it has been this month. They also take me on delightful rabbit trails when you leave your own url's for me to follow. : ) 

I have had a few neat things to share over the past months so I set them up to run next week.  It is possible I will be able to check in once or twice from the gyspy computer.  I promise to catch up properly when we return.