sometimes causes me to forget. I have a couple relatives in my life who try to sleep past 5-6AM each morning, and I respect that. I know that when the phone receives a message, it will ding. Why don't we turn our phone off? Because it might be one of our children, an emergency with someone, or well, it could be anything. My 'dings' during the night can be Kohl's, JCP's, Michael's or JoAnn's. Truly! Rarely is it anyone - unless they send a text around 9:30PM. Rarely do I get a text early in the morning, like after I'm up. I take that back. I do have a few as they know I'm up; and LOL, yesterday it was my boss telling me Happy Easter, about 5AM. And that was ok. She knew I was up. She is also an early riser. So where am I going with all this? Unless I pause (sometimes) in here, before I come out, and send a special text to someone... sometimes I forget. I get busy with my day and I just forget to send it. I realized this morning I forgot to send my middle child and his wife a 'Happy Easter;. I know they probably don't care that I didn't.... I didn't forget them at all; I just didn't want to send a note early in the morning and then after that, it was church, grabbing things and heading over to daughter's for lunch, clean up, etc. and when we got back home, I got busy with other things. I respect they prefer messages after they get up - and I know when one works, or can't sleep well, if they can grab a few minutes extra of sleep, it is priceless. So, with that, Happy Easter to my middle child.... cause I thought of you... but didn't want to wake you nor your wife, and then life just got busy. I love you - and Happy Easter - belatedly.
In fact, I wanted to sleep in this morning. Hubby woke me at 2:43am with his tossing and turning - and when he stopped, he face was right in front of mine. WAAYAYYAYAY too close! So I flipped over on my other side and tried to go back to sleep, but finally got up and came in here - where I did fall back to sleep for a couple hours. Until I heard hubby shuffling down the hallway, anyway. Some days I want to sleep a little later too. Without interruption. I know if we slept in separate beds we both would sleep better. But, hubby will not 'allow' it. His flip flopping keeps me awake many a night... yet, he claims I can keep him awake with my snoring. He always has a comment about 'me'. Oh well, enough of that.
Church ran long yesterday but it was good. I heard our old church had the wife of the pastor speak and that she was awesome. Our church had an impromptu baptism what started out as 3 people and ended up as 5. A father got to baptize his two daughters; another father got to baptize his son. His son was in the band, and he came down and asked if he could also get baptized (his father baptized him) and then a woman on the worship team wanted to be baptized. They also had about 8 young women dressed in white who did a 2-minute or so dance routine. Worship was good, message was good. I wish I could remember the four points made - but it all was based on Matthew 28. Great service. And my youngest son and his wife did attend with us. I told them after that our services didn't usually run that long. Grateful they came. Love having my children attend church with me.
The rest of the day was good too - a great lunch; fun watching one of the great granddaughters hunt for Easter eggs; spending quality time with a granddaughter listening to her plans to expand and grow her little business. Ms. Amy kept calling me and so did another friend. I finally got my phone on the second call from Ms. Amy. She was a little irritated I hadn't answered her call earlier... she just wanted to know if a couple had come over to look at her fruit trees to get an estimate on cutting them back for her. I don't know if they came or not... I did see a couple guys get out of a truck in front of her house Saturday... assume that was who it was. She will get their quote today; she didn't need to call me. Oh well. Then another friend called the second time so I called him back.. he didn't really want anything either. Overall, it was a good day... hubby fell asleep in his chair last night and I woke him when it was time to go to bed.
Back to work this Monday morning and I know I have two meetings today, but nothing 'bad'. The first one at 8AM is my monthly 1:1 with my boss. LOL we talk frequently 'off the record' and meet up once a month or so for breakfast (we are meeting next week for lunch!) so it isn't like we don't chat. Then she has a 'direct report' meeting around 12:30PM I think that I get invited to - so that I can hear what is going on within the different departments she is over. Other than that, sigh, I have about 18 'compliance required training' in my mail bucket that I have to go in and complete before a date in July. Everyone dreads those - they are time consuming, but if you don't complete them, you get reported to Compliance who has to report it to the IRR, I think it is, and it can and usually does, cost the job. It's easier just to do them and get it over with. Which is what I usually do. They dropped in our mail two weeks ago and I got one or two of them done - before Compliance pulled them out; they had sent out too early. We aren't to start on them until today.
Romans 5:6-8 (NIV): "You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us."
I think that scripture pretty well sums up Easter, don't you think? "While we were still sinners, Christ died for us." What a powerful statement that is! We don't have to be perfect people, we don't have to powerful people. Jesus loves us right where we are at. He died for me (and for you) before we were even created. And He rose to life again, defeating death, that we also might live again with Him. No other 'god' has risen again. Never put a 'little god' before our Great and Mighty God. He is our great Defender, our Redeemer, our Friend.
Oh - in my "Betty Crocker" time on Saturday, I forgot to tell you one thing that I made! I made butter! LOL I don't know what got in to me to want to do it... remembering my 'Aunt Margarine' and the one time we churned butter (in the large wooden butter churn) might have done it. But I had bought this glass container from Amazon; it has a lid on it, to which is attached paddles. You pour heavy whipping cream into it and start 'churning' - turning the gadget... for about 20 minutes... and you look inside and you see butter! You pull the butter out, soak it in ice water to firm it up and get the rest of the milk out of it. The remaining milk in the container is buttermilk and they say to use it in buttermilk pancakes. I threw it away cause I knew I wasn't going to make any. Anyway - I made unsalted butter. I could add salt; I can add herbs or other seasonings to it; I could add cinnamon and sugar to it. I could do all those things. But I made butter. And it brought back to mind special memories of good times.
What is something you could do today that would bring back special memories? Maybe it's baking cookies. Maybe it is writing a note to someone who means something to you. Maybe it is taking someone out for coffee and just chat about fun times with them. Take some time today to do something fun and brings joy.
Blessings!
