Blessings Are All Around Us!

Today I came across a solution to a nagging problem. Kate is still in her crib because she is so small. She is growing and will be ready for a "big girl bed". Sometimes she wakes in the night, as if she took a nap! Wide awake and ready for her day! Only it is 3:00 a.m. and we are certainly not ready. She is safe in her crib and does not climb out. Now that we need to get her a big girl bed, I have been secretly panicking. Coming across this website was a Blessing! The company is not too far away and there is a payment plan. This safety bed can also travel on vacation!

I love new technology. It took another Special Needs Mom to invent this! Leave it to a mom that has determination to keep her child safe!

Easter was yesterday and we had 15 for dinner. Dinner was so good and I was only ten minutes late getting it on the table. It's a new record! We celebrated Angel coming into the Church and also her birthday. Angel's family came over and we all had a great time. My brother brought his friend Nicole, who couldn't be lovelier! Kate did great!!!

I wanted to sleep in, but the girls worked so hard with me yesterday, I couldn't wake them. So with Kate awake it was a cuddling, donut morning. Will Kate want to sleep in when she is a teenager? Will I ever sleep past 8:00 a.m. again!???

So the blessings are a new bed for Kate. A new beginning for Angel. I new beginning for my brother and all the people who love us sharing in all the beauty of our little home.

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