Since I didn’t get to go with my husband to Arizona this year we planned this little get away to make up for some much needed time alone.  Today we walked on the beach holding hands and crushing shells with our shoes.  I learned something new about my hubbie today.  He likes to step on shells and crush them like I do.  There is something very rewarding about the "crunch" heard underfoot.

So while we’ve napped, eaten well, napped some more and thoroughly enjoyed this time together we will be so excited to see our kids again. 

Reminds me…."For everything there is a season…"

So, what do you think??

Baby girl fell out of the bed of my husband’s truck today.  She landed on her head on the asphalt of a parking lot.  It scared my husband so badly.  He was certain to pick up her and find blood everywhere. 

I believe the fall scared her more than anything.  She was playing with her brother in the back of the truck and just lost her balance and over she went. 

My husband gathered the kids he had with him and immediately prayed for baby girl.  There was no blood and no visible signs of damage.  When I got home I checked her over well myself and there isn’t even a scratch or a place where the skin is broken, no knots on her head, no nothing.  "Nothing hurts, mamma" and she’s as peppy as ever.

Here are a few pictures from today…

My favorite parts of Baby Girl

Five year old son:  "Mom, wouldn’t it be cool if you farted and the house blew up?"
Me: (not wanting to encourage such lude talk!!)  "Well, no, because then we wouldn’t have anywhere to live."
Five year old son:  "Well, we could just go live at Kalie’s house."

Kalie is a friend of his who is also five.  They go to school together and were born just a couple weeks apart.

Hope so.

Tuesday my husband flew from AZ to Detroit and then back home.  As many of you know the northeast had near blizzard conditions  on Tuesday and Wednesday.  God had me and the kids praying for his safety most of the day.  It wasn’t a pressing urgent prayer just a reminder that he was traveling in bad weather.

They arrived in Detroit okay but it was snowing a lot.  After a short layover they got on the departing flight and the ground crew set about de-icing the plane.  As they were waiting in line to take off a passenger sitting over the wing noticed there was ice on the wing flaps of the airplane.  They were third in line for take-off.  He rang the call button for the flight attendant.  She got the pilot.  The pilot came back into the passenger section of the plane with a flashlight and looked out the window where the passenger was sitting.  Sure enough the maintenance crew had missed a spot and there was ice on the wing.

Praise God for a pilot with lots of good sense.  He pulled out of line for takeoff and returned to the terminal for another round of deicing. 

What would have happened had that particular passenger would not have been sitting on the wing?
What if he had thought the ice was normal?
What if the pilot had not paid attention to the passengers concern?
I wonder if that man knows he very well may have saved the lives of everyone on board?

The delay caused my husband to be over an hour and a half late arriving home.  Just as a very bad band of weather causing Tornado Watches moved out of our area. 

Luck?  Circumstance?
I beg not!

God had HIS all encompassing hand over my husband and the lives of many others on Tuesday.

And whoever that man is who sat on the wing of the plane and the pilot who took the time to de-ice again…."May God richly bless your lives and may your heart forever follow after HIM."

This, from one very grateful wife and 4 children who adore their dad.
Julie