Thank you for the love and support.

Life is full of many moments. Some moments are wonderful and others not so much. When I began this blog I was struggling with making tough decisions. How do I go back to work without disrupting our home life? Where do we live to make sure we are all eating dinners together? These decisions would bring on change and consequences. Some of the changes would bring fun happy moments and others would bring on heartache. (The moving and selling of the house has been filled with pain and sadness.) My friends and my family have kept me positive and focused. Happiness has come through my writing, volunteer work at school and family dinners. Work has brought happy surprises, because I have met many kind and loving friends. Overall I feel so loved by everyone around me. I am extremely blessed. The bonus is that I have you, the reader, supporting and reading my posts. Some of you have shared my blog with others and that brings more love to this blog. I am very thankful for the love and kindness you have shown me. It doesn’t go unnoticed. I hope that you know just how much I appreciate the love and support.

Corinthians 13:4-7

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

**While having lunch with my family, I found a chive in the shape of a heart next to the seaweed.**

Field Trip Mom

May you always find love in everything, in everyone and all that you do.

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Admin said…

You are one amazing person Alma!! You are always so supportive of everyone too!! You are truly a gem!!

Ps. I love your new blog design. It is gorgeous

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State Testing and a letter of encouragement

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