So Thankful!

Last week was tough!

It was the week that our homeschool

co-op started back up...
without us! (Gasp!)

It was a week of self pity

for friendships "lost" and a change

in our daily routine around here.

I love teaching.

I miss teaching my children and others.

However, I am moving into a new stage

in life and unfortunately I am not always

headed there gracefully.

Add hot flashes and cyst pain to the mix

and it would be no wonder if all my friends 

ran for the hills.

However, that is not what happened.

One friend "Facebooked" that we should 

go out for dinner next week...YES!
Our friend, Melissa, joined us for
coffee night at Starbucks....

Another blessed me through a facebook

chat....One who lives in a faraway state is 

coming into town and has asked if we can get together.

Two at church asked yesterday about us getting 

together....
God blessed me with an afternoon
and part of an evening with my friend,
Kelly, whom I have dearly missed
as our time together has been scarce.

Ummmm....and I was mourning friends?

What a dolt I am!!

Well, certainly there are some that I just won't

have opportunity to see weekly as I was 

used to....but I am certainly not without friends.

God has blessed me, richly, with a boatload 

of dear women in my life.

I count you among them, 

unless of course you happen to be 

my Uncle Chuck or husband, Warren....

perhaps my son, Jonathan.  

Those are the men I know read here.....

I wouldn't call you women.

LOL

I would count you among my friends

though, Uncle, Son and Hubby.

It is tempting to see these times of change

as the enemy....

but I hope to find this time as one of 

stretching and learning new things.

Cultivating deeper friendships.