A Great Week...

Mom and I are enjoying a great week. Sean blogged about our trip to Tiwaeno. I was so blessed to get to do that! I can't believe we've been here for over a year and I just barely got to see what my husband does every day. I hadn't been in a small plane for over two years either - since I grew up going in small planes with my Daddy, going for an airplane ride has a very homey feel to it...I forgot how much fun it is! I can't quite find the words to describe how I felt or how grateful I was to have the experience - and to share it with my mom and children too! Overwhelmingly wonderful. That's all there is to it.

On a much less profound level - I'm just thrilled that Mom and I were able to finish making curtains for our living room, guest room, dining room and kitchen. Mom did most of the sewing and it all looks so good. I did a few of the smaller curtains and had fun with it - maybe I'm not so terrible after all. Mom and I did fight my sewing machine a little bit - it does some weird things every once in a while and we never really were able to figure out what caused the problems. Sometimes it just gets frisky and mischievous, I guess. I was a little glad to discover that the problems I've had with that machine haven't all been because of me....although there is a very great possibility that I created the problems to begin with....

At any rate, the week is going by far too quickly but I'm treasuring the time spent just being with my momma. I have fabulous memories of a trip to the jungle with my sweet mother (did she not look precious in those pictures on Sean's blog?) and I have curtains hanging all over my house that will always remind me of our special week. Little things like that are BIG to me.

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