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My Easter weekend was wonderful and I hope everyone else's was, too!

My inlaws came over yesterday. My BIL and FIL helped with some things on my "honey-do" list. The garage now has new shelves and several decor projects were taken care of, too. I will be finishing several others up this week, too.

My inlaws brought gifts for the kids for Easter, as well as some things they had bought for all of us when they were on a recent cruise. I got a beautiful bracelet and necklace set.

Church today was amazing! There was a play to celebrate the Lord's death and resurrection. It was very inspiring and we enjoyed it alot.

D17 and her friend are still struggling with the death of their friends from the fall. One young man's 18th birthday would have been today and the girls took an altar call for prayer to God's wisdom and strength to help them over come their sadness. I also prayed with an older male member of the church for DH and homecoming this coming weekend.

My niece got engaged this weekend and we are all scrambling to plan a wedding for a month from now. The young man is her HS BF and the father of my great-nephew. They have been off and on for the past few months and finally realized that they want to be together forever. He is also military and will be coming up on orders soon. They do not want to be separated due to the military and his obligations. I am thrilled for them! I have always hoped they would work things out, not only for my great-nephew, but also because they do love each other very much. They both needed to grow up alot and I have seen that growth happen over the past year.

I need to email DH about their engagement. I did send him an email card to wish him a Happy Easter with a note attached telling him that the kids (and of course unsaid but by extension, me) could not wait to re-celebrate all of the missed holidays with him when he gets home. I closed it with "We miss you and love you." I signed all of the kids' names and added my own to the end. Of course, I did not hear back from him and I did not expect to. I did receive a confirmation email from the card site that the card was read early this morning.

Less than a week to homecoming. I am excited and hopeful, but have no expectations. Well, not true. I expect him to do what I have already been told that he would do--stay here for a few days of his leave period. Anything other than that will be a gift from the Lord. I know that the kids want to ask him to go to a church picnic and kite-flying for the weekend after he returns. His initial plans were to not be here, based on an email he sent me. Let him tell the kids if he is not coming. I will not stand in his way or the Lord's. Anything is possible and I am believing in the Lord's ability to create miracles where no hope exists.

Please keep us all in your prayers this week as homecoming approaches day by day. The kids are antsy and I am fighting with my patience daily. I want the house to be perfect and with four kids, I often feel like I am fighting a losing battle. It will all work out, in the end.

Living God's blessings with grace and dignity~
SMW