Something I forgot...

I spent two hours on the phone yesterday with two of my favorite people...my sister Ann, and my mother-in-law Carol. (No wonder I was up late.) There's nothing like true godly fellowship, I can't ever get enough of it. If you want to talk about the Lord and applying the Bible to life, than I'm yours until I drop. What an encouraging evening it was! I love my MIL, I have the best one ever, hands down, no disputing. She's my Mom to me, the godliest example I know, and loves the Lord, me without condition, and is cheerful, self-sacrificing, and able to look at life objectively, which encourages me. I would love to be less subjective. Much less.
Ann I can usually spend hours on the phone with. My only sister (we have an older brother, who's married to the sweetest, funniest sis-in-law ever, who has a great blog of her own) is a God-sent blessing.
I MUST go. I have no idea what my house looks like downstairs after having written this epistle.

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