• Now we know, and I am so glad its over.  I am so glad God knew before it even started.
• Very interesting news story on our local news site this morning about tire safety and the age of tires even when they are sold as “new” – check it out:  Cracking the Code on the Age of Your Tires
• G climbed into bed with us in the middle of the night a couple of times.  The second time, around 4am, the says to me, “Mommy?”  I replied sleepily, “Yea?”  G says,”I’m sad.” 
• I wasn’t quite sure what to do with that – he’s never said that before.  I reassured him he was with mommy and daddy, he was ok, and let’s go to sleep now. 
• My friend Jess pointed me to another fun website – a free internet radio where you type in a favorite song or artist and it customizes your radio station for you!  Very cool.  Its called Pandora Radio. 
• I had way too much fun with Pandora yesterday.  And it was right on with all the song selections, too.
• I am going to a women’s retreat hosted by our church this weekend.  I am beyond excited. 
• Leslie Nease, of Survivor China, will be our speaker. 
• I am playing keyboard for the worship portions of the retreat – I am super-excited about that!!  That is my passion.
• We had some neat blessings this week around the house – literally.  Our icemaker broke over the weekend.  On Tuesday, I called the appliance repair folks to come out and fix it.  Tuesday night our garbage disposal quit working – buzzed then died.  You know how that always happens.    By Wednesday we were looking at some hefty kitchen repairs.  The repairman arrives on Wednesday and fixes the icemaker to the tune of $220 (ouch!) then as he was putting the old icemaker in the sink to get ice out, I told him to use the other side as that side would fill up, the garbage disposal was broken.  He says, “Did you hit the reset button?”  Me – quizzical look.  He says, “Do you still have the special tool for it?”  Me – another quizzical look.  He smiled and said he had an extra one.  He took a few minutes and worked on it.  Determined we had a small metal piece stuck in the blades that my husband could get out.  And he left the special tool with me!! 
• So I got a new icemaker with ice made of gold apparently, and the news that garbage disposal wasn’t garbage!  Cool timing, eh? 
• By the way, Chris fixed the garbage disposal last night.  Indeed, there was a small metal object stuck in there.  We have no idea what it was.  It was a…small, metal thing.
• I’m going to go enjoy a nice glass of gold icewater now and listen to Pandora.

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