A little belated...Happy Anniversary to Us!!!

It has been crazy-busy around here the past few weeks.  My brother-in-law's aunt had been having some issues - she went in for an MRI of the brain at 8:30 one morning. By 9:30 the same morning, she was told she had brain cancer.  She saw a neurosurgeon 48 hours later and learned she had stage 4 glioblastoma - what the radiologist had thought was two tumors was actually one very aggressively growing tumor.  Within 48 hours of seeing the neurosurgeon, she was having brain surgery.  Since she is our business office manager, everything on the admin side of the office was in a total uproar (and really, it still is).  Then my Nana died - so I had family/funeral stuff. Brad and I were in charge of some stuff for our church Missions Conference that ate up my schedule (exhausting but so wonderful!).  And then there was the (blessed) end of the basketball season.

So...in the middle of all that was my 20th wedding anniversary!  Brad, Elizabeth and Nin went to the store on March 2 to pick up some stuff  (and honestly, I can't remember what they had to buy but it was some grocery-something) - I didn't think anything about it.  I woke up the morning of March 3, walked into the family room and there on the dining room table was a dozen white roses and a card.  Oh. What a surprise!!  Nin was right behind me, beaming.  She said, "Mommy, are you proud of me? I kept your roses a secret!! Do you love them?!"  Sweet girl. She was so excited for me - and excited that she'd kept the secret for her daddy.

What was really funny was about three hours later as I was getting everything ready for lunch, Nin says, "Daddy is coming home early and taking us to lunch at that place you ate when you got married."  Say what?!  So I called him, "Are you coming home early and taking us to lunch?" (translation: do I need to go get in the shower right now?)   As it turns out, no, we weren't going to lunch - we were going to dinner.  Phew.  So, we had dinner, took the kids to AWANA, then we went to WalMart. Whooo-hooo! :)  Seriously, though, a happy day.