15 May 2013

Happy things this week:
**A surprise trip from Dan! Loved that we got to spend the weekend with him and proud of his acceptance to U of H Optometry School!
**Making new friends! Fun to have other visitors this weekend, as well! We didn't know them before, but now they feel like family!
**Wildflowers on the TX roadsides, esp. bluebonnets on the way to Dallas and all the colorful ones on the way t...o Magnolia!
**Rachel accepted into KHS National Honor Society.
**Great final meeting with our youth conference committee. Glad to put that baby to bed!
**Great ladies of the Klein Ward Relief Society. Thanks for the spirit you broght to the lesson Sunday.
**A new haircut. I think that's a happy thing. Still deciding...

4 April 2013

Happy thoughts for the week:
**Texas thunderstorms
**Texas thunderstorms that wait until AFTER youth conference!
**Youth Conference!
**The bright green color of new leaves
**One of my piano students thinks I'm 35.
**Grad school aps are in and responses are coming back!
**Unscheduled trips to Dallas

22 March 2013

Bright spots are piling up. I'm not to busy to notice them; just too busy to write them on FB!

**Klein Ward Choir

**Smelling like Jeff hours after he went to work b/c he kissed me up so well before he left!

**Windows sparkling clean, inside and out, all over the house!

**Devoted elders serving in our ward who capably taught our friend in our home.

**Nocturne Night - an evening of Chopin at the Hulmes' home, salon-style
**Chatty phone calls from my kids.
**Ladies I visit teach who've become my friends.
**Houston Temple has reopened.
**Bi-colored roses in the esplinade at the corner of Spring Cypress and Champion Forest
**Offers of help with youth conference from kind souls
**Listening to the Rosenlund girls sing together
**Checking things off my to-do list
**Discovering a new Rachmaninoff piece to love
**The Lord helping me widen my band width despite my desires to the contrary.
**Performing with talented musicians and being on the same wavelength, allowing us to produce beautiful music together with no practice and no stress. Ahh!

And just so y'all don't think I'm Pollyanna, here are a few dim bulbs to my week:
**A spider in my shower so big that when I covered it up with the cup to keep it contained until Jeff could deal with it, it's legs stuck out the edges!
**Nights with less than four hours of sleep
**Both Jeff and I forgot to write to Elder Scotty this week. :(
**Some people don't follow thru with what they say they'll do.
**A funeral for a four year old angel-girl.

9 March 2013

More bright spots--just because the world is a wonderful place:

**Fresh, juicy grapefruit from my neighbor's tree

**"To dream the impossible dream..." Access to the arts is great in Houston!

**Talking about Alan Ladd in the grocery store line with the elderly gentleman that seemed to run into me all over HEB. Texas folk are so friendly!

**Popcorn popping on the trees all over Spring, TX.

**Spring Break has begun. Time to get some serious work done on youth conference and to get this house CLEAN!