A chance to breathe on a Thursday evening, what??

I got lots of things accomplished this week, and now I have a chance to breathe.  We had Lenten service at Fillmore last evening and the choir sang, so afterward we had practice instead of this evening.  My exercise class after work today was also cancelled since the instructor is away, so this feels like an absolutely leisurely Thursday evening compared to normal.

I also finished up our income tax stuff this week and have that ready for our tax man.  And I got a new song ready for our praise team at Houserville - Lord, I Need You.  Yes, I know I mentioned that song several weeks ago, but at that point I had just gotten it arranged in my computer composer program.  After I do that I print it out in the right key and format for each musician on the team, make personal markings in each, etc.  It's a time consuming process, but I love it.

Dick had a root canal done today with several more to go.  I need to make an appointment for myself and dread hearing the verdict.  I floss religiously every single day, but I know there's at least one problem area.  A thousand dollar's worth of dental insurance per person per year doesn't begin to make a dent these days.  I'm trying not to let it overwhelm me.

I babysat Austin on Tuesday evening.  He was taking his bath and playing with his Star Wars "people," giving me an education about who the bad guys and the good guys are.

This boy's head is filled with numbers - big numbers.  Later during his bath he was "writing" a bunch of 9's on the tile with his wet finger as he was slowly and deliberately saying, "Ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred ninety-nine."  Then he asked,  "What number comes next?"  Without thinking very hard I said, "A million?"  And he said, "No!  What comes after ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred ninety-nine?"  I had listened more closely that time and answered, "One hundred thousand!"  And just like a teacher he said, "Right!"   Last evening Anthony posted a number that Austin had come up with - five thousand, four hundred infinity, hahaha!!

Here's another funny one from the weekend.  He was very tired and extremely upset over something that Anthony and Lori were holding firm about - a line he had crossed after having been warned a few times.  He was sobbing and declaring,  "I will never get what I want. Not even when I'm 41, because I might live in your house and you'll still be in charge."   And then he warned them, "I'm going to wake up at 6:31 tomorrow."  I just cracked up at his choice of numbers!

And now I want to share my Throwback Thursday pictures for this week.  Here are our parents' wedding pictures.

First my parents, Paul and Mabel (Myers) Witmer on October 2, 1943. It was also my mother's 20th  birthday. 

Dick's parents, Howard and Ruth (Brubaker) Stauffer, October 2, 1948.

They celebrated their anniversaries together at our wedding on October 2, 1971.  

Unfortunately, by 1983 Dick and I were the only ones celebrating that date, since both of our mothers died from cancer in their fifties, just a year apart.  

I shared these pictures on FB today.  One of my cousins, whose dad is one of my mom's younger brothers, made an interesting comment.  She said she showed her dad the picture of my parents' wedding, and he remembered that they went to the Pocono Mountains on their honeymoon and when they came back they gave him a Milky Way bar - his first one ever!  I think he would have been about 8 years old at the time.  That must have been a really good piece of candy for him to remember it all these years later!

Most of our snow is now gone.  But guess what is in our forecast for tomorrow?  Several inches of snow!  Oh well, it won't stay around for long.  I have green shoots coming up in my flower beds and I'm so excited to think of flowers!!  We took all the greens and lights down the other weekend, so it's time for some color out there!!