HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!  I hope and pray everyone felt special and loved in some way today.  I just wanted to share how blessed I was.  I don’t ever get to go out to eat during the week since I homeschool my daughter and 2 grandsons.  Well, today I was able to take my daughter, Leslie, out for lunch to a nice sandwich shop and she drove me there.  Was nice and quiet.  I was already blessed by the opportunity to eat alone with her but we were doubly blessed when she went up to pay and they told her it was on the house.  I was surprised and thankful so told them so.  They just said they appreciated what our family does for our comunity and that was their way of saying   thanks to us.  So sweet (embarrassing too).  Sure teaches or reinforces to Leslie what it feels like to have a good name in a community.  We then went down the street where I had pre-ordered her valentine gift……chocolate covered strawberries that are to die for.  She requests them every year.  When I got home, all the kids and I gave a try at making chocolate roses from a recipe I found.  To my amazement, this non-creative, non-candy making blind girl made one by herself.  Leslie said it looked just like the picture.  I was blessed to accomplish something new on my first try.  Hidden talent?  LOL.  I was also given 2 already paid tickets to a pancake feed for Sat. that was a fundraiser and gave them to a couple of guys at the dinner tonight who couldn’t afford them.  Pass your blessings.  I also was blessed last night listening to our middle child, Jennifer, teach on the 5 love languages to the ladies of our church.  Then, of course, I feel blessed every day to be married to Steve and to live in America.  May you be blessed in the little things as well as the big.

Jena