First Things First

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Thank you for all of your prayers. They are mightily appreciated. My back is still "broken" and I am not yet seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. Hopefully by the weekend. This little episode has been my pre-Lent penance. You know those days when you have endless laundry in sight, the toilets are dirty, and the kids seemingly leave a disaster in every room they visit (I know, I know -- that's every day)? Well, if you can physically do the laundry, clean the toilet, and help clean up the mess, thank God today. Right now I would trade my spot on the sofa for 30 loads of laundry (Oh, wait. There might actually be 30 loads of laundry for me). I'm not havin' a pity party, just sayin' count your blessings.


Anyway, I am posting pictures of my little Peach today since you had to miss her 7th birthday yesterday. Thank you for the birthday wishes, however. She was a happy little girl all day (except for that one little episode over a math lesson), and she was delighted to have both her birthday and the opportunity to help mommy bake her cake (and make lunch). She's a good little helper girl and always drops whatever she's doing when I need her.

Here she is modeling the Kit hat. I opted to decorate the hat with ribbon and bow instead of crocheting in the color. She has a selection of ribbon colors from which to choose and her Kit hat can match most of her outfits (I don't know why we didn't switch out the green ribbon for the pink in this picture).

And here she is with her birthday cake. I was able to throw together a cake that looked almost the way she wanted. I could not do icing roses, but I could roll out some fruit snacks and cut up cherries. She was happy with all of it and I was happy that her choice for birthday dinner was grilled hot dogs and oven-baked onion rings!

(And the reason this post is titled First Things First is because I will get to those black tie dinner pictures, but not today.)

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