Surprise, Mom

One of the reasons I love children is the fact that they are full of surprises. Look what I found on my camera this morning..SURPRISE!!

A few photos of Karissa's hamster named Peanut...AKA..Nutser.

He rides this wheel

A Lot

Isn't he just darling...especially for the rodent variety.

Oh boy..thanks Karissa for the photo shoot.

Like I said, I love children because they are full of surprises. This is a photo of another surprise. Before Christmas my girls and I went shopping together. We went into a store that had this framed quote. I fell in love with it and considered buying it. The girls told me they would buy it for me for Christmas, but I told them I didn't want them to spend that much. I told them that maybe I could stitch it someday(we all know about "Someday").  Unbeknownst to me, Rebecca took a photo of it, and then carefully 

stitched it while I wasn't looking.

When I opened it Christmas morning, I cried. What a tender surprise for me.

It says:  "There are no seperate paths back to that Heavenly Home. Just one straight and narrow way, at the end of which, though we arrive trailing tears, we shall at once be DRENCHED IN JOY."

                                                          -----Neal A. Maxwell
DRENCHED in joy is my favorite part. Think of the word drenched. It means soaked, soaked and more soaked. I love the thought of being drenched in joy(at once)... if I stay on that straight and narrow path here on earth.

I hope your day is full of pleasant surprises, and that you think about being drenched in joy as you go about the daily process of living.
Be Nice to People,
Julie