We already love ourselves plenty.

Hi Friends,

I hope you had a lovely Easter! 

Katie is slowly recovering from the flu.  She missed all four days of school last week. ( I fortunately missed out on the flu and just got a terrible cough.)

While Katie did not have the throwing up kind of flu...she at this point feels well, but can not eat without feeling nauseous.  She has always had a sensitive tummy and she feel ill even eating her Easter candy.  That is the real test of illness right there!

She is shocked by how big her pants are on her...

I guess five days of no food will do that to an already tiny girl.

Fortunately we have spring break to get her tummy acclimated to eating again.

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Janice and Janet turned 50 yesterday!  They had lots of parties and lots of fun celebrating this great achievement!  Turning 50!  I remember when they were excited to be a decade!

I have always loved this picture of them.

Cute. Cute.

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When Katie was sick I bought her a bunny to cuddle.

It worked.

Yesterday after church....proudly wearing her 'I worshiped' sticker.

Did you know worshiped can be spelled with one or two 'p's?

We learned that yesterday because Katie did not think it looked right with one.

worshipped....more British I guess.

Over the weekend Katie and I heard Oprah and Joel Osteen telling a story about a woman who looked at herself in the mirror every morning and told herself that she was beautiful...and they both thought that was the coolest thing to do.

And I thought it was shallow and narcissistic.

IMHO

haha

And I said to Katie...

well...let's just say I went on and on in a typical Donna-Mom fashion.

I said.

You should look in the mirror and say,

You are loved.

And.

You were created to go out there and love others.

And then, of course, I said....God doesn't care how beautiful you are!

To which Katie said,

That should be your thing mom.  You should tell people that...and I think she meant...it should be my Ted talk.  hahaha

And I said.

Yeah.

So.  Don't forget it.

You are loved.

You were created to go out there and love others.

Encourage one another,

Donna

p.s.  We did not watch any more of the joel and oprah show.

p.p.s.  My blog title is a thought from Elisabeth Elliot....she thought we loved ourselves plenty...as evidenced by how much we put ourselves first, feed ourselves, thought about ourselves...

I think she was right.