Friday, July 04, 2014

         Happy Fourth of July!  I hope you all had a chance to celebrate, have great food, and reflect on the blessing of living in this great country.  Even though there are so many challenges facing our nation today, living in the USA is a privilege and brings with it freedoms we take for granted because we have never been without them.  Living out of the country makes us appreciate every-day circumstances that give us freedom of choice, relative peace and safety, services and protection agencies we can count on, and access to a long list of things that just aren’t available outside our borders.  Today we are counting the blessings of being citizens of our great country.

         Glade stayed home from the temple today to rest his back which was feeling pretty bad.  He sat in the recliner most of the day where he did three hours of continuing education for his dental license and studied the Old Testament manual in Spanish.  He is comfortable and relieved of the pain when he sits in the recliner, so that is good.  He plans to go back to work tomorrow and will try to avoid the activities that create the pain.

         For our Fourth of July treat, I made a muffin mix this morning with fresh frozen blueberries and raspberries and baked it in a loaf pan.  With a little whipped topping from a can, we had our red, white, and blue confection and it tasted yummy.  Tonight we watched a network program—Macy’s Fourth of July Fireworks Celebration from New York and it was amazing!!   It made it feel a little more like the holiday.  One sister came up to me in the temple today and in Spanish wished me a happy Fourth of July.  It was so sweet and she was just full of smiles.

         Enjoy the rest of the week-end.  Love and miss you all!