hearing the birds chirping in the morning (because the window is open )

 seeing the green green grass

 seeing the leaves on the trees

 having my family home for Mother's Day

 having no commitments for the weekend (except for lectoring at mass tonight)

 having Aaron's graduation/open house announcements mailed!!!

My week at work:

 continued to work on record keeping and year end processes

 took care of some files

 had lunch with the Faith Formation director of the parish that we will soon be twinned with. We had a good conversation about each of our programs, and what the future might hold. Of course, we don't know what the future will hold, but the conversation has begun.

 attended the annual diocesan retreat for parish faith formation staffs. It really wasn't much of a retreat....there was some prayer and reflection time after lunch, but mostly it was a fun presentation on the use of media with young people. Got some great resources.

 Coming up this week:

An appointment with the diocesan consultant for persons with disability differences to discuss a young girl we have in our program.

A meeting with the person who does our website to get my own page set up and learn how to update it myself

Courtney moved home yesterday for the summer while she tries to secure an internship (required for her degree) and find a job to earn some money before she leaves in the fall.

Tomorrow is Mother's Day of course and right now we have no specific plans. I told my family I didn't want to go out somewhere to eat (restaurants get SO busy on days like this) so we will get some nice steaks for the grill. I would like to find something to do, however, to get us out of the house. I plan to have FUN!!

Happy Mother's Day to all those mothers out there!

peace