My Soldier Son is Home

Son arrived safe in Dallas today from Afghanistan. His trip took 53 hours! I am soooooo glad he is back in the USA! We had lunch with him and his sweet wife at little local Italian restaurant and I baked Texas Sheath Cake for him for his birthday. Birthday was 3 days ago, his first travel day! But, I so wanted to celebrate with him!!! In just two weeks we will have to say good-bye again and send him back to Afghanistan.

It was a good day, that just got better. Youngest son's b-day was today, so later in the day I went to his house to celebrate his day as well. Youngest son and his sweet wife went out to dinner while I kept my grandchildren. One could not have a better day!

Since middle son has missed all the holidays, we are having an all holiday party for him next weekend. We are having our first annual chili cook-off! Hope the weather is as warm and nice as it was today - sonny and 70s. Earlier this week we had an ice day with local schools dismissed and the temp in the low 20s. Living in Texas is always interesting - weather can change 50 degrees in one day! It looks like we are going to have really good weather for the next week.

I had the opportunity to attend a Baptist Women's Conference this weekend. The teachers were really uplifting. My friend from East Texas attended also, so we got to spend time together. I do so miss her since she has moved from Dallas. It is good when we can have a weekend together. She plans to be here next weekend for the party and then on to Church with us. We have started attending the Cowboy Church of Dallas County. They have moved to their permanent building and will be having the grand opening in one week. The church will have dinner on the grounds with lots of family activities and the church band preforming lots of music. I look forward to meeting new people in this little church and making it my church home.