Income tax papers submitted, inventory counted, and a client’s work well on the way, I finally had time to read Nina Spencer’s well written article, “Lessons From the Freeway and Beyond: Making Space for Grace.” It seemed so fitting that I want share it with my family and a couple of friends.

I wrote back to her this morning to say how perfect it was for this time, as someone else had written to her. She gave permission to share it. See next post.

Our daughter had called ahead yesterday to see if we could sit on our front porch for a bit and visit when they came by. I’d emailed about dropping off the children’s Easter surprise, and they had a surprise for us.

Our eldest daughter has been  teaching her two young children (3, 5) some dance moves and yesterday they came to “perform” on our driveway. Adrienne had a small speaker tucked under her arm that was attached to her cell phone. She had selections saved that the children had been using for their practising, and she turned it on once the children found their spot to start.

 We had no idea about the dancing that was about to take place. Three or four different tunes, dancing on driveway and sometimes on the lawn. That was a lovely surprise that filled our day with even more sunshine. We had no hugs but we did have distant high fives as we blew kisses when they were ready to climb in their van and return home.

The older two granddaughters use Face time, so they send messages to me and I get to see them, and hear them, on screen about once a week. And I’ve used the same media to tell and read bedtime stories to the other three-year-old grandson in the last two weeks.