A Very Unexpected Blessing

Maybe I need to rethink that title. It may imply that I’m expecting and that’s not the case. The unexpected blessing in this case happens to be the arrival of my sweet sister who is on the downhill side of 25 (and none-too-happy about it) and not a tiny babe.

I’m pretty sure I whined about it enough but I’ll quickly recap just to catch everyone up to speed. My sister, and brother-in-law, moved from our town in the Midwest to the East Coast last July. The plan was that they would live there until their move overseas (GASP!) in September of this year.

As it turns out, there has been an awesome turn of events and my sister will be moving back to our town until the overseas move in September. Her husband is in the Navy and will be on a six month cruise from April-September as he makes his way to their new base overseas. Rather than sit on the East Coast all be her lonesome, my sister has decided to come back and hang out with us. I couldn’t be more excited if I tried. I’m very tempted to imitate Daisy and shout “Hip-Hip Hooray!” here but I’ll spare you.

I’m looking forward to lots of quality sister time and lots of quality Auntie Jo time for her and my kids. We may even head back to the same springtime festival we did last year. We’ll just pray that the trip is a little less eventful this time-ahem.

I’m off to help the kids make some festive “Welcome Home” decorations. God is so good!