A Few Morning Thoughts

-I was awakened around 4:30 this morning because my bed was shaking. Yep. Earthquake along the lines of 5.4. For those of you who knew me when the big one of 1999 hit, I handled this one much, much better. We were living in California at the time. I told P.K. not to mention it to the kids because I didn't want them to be afraid. He said they would probably hear about it at school. I decided to tell them. I explained how and why earthquakes happen and contrary to what they might hear at school, this doesn't mean we will have more any time soon.

-The temperature here this morning was actually warm enough that I was able to sit on my back deck and have my morning quiet time with God. My prayer journal went something like this:

Thanks for the morning wake up call. That is one way to get your children up and talking to you. I've been asking you to help me to wake up earlier so that I can have a good amount of time to read and pray. Earthquakes work. I'll get up on my own from now on.

-While I was on the back deck, I saw not one, but two great blue heron circling the pond. Beautiful!

-Because I was up so early the kids had pancakes for breakfast instead of cereal or poptarts.

-This is what it is like to blog without posting a picture. Hmm?