I wasn’t going to post today — it’s Saturday! But I’ve found that I missed writing to you. I’m adding a new link to my “Favorites” and wanted to introduce her. She’s a writer from Texas who is currently living in southern France with her family, writing novels and other non-fiction while helping to establish a new church. Her name is Mary DeMuth.

Go visit her blog — and check out her new book, ORDINARY MOM, EXTRAORDINARY GOD. Doesn’t that sound wonderful? I can’t wait to read it. I certainly feel ordinary most of the time, but find that our extraordinary God can do mighty things when we listen.

She’s got a wonderful blog, full of pictures. She’s much more technically savvy than I am, although we scanned in a picture last night of me and my older daughters (in the “About Me” section.) This was taken last spring at my grandmother’s house. It’s funny — as a child, I used to climb up in that dogwood tree and write poems about Mary Magdalene. I always thought it was amazing that a woman was the first to see Jesus after He arose.

Tonight, we were all dressed to go to a bonfire at my husband’s brother’s house. His wife has become friends with a family from New Zealand, and they came for a visit! Then our oldest daughter got sick (should I write this?). So, I stayed home, while my husband drove the three others.

Well, after driving in the car over an hour, another daughter got sick, and they’re on their miserable way home now. I’m sorry to have to write such disappointing things — but thought someone out there could relate that it’s tough being a parent sometimes.

We certainly don’t want this virus to make its way back to New Zealand! It also caused the sudden cancellation of a much-anticipated Thomas the Tank Engine birthday party for a friend of my son’s this morning. What a day!

Oh well. Mary’s blog cheered me up very much. Read what she says about grace for moms .