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Thank God For Cancellations!

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We've been running around like crazy the last two weeks - on top of our normal daily stuff, we ordered, picked up, and assembled new children's furniture at our church.  And we put together a Valentine's party for our homeschool group (which I loved doing - it just sort of added to the busyness this week)  My husband, head pastor of a local church for less than 5 months, has had to conduct 2 funerals, one last weekend and one this, on top of his normal workload.  A very stretching experience for a man whose ministry was pastoring teenagers for the last seven years.  He did a fine job.  As a family, we tried to support him in every way we could think of.  But stress is stress - there's no two ways about it. So our Valentine's Day started out with a funeral.  Hubby came home just before nap time, so I greeted him before I headed up for my nap. Yep, I nap too.  Parenting is exhausting!  I awoke with 1/2 hour left to talk to hubby about his ...