"Paper" and "Blessings"

On the way home from seeing Heather today, we stopped and picked up Mike and Adrianne's anniversary gift. Traditionally, the first anniversary is about 'paper', so we had their invitation framed for them.

It was really interesting: they prefer more straight lines and we kept trying to add a more simple frame and it was just getting lost. The gal who was helping me thought we should just try something a little more traditional on a lark. Bingo! It worked. Now you notice the invitation and not the frame. Yet it doesn't take away from the style that they like. And for something 'wedding' it adds an 'important' statement. The black is a really nice silk looking mat. It adds a lot.

I learned a lot doing this. I can't wait to see it in their home! I have a stack of our wedding invitations just sitting in a box in the garage. Maybe I should take ours and get it framed too. Hmmm, I'll have to give that some more thought....

Journal: Mike went with us to Heather's care facility while I was getting some training. He was so sweet with her. Her best friend, Carly, was there too and it was nice to get to know her better. We would love to have the same days and work together with Heather. The 3 of us had a pretty fun time doing physical therapy if you can even remotely call physical therapy fun. Well, maybe for us, but not for Heather, although we made her laugh a lot. She worked REALLY hard. Going home is a great motivator! Duff was on 'fanning' and 'towel' duty--keeping her cool and patting her face dry. To see the determination in her is inspiring! Uncle Fred and Hannah, Heather's daughter, were there when we got back to her room. Hannah and Heather were having a 'date' this afternoon. Hannah brought the Kit Kittredge movie. She had a cute bag with some Capri Sun drinks and a ziploc bag full of popcorn they could enjoy, and all her school work to show and tell. How darling is that! It was touching to see the divinity of motherhood in even these less than ideal circumstances. I've thought a lot about the blessing of being an ETERNAL family tonight. What if we didn't have the gospel? What if we didn't have baptism? What if we didn't have the priesthood? What if we didn't have temples? What if we didn't have covenants? An ETERNAL family would not be possible.

OH! How blessed we are!