Poor Potatoes

Somehow in all of this carb frenzy, the poor baked potato has gotten a bad rap........well, one night I made them for the kids, and they devoured them! So tonight, that's what we had!!! I rubbed 5 huge baked potatoes in butter, wrapped them in foil, and put them in the oven for about 3 hours at 250. Then, slathered on the butter, cheese, bacon, sour cream and chives from the garden. That was dinner (Steve hadn't gotten back yet). After dinner, I did something I rarely do, but highly suggest it. I had promised the kids that they could watch Peter Pan tonight, if they were done with all of their homework, so I set up the movie downstairs, and they longingly looked at me and said,"Are you going to watch it with us Mom?" I looked around at the dishes, laundry, stacks of this and that and said.............YES! Let me put on my jammies first, and I cuddled up on the couch with the kids and watched a movie. Toward the end of the movie we heard a knock in the kitchen, only to see this dark shadow hovering over us, and it was "Daddy", who had gotten an earlier flight an arrive a couple hours early. He is putting them to bed now. Today was just another beautiful day here in Franklin. Hardly a cloud in the sky all day. It is days like these that all of my many blessings seem much more clear to me, so I'm very thankful when God gives them to us.. Now, I know that rainy days have their purpose too, I just much prefer the sunny ones. Goodnight. J