Today was Eloise's first day in the third grade so it was a pretty hectic affair to begin with. After she got all of her chatter about school out of her system I decided to close my eyes for 30 minutes or so before we had to leave for her violin lessons. I had just begun to doze off when I thought I heard my husband say wake up we have some people from France in our front yard. I thought to myself this is either a bizarre dream or I'm going to strangle my husband for his sick sense of humor. Yawn...stretch...look around the room.......hear...... FRENCH .....VOICES!!!.....jump up....do the flight of the bumble bee.... So...... there we sat in my dining room. My husband, his mom, his third cousin from FRANCE, her husband from FRANCE, and their children from FRANCE, looking at pictures while Eloise serenaded us. They commented quite emphatically that Eloise is a spittin image of the cousin when she was a little girl(except they said it all FRENCH like.) Well I hope so, I wouldn't want to be entertaining complete strangers if they didn't bear some sort of resemblance. ;-) ROTFL
So what do you do when the introductions are all over and your accents don't quite mesh?......I tell you what we did... we took them to the World Famous "Willie D's Cadillac Custard Shop." They didn't get to meet the King of Custard(Willie D from Arabi) since we didn't have a reservation, but they did get to see the Duchess of Custard (Willies daughter.) There were lots of smiles and mmm's going on (thank God food is a universal language!) We snapped a few photos and they were wisked off in the Honda Oddesy and we were left scratching our heads and laughing. Was that for real?!? Ya Gotta Love My World! ;-)
Monique, here is the pic you wanted from my spinner. I put a couple of pics below of Children's choir, talent show and your niece teaching Sunday school. You should be able to right click on the photos and copy them to your computer. Let me know if it doesn't work. I will also be looking for more pics & will post them for you. Be sure to let your church know that on this 3rd anniversary of Katrina I was thinking about all the extended church family we met throughout this whole ordeal and I just had to smile. ;-) Thanks to all especially Sis Nita. God is so good & faithful! I am still on this learning journey, but I can say I am a lot more patient than I was 3 years ago. Am I thinking about this "Gustav" that's brewing out there?....All lies aside....YES!... but I am surely not stricken with fear because I know my God does as He pleases and that all things work for the good when it comes to His children. Now I have to quit playing an start packing important papers & stuff since they might be calling a mandatory evacuation tomorrow. I think all will be fine, but if it's not I want to use this wonderful mind the good Lord gave me and be better prepared this time. 
