A Complimentary Dinner

Tonight I made enchilada casserole for dinner, a huge favorite of the boys'. They gave me an appreciative round of applause at the beginning of the meal, and then when Nathan was all done (3 big helpings later), he leaned back and told me it was "excellent . . . as usual". Luke followed that up with, "Hey, Mom, your tummy is shrinking!" Why yes, LOL, thanks for noticing! It's not shrinking fast enough to suit me, since I still am nowhere close to fitting into any clothes, but it IS smaller. Usually the kind of "tummy" comments I get are something like, "Wow, Mom, your tummy looks like a big stretched-out balloon", which was said by Nathan after I had Jonathan. Not nearly as complimentary, I must say.

I think the boys were predisposed to be so flattering because I went to the library this morning after my dental appointment, so they have all sorts of new books to read. Yes, I am feeling well enough to run errands! It is so nice to be able to do things without that chronic excruciating soreness. I feel I am still more tired than normal, but the pain . . . so wonderful to have that gone. I am thanking the Lord to live in the age of antibiotics! I can't imagine how those pioneer women could have handled mastitis--bears and Indians, yes, but mastitis, no.