Home again

I'm so grateful tonight to be back home after spending two nights at the hospital.  I am lucky.  I have a wonderful husband who cares about me and is there to back me up.  I have the Priesthood of God in my home and men who honor that priesthood to give me blessings.  I am healthy and will recover quickly from this surgery, in fact I plan to feel better than I did before.  I have friends and family nearby who called, prayed for me, brought flowers and balloons and visited.  I have wonderful children who love me and care enough to call, send flowers, cook soup, and just let me know they care.  Mostly, I have a posterity that cannot be diminished.  When Bryce came to visit me after the birth of our first daughter Kathy, he brought me a vase of three carnations - two white ones representing the two of us, and a pink one representing the new baby.  When Matthew was born I got two white, a pink and a blue.  This pattern continued with each baby.  This time I was in the women's center with new babies in the rooms nearby, having had the opposite of delivering a baby.  But in came Sara with a vase of carnations - two white, eight pink and eight blue.  That represents Bryce and I, four children, four spouses and almost eight grandchildren.  Yes, I'm so very lucky!