Blessings Abound

We had a blessing hosting both of our families last week for our Encore show, but our families seemed to be blessed with even better fortune! On Monday, my mom called and said she had some good news. My sister Annie, who graduated in May and has been searching for a teaching job ever since, got a job as the choral director at Gainesville Middle School in Gainesville, Georgia! It was such a relief to hear that she found a great fitting job even in this dismal economic environment. P.S. She starts this Monday!

We were overcome with excitement, but then my mom said, "Guess what else?" Well, we knew that during the last week of school in the spring, she found out she had been chosen as Teacher of the Year for her school, the first to do so without having a full-time class (she's a Title 1 reading teacher). So she went on to tell us her news--that she had been chosen as the entire school system's Teacher of the Year as well, the first time anyone from her school had been given the honor!

No one deserves these blessings more than those two. We were hoping a stroke of luck might hit us too, that maybe we'd hit the lottery (even though we hadn't bought a ticket), but even though nothing extraordinary happened to us, it was still a blessed day.