Family Gathering Woes...

This past weekend we were lucky enough to have my Dad's family at our place for our annual family gathering. It was loads of fun except for the fact that it rained some of the time. The trouble is we spent a week (or two) trimming, washing, cleaning, fixing, organizing, and ordering a giant ice-cream machine just for one special day! I shouldn't complain except that I wonder how many people out of all of our cousins, aunts, uncles, and Grandma, noticed that the bookshelf was dusted? I know for a fact that they discovered the ice-cream machine! Except for one lovely cousin of mine who complimented me on how cleaned up everything was! Thanks Ella Mae! So.. all that inspires me to hand out compliments freely and look past the "ice-cream machine" to the smaller just as important tasks someone humbly did behind the scenes! Besides it is a lot easier to incorporate humility if you're not the one on the front lines! So be the duster not the ice-cream machine orderer!