Fridays are so energizing. I love my job, but knowing I have the weekend ahead of me, makes me very happy.

We are busy at work putting the final touches on the menu for the New Year's Eve and New Year's Day meals. I am all "planned out" by the time I get home and have to push myself to now plan a personal menu for my family. It's the ying and yang of life, trying to come out even in the end.

Work has brought an awareness I was missing. The "little things" I hardly noticed---the haven my home is, the haven my husband is, the haven of quietness---are what I'm thanking God for each day.