Parker is coming home Friday. I'm at once excited and apprehensive. He is such fun to be around when he's the old Parker, he also brings so much stress to our family. Always something cooking, some deal he's trying to make with us, some way to get around a rule ... really when I look back he's always been that way. The drugs just made it horrible. I pray the lying stops and his sincere desire to get well overwhelms him. I pray lots more, but mostly for Jesus to grab ahold of him ... oh how I would love to see Parker fully in love with Jesus, but I also have to get out of the way so He can!! That's hard for me, as a mom and a Christian, to get out of the way - to know when to be quiet and when to say something. So I pray.

The flatware, set on the left I have 8 place settings, the middle, 14 forks, 9 knives and 8 spoons, the group on the right is a sampling of the 12 place settings I borrowed from Martha...mixed sets but 12 each...the top picture may have cut off the setting on the left...it's closer up of the mix matched stuff...

My White Kitchen

Would you want to use these? one holds dinner size plates (like for serving) and the other holds small plates (I have white plate that fit both....)

do you want me to borrow these?

serving pces and overview of all stuff, I have enough white cloth napkins varying patterns but all white to use do you want?

Some of the serving things, cream/sugars and a little view of other stuff

These are the plates so far..I have most of the white, do you still want more/different?

these are some more of the cups, the one in the middle is my china but it blends ok?