Speaking of sleepovers, I came home the other day to this note and gift on my porch. Gracie's friend Kilauni, who spent the night a couple of weeks ago, left it for me. It's wonderful to be called "the bestest mom in the whole wide universe," even if your own kids would beg to differ. 
Posted by Amanda at 11:14 AM
I talk about my life anyway because if, on the one hand,
hardly anything could be less important, on the other hand,
hardly anything could be more important.
My story is important not because it is mine, God knows,
but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are
you will recognize that in many ways it is also yours.
Maybe nothing is more important than that we keep track, you and I,
of these stories of who we are and where we have come from
and the people we have met along the way
because it is precisely through these stories in all their particularity,
as I have long believed and often said, that God makes himself known
to each of us most powerfully and personally.
-- Frederick Buechner
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That is so sweet!