We Have a Winner!

I painstakingly typed out all the names of the people who commented on the blog post about the giveaway of Dorcas Smucker's latest book, Footprints on the Ceiling.  For each person who shared a shining moment, I typed the name a second time.

Then I printed the paper and cut the names apart.  After they were all folded and shuffled and shaken up and prayed over, Hiromi drew out one name:  HANNAH !

I promise that I would have been just as happy if it had been any of the 38 other people whose names were in the mix, but this is a very convenient winner.  Hannah Miller is my 22-year-old niece, and she lives close by so I won't have to mail out the book.  I'll just give it to her the next time I see her.

Hannah told about her shining moment a little reluctantly.  It involved a very fast and dramatic descent to the bottom of the stairs, full laundry basket in hand, and ending with Hannah sprawled across the floor at the bottom.  She wasn't hurt, so every observer could safely laugh at the spectacle.  Better yet, no one in the family missed the irony of Hannah having put on this performance, given the fact that she has been the most diligent of all in issuing warnings to the rest of the family about safety on the stairs.

If you're  not already Hannah's Facebook friend, you really ought to go to her page and see how she looks, all dressed up in 1950s garb for a youth social.  She's wearing a polka-dot dress and straw hat with pink flowers at the back.  She's quite a fetching young lady in any garb, but, with her sister Christy's help, she outdid herself on this occasion.  My nephew, Hans, Hannah's cousin, took the pictures.  If you can't view them on Hannah's page, maybe it will work to do so on Hans' page.  Good luck--and Hannah, Congratulations.

Thanks so much for all of the other 513 people who stopped by the blog on the day the post was published.  I really appreciate your taking the time to do so, especially for those of  you who took the time to comment.