Thankful Thursday Counting our many blessings

Today, I am thankful for:

1. Lack of Picture Day drama

2. Old friends, new again

3. Helpful family

4. My hard-working sweetheart and our soon to be (good as) "new" deck

5. Foster-families who are willing to love, and wake up in the night to feed, beautiful children who God has placed in their lives for a reason, if only for a season

Not necessarily in that order... ;^)

Count your blessings, name them one by one,
Count your blessings, see what God hath done!
Count your blessings, name them one by one,
And it will surprise you what the Lord hath done.

(Read the whole beautiful hymn at the cyberhymnal.com)

Monday's Moments - Memories & Milestones

Life is made of moments...

even now and then a small one.

Here are some of the best moments, memories and milestones from the last week:



Our 1st Grade "Star of the Week!"

• Reader R was the Star of the Week in Mrs. Cox's 1st grade class.  Her classmates wrote her letters and told her how nice and pretty she is. ;^)
• Curious K learned a hard lesson about how if you say you are sick, you don't get to go to preschool.
• Little L loves to wear hair bows. ;^)  Sunday she got to wear her Chiefs cheerleader outfit, with a big red hair bow, because they finally won a game - fair weather fans we are!
• Reader R and Curious K went on a campout with Poppie at Clinton Lake Park.  It was K's first outside of the backyard. (Mom remembered the camera, but forgot to check for batteries...)
• Reader R lost her sixth tooth AND the tooth fairy found her camping to deliver the $1!
• Curious K has figured out she CAN eat the apple with the peal on... (Thank you Awesome Kids Preschool.  If she doesn't learn anything else this year, you have already changed her life, and mine!)
• Little L can say "two."  When we say "one," she says "two."  It is hilarious!  Matthew caught it on video, but I haven't learned how to post those yet...
• We saw some hot air balloons on the way to church last night, Curious K said "They came all the way from North Dakota to say 'Hi!'."  Where do kids get these things? ;^)

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This was just a moment in the woods...

Our moment.

Shimmering and lovely and sad.

Leave the moment, just be glad

For the moment that we had.

Every moment is of moment

When you're in the woods...

- Stephen Sondheim "Any Moment" from Into the Woods