Counting my Blessings and Giving Thanks and Praise for:
1. Story writing with kids. Ideas bound across the page with live action and hints of mystery.
2. Putting a roasted dinner in the oven, and knowing I don't have to do anything more for dinner for at least an hour.
3. Friendship.
4. Dogs who jump.
5. Cats who sleep on rainy days.
6. Pecans.
7. The smell of pumpkin soup.
8. Plans for a harvest stew.
9. Band Angels . . . Band Aids with words of comfort from God's Word.
10. Celebrating my youngest daughter's baptismal birthday with a candlelit breakfast, and a song.
11. Praying with my kids for the swift recovery and complete healing for a young girl we know and love.
12. Learning a little Latin.
13. Playing with the snippets of language I know with my girls. We can say hello in at least six languages. I'm not sure we would survive if more words were required of us, but saying hello is fun when you are saying it in German, Japanese, Latin, French, Spanish, and Hawaiin. Oh, and sign language too.
14. Remembering more French that I think I should after many, many years away from practicing it.
15. My youngest knows how to say John 3:16 in sign language.
16. Practicing the sign for "Hallelujah" in the car sitting at a stoplight, and then realizing how it might look to other drivers :-O :-)
17. An amazing woman I know who keeps it all together, homeschools her kids, takes care of kids whose parents need a break, prepares for in-laws, has friends over, and keeps her household running smoothly - all at the same time. BTW, this is not me.
18. I finished the base word count for NaNoWriMo today. However, after being behind for at least 3 days, or is it 4, I need to write just a bit more each day.
19. Silly bands found at a Christian bookstore.
20. The light of Christ.
Scripture Blessings:
"For God, who said, 'Let light shine out of darkness,' has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ." 2 Corinthians 4:6
Showing posts with label pumpkins. Show all posts
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Thursday, November 11, 2010
Saturday, October 30, 2010
365 Days of Blessings, Day 154
1. Pumpkin guts.
2. Pumpkin seeds.
3. Pumpkin carving – I like silly faces best, and my family likes to get out the fancy templates.
4. Halloween crafts and fun.
5. Halloween Haiku
6. Upper Room Devotional - I loved the devotional for October 30th. It hit me just right.
7. How to Beam Someone Up at the Eagle's Aerial Perspective - a very humorous post that made me laugh this morning.
8. I'm AWAKE today.
9. Submitted three poems this morning and keeping my hopes up.
10. The Lord lights up our lives. Without him, we would be dark and hollow, like an uncarved pumpkin with no candle inside.
Hopefully tomorrow, I'll have pictures, but currently the family pumpkin creations are still unfinished - almost two hours into the haunted house pumpkin carving. Whew.
Scripture Blessings:"You are my lamp, O LORD; the LORD turns my darkness into light."
2 Samuel 22:29
2. Pumpkin seeds.
3. Pumpkin carving – I like silly faces best, and my family likes to get out the fancy templates.
4. Halloween crafts and fun.
5. Halloween Haiku
6. Upper Room Devotional - I loved the devotional for October 30th. It hit me just right.
7. How to Beam Someone Up at the Eagle's Aerial Perspective - a very humorous post that made me laugh this morning.
8. I'm AWAKE today.
9. Submitted three poems this morning and keeping my hopes up.
10. The Lord lights up our lives. Without him, we would be dark and hollow, like an uncarved pumpkin with no candle inside.
Hopefully tomorrow, I'll have pictures, but currently the family pumpkin creations are still unfinished - almost two hours into the haunted house pumpkin carving. Whew.
Scripture Blessings:"You are my lamp, O LORD; the LORD turns my darkness into light."
2 Samuel 22:29
Friday, October 15, 2010
365 Days of Blessings, Day 139
Pumpkin Patch Friday
1. Driving to our favorite pumpkin patch, Spooner Farms, under a blue sky.
2. An Alice in Wonderland corn maze, the best Spooner Farms maze we've ever experienced. The mud factor was low, due to sunny skies. The decorations were perfect and playful.
3. Going through the rabbit hole with Alice . . . in a corn maze.
4. The Queen of Heart's Castle was great, the Jabberwocky playtoy was cool, and we enjoyed the Mad Hatter's Tea Party too.
5. Finding all the little punch stations in the maze, and finding them easily.
6. Picking out our pumpkins. Each person gets one that they can carry, especially since Daddy (my husband) threw his back out last weekend. No ginormous pumpkins this year, but we still found some very nice ones.
7. Finding a number of colorful, twisted, and decorative squash.
8. Playing Pumpkin Slingshot, and trying to win a giant pumpkin. The fun is in the launching. Somehow having won one last year satisfied our desire to win even this year.
9. Playing trough water races with plastic duckies and hand pumps . . . I wish I had taken my camera with me, because I'm not sure I can fully describe the fun.
10. The pleasant, orange cheeked pumpkins sitting on our porch, waiting to receive their faces.
11. Returning to volunteer at the Cat Rescue after four months of being away from all those wonderful kitties. Some have been adopted, and some are new. Some are like old friends who serenade us with their symphonic purrs.
12. God provides us with bountiful blessings!
Scripture Blessings:
"They will come and shout for joy on the heights of Zion; they will rejoice in the bounty of the LORD— the grain, the new wine and the oil, the young of the flocks and herds. They will be like a well-watered garden, and they will sorrow no more." Jeremiah 31:12
1. Driving to our favorite pumpkin patch, Spooner Farms, under a blue sky.
2. An Alice in Wonderland corn maze, the best Spooner Farms maze we've ever experienced. The mud factor was low, due to sunny skies. The decorations were perfect and playful.
3. Going through the rabbit hole with Alice . . . in a corn maze.
4. The Queen of Heart's Castle was great, the Jabberwocky playtoy was cool, and we enjoyed the Mad Hatter's Tea Party too.
5. Finding all the little punch stations in the maze, and finding them easily.
6. Picking out our pumpkins. Each person gets one that they can carry, especially since Daddy (my husband) threw his back out last weekend. No ginormous pumpkins this year, but we still found some very nice ones.
7. Finding a number of colorful, twisted, and decorative squash.
8. Playing Pumpkin Slingshot, and trying to win a giant pumpkin. The fun is in the launching. Somehow having won one last year satisfied our desire to win even this year.
9. Playing trough water races with plastic duckies and hand pumps . . . I wish I had taken my camera with me, because I'm not sure I can fully describe the fun.
10. The pleasant, orange cheeked pumpkins sitting on our porch, waiting to receive their faces.
11. Returning to volunteer at the Cat Rescue after four months of being away from all those wonderful kitties. Some have been adopted, and some are new. Some are like old friends who serenade us with their symphonic purrs.
12. God provides us with bountiful blessings!
Scripture Blessings:
"They will come and shout for joy on the heights of Zion; they will rejoice in the bounty of the LORD— the grain, the new wine and the oil, the young of the flocks and herds. They will be like a well-watered garden, and they will sorrow no more." Jeremiah 31:12
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