• Mt. Lakes Bible Camp. Breathtaking wilderness at 5,000 feet. Cool, crisp air and warm sunshine on our faces. God’s faithfulness to us there. So thankful.
  • My bed.
  • Heat.
  • Traveling light.
  • Kind words, warm smiles, even warmer hugs.
  • Testimonies.
  • Spiritual gifts.
  • Airplanes!
  • God-ordained conversations. Praying for Laura on the airplane.
  • Linda Casady reminding me of everyday evangelism. Beautiful words.
  • Pastors’ wives.
  • Pictures sent via cellphone.
  • A husband who’s willing to do daddy duty and pull off a house-showing while fulfilling responsibilities at church. I nominate him man of the year!
  • Doors cracking open.
  • Letting Dutch sleep in my bed. Just this once…
  • Last-minute playdates and picnics at the park. Love it when things all fall into place.
  • Heaven is for Real. Amen, Colton Burpo. Amen. Gives me a new excitement for our forever home.
  • Riversong. It never ceases to amaze me how magical this place really is.
  • Kids in the hot-tub.
  • Wonderful long morning with my friend/sister/discipler and her daughter, now a grown woman! Love them so…
  • Anticipation of a 3-day weekend!
  • Sitting on front porch, sunshine on our faces, happy bees buzzing and trees swaying in warm breeze.
  • Kids playing happily in backyard.  Glancing out twenty minutes later and finding they had both taken off every stitch of clothing and were playing happily in the sandbox completely nude. WHAT? My kids are so weird! (Yes, I made them put clothes on!)
  • New teapot given to me! (Community Group will appreciate me putting my sad old one to rest.)
  • Not having a CD player in the house to play kids’ worship music.  A few days later, one given to me!  A gift! Crazy.
  • Not having an ipod because I gave mine away. Husband bought me one while I was at the retreat! What a man. Crazy, this week has been like Christmas. Gifts gifts gifts.
  • My husband’s face so happy at his own new toy. Though I inwardly scoff at new technology I am happy he’s so happy.
  • This post by Ann Voskamp. Boy can I relate.
  • Back in the arms of my man after SIX days apart!  Saying a hundred times that night, “Neither of us are allowed to go away anymore.” 🙂 So thankful we like each other.
  • Kids so happy to have daddy home!
  • Playing “hide-and-seek” outside church. Doesn’t take much to entertain these kids.
  • Holding hands in prayer.
  • Discipleship.
  • Godly women.
  • Greek yogurt. (Not sure how my mind went from godly women to Greek yogurt…)
  • Sprouting beans.
  • My first laundry day using homemade laundry soap! It works!
  • Sorting through husband’s socks, pulling out the ones with holes. Little things, happy heart, many many socks in need!
  • Homemade pizza with generous people. Real, loving, refreshing. So encouraged by God’s dear people.
  • A Bug’s Life.
  • My kids wearing their Thomas & Dora backpacks to a house for dinner.  Ok they were SO CUTE trouncing across the lawn and into the house with their little backpacks. So proud of this little monkeys!
  • Laughter.
  • Saran Wrap. I mean really, the stuff is in amazing.
  • First real run in six months: 5.12 miles–woohoo!
  • 30 lbs. of local organic Fuji apples!
  • Husband who does dishes.
  • Feeling sooooo tired and sleeeepy … so glad it is Friday night and time for bed …
  • Aching knees remind me I ran. The good ache.
  • Blessed women’s ministry meeting, dear saints who love Jesus and women so much.
  • Long weekend.
  • No alarm.
  • Being with my favorite people in the world.
  • Rest.

7 thoughts on “Week's end with thanks”

  1. I love these lists, Kari! Also, I need to try that homemade laundry soap. Is it from Organized Simplicity? Does it smell good? That’s my only hang up. I LOVE the smell of our Tide-cleaned laundry. But I hate the price. 🙂

    1. Yes! From Organized Simplicity, but I didn’t have any essential oils and was too lazy to grate the bar soap, so I just squirted some Dr. Bronner’s eucalyptus soap from our bathroom in with the borax and washing soda. It worked GREAT and smelled yummy too! (I also used dryer sheets for extra yummy smell). I’m with you on the scent thing–gotta have that fresh laundry smell.

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