Saying goodbye for a couple days

  • Weekend retreat with college girls … reminds me of sweet old Real Life days.
  • Being with AJ again.
  • Three kids hunched over the Lego Star Wars book.
  • Heidi, “Where’s my padawan?”
  • A printer that works.
  • So many sunny days!
  • Roaring fire.
  • Wearing Jeff’s slippers.
  • Finding a new pair of jeans in my closet, bought years ago, tags still on. Better than shopping!
  • Janelle Furman’s servant heart!
  • My retreat-buddy Heidi!
  • Warming shoes by the fire.
  • 9 quarts of homemade chicken stock delivered to my doorstep!
  • Friends.
  • Precious new life.
  • Our monthly multi-stop shopping trip with both kids and they were awesome!
  • Food swamps with a friend.
  • Danielle’s cookies still warm.
  • Five kids gathered round the pirate movie.
  • Sitting in the kitchen with a cup of hot tea.
  • Sun going down, God’s faithfulness in another day.
  • The gift of a treadmill!!
  • Reminiscing.
  • Spice bottles.
  • Wide-mouth quart canning jars.
  • Roasted beets and yams.
  • That we finally finished the lentil soup. We ate it for a week. Enough!
  • Making the rare treat (in our minimal-grain, minimal-dairy house) of fettucini alfredo made from scratch. YUM!
  • Sneaking bites of Jeff’s.
  • Jeff coming home early to read Prince Caspian to the kids before returning to an evening meeting.
  • Aslan.
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