- 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.