• Blowing bubbles in the sunshine, kids running here and there chasing floating globes.
  • Sitting with Heidi, silently forming playdough, cutting stars, lining them up along the table. It’s great to have a girl.
  • Sipping decaf tea in the late afternoon.
  • Kids sick, still sick. Still homebound and still enjoying it.
  • A free gift, like a grace.
  • Justice and mercy.
  • Your kind words.
  • Connections, real connections, the 3-D kind.
  • Filling in my blank.
  • Local fryers on sale.
  • Tiny green shoots, growth, emerging from the soil.
  • Hating hating hating discipline, knowing knowing knowing it’s the right thing to do.
  • My first “workout” after six months. Oh deary I’m out of shape! But so good to start back up!
  • A friend, “Can I bring you dinner tonight?” Umm… yes!
  • Heidi’s starfish hands carefully rolling out playdough, intent, absorbed, creating.
  • Wooden rolling pin.
  • Billowy clouds, brilliant blue sky.
  • Whole house filled with aroma of roasting chicken.
  • “Chance” encounters.
  • Eight beautiful smiling faces at morning prayer.
  • Sunshine!
  • Snuggled next to my 4-year-old self-proclaimed “shark scientist” watching ocean documentaries.
  • A glimpse of summer! Warm sun, kids in swimsuits, kiddie pool filled with water. Splashing, laughing,
  • Blowing bubbles.
  • Heidi trying to blow bubbles, putting soapy wand up to her mouth then pressing her lips through the ring, blowing. Pulls her face away, face scrunched up in disgust as soap lines her lips.
  • Washing the car. Letting Dutch hold the spraying hose. Something distracted him and in classic kid fashion he turned his whole body to look, completely unaware, and sprayed me straight in the face.
  • Daddy coming home early.
  • Fresh produce.
  • Stepping Up.
  • Free lunch.
  • A welcome rainy day to water all the new vinca we planted.
  • Setting all my tiny seedlings out in the sun, little green shoots with faces upturned to the sky, happy.
  • Heidi wearing sunglasses.
  • A blessed day out with my friend and discipler of almost 13 years.
  • Looking eye-to-eye with a boy who I saw born. How can he be almost 11 already?
  • Dutch in seventh heaven hanging with “the big boys.”
  • Curry chicken salad, apples, pears and almonds. Yum!
  • Date night at home with my man: Planting over a hundred little seed starts for our vegetable garden. Standing side by side, dirt under our fingernails, sipping tea, miracle of life.
  • Sleepytime tea.
  • Morning walk in the rain.
  • Farm fresh eggs.
  • Feeling like a celebrity for a day! Free lunch at a fun restaurant, treated to coffee and a deluxe car wash and a spa pedicure by a generous friend. Then, beautiful dinner out with two lifelong friends. I kept shaking my head and thinking, “who’s life is this??”  So fun.
  • So thankful for my man who invested in our kids as I was away.
  • Thankful to come back to “real life” and hang in my sweats with my kids playing Legos on the floor. This is my life and I love it.
  • Sitting at a table with two friends, known more than 20 years. There’s nothing quite like a shared history….
  • Wilted spinach salad with goat cheese and prosciutto. Whoa! So good.
  • Blast Burger quarter pounder with fresh cut fries and a few sips of an oreo milkshake. So unhealthy. So delicious.
  • Settling into bed Friday night, reflecting on an amazing week packed with relational gifts. Gifts with skin. The best kind.
  • Bedside lamp.
  • Friends who cheer.
  • Possibilities.
  • Perspective.
  • Life.

3 thoughts on “Week's end with thanks”

  1. Yes! Yes! Yes! Adorn, transparent women, Elizabeth, Psalm 136.. “For His lovingkindness is everlasting” repeated 26 times!!!
    My ole kitty Penny who loves me as I am.
    A new and beautiful friend who listens to a crazy ‘readers digest’ this is my life! Really Kari Patterson, keep sharing your heart with us. It is ageless in its appeal and charm and well it just makes me SMILE!

  2. Oh, and ageless in wisdom. Yup you are charming, but girl, you have wisdom beyond your years:)

    1. Oh Debra you are way too kind to me, girl. But I love you SOO. Heidi LOVES her unicorn stickers! 🙂 We still need to talk about your blog! I pray you have a blessed day tomorrow–drive and enjoy God’s creation, as beautiful as you!
      Love you,
      K

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