gifts & presents & love
this is a long one...maybe i should've done a separate birthday thankful list....
- being in "equatorial West Africa" to see the solar eclipse
- dishwater running down my arms
- "where You are...I am free..." (that's why the dishwater was running down my arms)
- re-supply of stickers
- reformation party!
- salted caramel goodness
- learning (or at least attempting to learn) "thriller" with caroline
- cleaning up and cleaning out
- pizza with the Koontz family
- Twiga!
- sharing books
- painting magnets with my girls
- reading/thinking about things i've never thought about before
- having inside jokes (it's such a fun way to connect)
- moments so sweet you can't help but stop and soak them in
- a sweet big sister taking care of her little sister
- getting cashews at breakfast (and realizing that not everyone does)
- communion bread (in so many ways)
- birthday decorations
- soooooooooooo many wonderful words and thoughtful gifts
- a friend who knows i "collect" bouncy balls
- plantain chips on the door handle
- chicken & fries for lunch (thanks to erin)
- favorite facebook day of the year
- emma's birthday song & coloring for me
- eli's quick response to cleaning up the milk that his littlest sister spilt
- gretchen's willingness to run running club
- birthday prayers from my family
- tub o' cotton candy
- the gift of questions
- bucket o' cotton candy
- helicopter shooter things that light up...playing with them on the dock with my family
- cake!! delicious cake!!
- cake for breakfast
- Kactus cheeseburger
- cecily's hug
- little dutch shoes to hang on our christmas tree
- fabulous orange pen
- emma saying "boo-yah"
- the way God makes my birthday special year after year
- being on the same page/wavelength/whatever you call it as nick
- how God knows and takes care of the desires of my heart
- cupcakes on the 5th
- good news from the screening in brazzaville!
- tic-tac-toe with caroline
- really good quotes
- the merging of 2 "fonts" - so much so that it's hard to tell if i wrote it or if beth did
