thankful for more than just food.

• regular phone calls with beth
• a room full of ladies worshiping
• priscilla shirer's teaching
• "dad jokes" (puns)
• brownies!!!!!

• the retreat all came together
• chicken fingers & fries
• 125+ women gathered together to hear from God
• hearing how one lady heard God's voice for the first time
• scones...hot, fresh, delicious scones (in a wire basket to boot!)

• sunday runs with alison (and guest runners for the last part)
• 10 minute end of retreat clean up (many hands really do make lite work!)
• shea's tea - small gesture that was really really special and impactful
• no washers overflowed in my laundry experience tuesday (though one totally did in my experience today...but bubbles aren't so hard to clean up after all)
• the way nick and the kids had the cabin so neat and straight at the end of saturday
• delightful monday night dinner and mini-driving lesson with a treasured friend

• getting to share monday during mom's community group
• lunch time movie (and nap)
• the other kids' boxes from yaya and grandaddy arrived
• the best pain au chocolat yet 
• caroline's thoughts and writing