gifts gifts gifts
- emma's help with my thankful list
- island cabinets and drawers are in! (not quite done...but a million steps closer than we've been since about january)
- surprise starbucks and meaningful conversation with amy
- good reminders:
- so much happy slime making
- the box had another small t-shirt to send to april
- rob's hospitality and generosity
- bonus day on the bouncy house and bouncy water slide
- successful TA retreat
- community group. good food, rich discussion, authentic sharing and praying
- "you're just the kind of daughter i hoped i would have." - what a realization to have about my lovely caroline.
- caroline swimming in socks...just because.
- theological discussions in the car with an 8 year old, a 9 year old and a 10 year old
- yaya. i really love her.
- caroline's impersonation of eli's handstands...and how much it makes all of us laugh (eli included)
- good stuff from brene brown
- the girls' journals that we pass back and forth (and the thought that i'll get to have one with zoe)
- "your obedience to God's call can't be based on your own ideas or other's opinions of what you should do." -pam parish "ready or not" (foster care/adoption devotional)
- connecting with the lady at the post office in cataula (and how convenient to LJ's school and not too busy that post office is!)
- found it:
