more and more.

• "the record keeper" by Charles Martin
• Wednesday afternoon cheerleading in our living room
• all went well with the parent-less passport renewals for eli and caroline
• Eli and Eli and Emma and Garrett playing at the table

• fabulous breakfast and conversation with lane saturday morning
• having lane and laura lane around for a few days.  i like 'em.
• everything came together for the first cityscape "fall family fun day" 
• good truth:

• grilled chicken and veggies for the week
• my dad's generosity towards eli's impact fund
• whatever was going on with the pilot wasn't a big deal to fix 
• opportunity to participate:

• laughing at our staff meeting
• "what do we need to know as we parent this child?" really good new-to-me listening prayer question
• 3 nights in a row of easy peasy bedtime for zoe
• building back trust little by little

sweet sweet gifts

• feminine fridays and brave events and lord of the wings (all incredible TA and Velocity events for my kiddos!)
• celebrating amy t's 3000 hours! 
• laughing with caroline and nick about the 401K and porridge jokes
• knowing and trusting that God has good plans to provide for eli and impact 360
• the view from our window thursday evening

• GA football + lemon pepper wings + caroline
• lifeline banquet.  God is up to so much good...it's good to be reminded (and that keynote speaker was something special ;))
• journal prompts with emma
• there's always food for sharing 
• fabulous girls creatively ziplining 

• beautiful breathe event (and i didn't burn down the church)
• hammock hanging weather
• little thursday morning service project + friendship + coffee + doughnuts
• boots that are brave and beautiful (definitely not talking about shoes here)
• girls hanging in hammocks reading 

• all the ways nick loves me (specifically this week by doing the dishes and taking out the trash and making our bed)
• molly's cranberry coffee cake. oh my. 
• emma and zoe are feeling better
• praying for friends at ancient way farms
• lane and laura lane are here!!

looking for (and recording) the goodness

• putting pictures in the blog post is working again (falls in a well, her eyes go crossed, gets kicked by a mule, they go back to normal...i don't know.)
• Land of Color 
  
• saturday lunch
• the cottage floors are all done (and done early!) 
• pretty girl in a pretty dress...and goggles. 

• SSI dates are available in July
• maddie's excellence with OCC Shoeboxes
• 50 shoeboxes taken to be filled up 
• delightful saturday morning
• choosing to rejoice in God's strength...

• blow up unicorn outfit and all the laughter 
• "looking for the goodness."
• such good cups of coffee accompanied by biscoff
• zoe played happily during CityGroup
• fun and fabulous rend collective show.  so much fun.  so much energy. so worshipful.  

• impromptu backyard cake party tuesday afternoon
• nick cooked dinner! (and cleaned up!)
• such meaningful conversation on the porch
• favorite impact 360 pen/highlighter combo
• emma's hair coloring abilities (and the way it's captivating the whole crowd of kids)

2 weeks worth...

what i would have posted last week if i had internet (and access to a computer)

• got everything done on thursday with 30 minutes to spare
• coffee & biscotti in the back on the flight (channelling my inner lane)
• all the travel went well/easy/no significant delays
• "nice people make our job nicer." - flight attendent
• downtown abby movie with nick 
• friends who pray
• all the smiles (here are 2) during bumper cars, skating, latin dancing and shuffleboard

• live music
• early bedtime, deep sleep
• breakfast in (on) the bed
• perfectly rainy walk about juneau

• red bull boxcar races
• canary island level churros
• just the right number of books for the trip
• anytime i find a jebco mailbox

• all the wonderful africa mercy memories that were stirred up by being on a ship
• watching king richard
• listening to john mark comer's sermon series on sabbath
• all wrapped up enjoying our balcony

• scattergories and bananagrams and dutch blitz...with beautiful views
• lovely day in victoria.  such incredible flowers!  
• so much wonderful time with nick

• yaya and amy's willingness to keep kiddos

And this week's

• eli was accepted to Impact 360! (that was the exciting phone call from caleb referenced in the last list...but he didn't know the good news yet so i didn't want to post it on here)
• an entire saturday where my 2 goals were to hold zoe and watch the UGA game
• sweet & meaningful time around chris and jennifer's table
• zoe happily spent the night with the whites
• because she spent the night with the whites i was able to go for a lovely run on mountain brook

• delicious and wonderful and purposeful dinner with nick and emma
• "that's what savings are for."  neither nick nor i freaked out about having to use so much of our savings to purchase not 1 but 2 new AC Units
• boxes of hand me overs from melissa...ship friends continuing to bless us
• a house full of moms and kids tuesday morning
• so very delightful walk with lauren
• 4 days in a row of seeing molly!
• kiddos outside painting all the things (rocks, pinecones, leaves....)

• zipline workouts & laughter...kids being brave (and hanging on!)
• new to us cuisanart coffee part (and the fun saga behind it)
• walking in to a kitchen full of teenagers worshipping together
• refreshing staff meeting
• new roof is pretty much covered by insurance
• water issue in the cottage was an easy fix
• edwards electric worked on the driveway lights
• arrow exterminators are fabulous
• boxes of stuff getting where they belong
• carey called!