finding the sustaining loveliness of God's presence each day...

• having a good book to read (just makes life better)
• emma's french fry cutting 
• getting stuff taken care of saturday morning
• good stuff from eugene peterson: 

• He leads me on for His name's sake (not mine)
• "relentless, restlessness within my soul calling me onwards, upwards and inwards to Yourself." - lectio 365
• mr. byrd is all done...and he did a good job!
• zoe's enjoyment of the dot-to-dots

• SWEET MAMA's!!! sonny's delights, cheese danish and a cinnamon roll all straight from the island of st. simon.  (yay for nick being in brunswick on saturday morning and being able to catch the mama of sweet before she closed)
• easy fix to the wells' internet 
• lots of porch time...this weather is so nice
• beautiful sisters enjoying the sunshine

• everybody made it back home safely from all the places (nick at drill in savannah, caroline at YL sharptop cove, eli in atlanta go-carting)
• everything worked out just fine picking up emma from dance
• nick's all-around-awesomeness...especially his kind response to the frustrating text that came just as date night was supposed to start.  he's wonderful. 
• good stuff:

• tuesday morning full of moms and kids and yummy treats
• peace and contentment.  truly gifts. 
• the woman in the gospels who "gave extravagantly what she couldn't afford...she gave her all" 
• sweet little girl wearing a kindergarten graduation dress from 1987

•  getting to see caroline play soccer! 
• "doxology is the only appropriate response." - celebration of discipline 
• lots of moments to practice doxology! 
• "couldn't have asked for a better report" from my dad's appointment