God's given me such wonderful people....such wonderful gifts

• nick is home!
• amanda's help with hair 
• her dress matched the car (and they had a great time at prom!)

• fun & fabulous date night...appetizer AND dessert!!! 
• keys were found (airtag here we come)
• super skyjo

• fun times on the ride home from trey's baseball game
• giftcards! 
• zinnias are planted!

• diva kindness
• caroline's crutching skillz (and watching zoe jump in to serving her sister)
• trucks coming and going...stuff coming and going....

• troubleshooting the eero (?!) worked!
• faithful friends
• cottage guest who brought a box of goodies from her bakery!!! (check out Magnolia Sweets in Blakely, GA!)

• great mixed media class
• caroline is home! another semester successfully completed.
• emma's help in the nursery sunday morning

• cabinets are in and painted
• electrical stuff is all taken care of
• pantry shelves are in
• we've got our stuff back!

flowers and floors and friends (among other things)

•  sunday afternoon time on the picnic blanket...notes, book, rest
• charades and games with jacob & emma
• the beautiful flowers i forget about

• it all worked out with the bacon (oh the teamwork making the dreamwork)
• quiet after all the noise
• the goslings i didn't know about

• cottage bookings 
• those concession stand cheeseburgers. 
• sweet friends and the ending of a sweet soccer season

• "hearing from God" discussion at citygroup
• Palm of Your Hand song
  
• the difference a scone can make 

• canvases from cvs are done
• reminder to magnify the positive and minimize the negative 
• room full of lovely ladies at midtown coffee.  loving having breathe there. 

• fun finds for zoe (and grace) at cvs
• all the play-doh is in one place
• these 2 and their willingness to make cake cups for a certain upcoming wedding (and do trial runs!!)

• hannah's eagerness to share and bless
• boar's head meat + cheese + pickles
• we have floors again!!

• publix popcorn
• JMo's card + SBucks giftcard
• BEAUTIFUL flowers from nick. 

• guys showed up to keep working on the house
• coolness of the mornings
• throwing stuff away. 

some of the gifts.

• nick passed his AFT with flying colors 
• hearing pine cove people on the daily devo 
• these 2 and their delight in opening wedding gifts that have come the past couple of months (the oven mitts were a BIG HIT)

• sickness doesn't last 
• watching the movie wonder (it's officially in the top 5)
• these 2 mowing the grass

• celebrating jacob's senior night at soccer
• car wash!
• the way she makes me laugh

• getting to facetime with caroline
• jenn v's texts and check ins
• cabinets are back in place-ish and the floor has been "leveled" (just need it to completely dry out before the actual flooring can be put down)

• consolation & desolation at MIC (grown up version of high/low)
• klaus kindness - a dehumidifier AND baked ziti.  what a combo. 
• the flooring is in the pantry for whenever the leveler stuff dries out

• the way AB checked on Jo to make sure he was ok before attending to her own busted lip/mouth
• sarah r.'s label making skillz
• zoe took herself and a picnic blanket and bread for the turtles (which ended up going to the geese) down to the pond for a bit (while dressed all in white like her polar bear)

• made it through our "stay away from the house" monday
• He has GOOD plans (+ doxology)
  
• just right dinner with a just right friend. 

• the excellence of ann maura  - she's easy to listen to and such a great teacher
• pizza sub and authentic conversation
• a room full of folks learning more about TBRI...becoming better parents/caregivers/people.

•  prayers on mountain brook
• "i got it at ross" song (makes me very happy that my dress for eli's wedding came from ross!)
• little coffee + giftcards for monday + treats for a friend...all from midtown coffee

oh the gifts!

• clement arts let us borrow their chalkboard sign
• good friday services at cityscape
• emma's help with the easter sign

• your pie with wonderful people
• getting to talk about theo of golden
• zoe's nature drawing book

• texas roadhouse rolls (and family dinner!)
• celebrating wil 
• drumline live with nick!!

• shea & lacey and their new dog!
• easter meal & egg hunt at mama suzanne's
• 2 sweet sisters sleeping 

• easter morning walk/run (even w/o the sunrise)
• all the laughter at staff meeting
• post-easter egg hunt egg emptying

• dress shopping at ft. benning
• giovanni and his team getting stuff done! (the ceiling, the walls, the trim, some of the cabinets)
• my car is in the carport for the first time in months!

• time with yaya (bk treat!)
• the heart and mission and beauty of rivendell 
• jess ray on a thursday night in columbus! 

• the best weather
• empanadas and cake pops - for enjoying and for sharing! 
• easter sunday! 

• getting to go to athens for the day
• trader joe's treats
• the perfect twirl (and the daddy who captured it)

• so many good podcasts
• laughing about the "grasshopper" video
• rearranging zoe's room

 

our God is ridiculously generous.

• the electrician(s) came (and the one guy that got shocked is just fine)
• the efficiency of the trash guys on the beach - they have a system and it is working. 
• reminders of God's faithfulness on the way back into c-town

• tanner olson's "ready to live" (love it when someone puts my feelings into words perfectly)
• dry wall (sheet rock?) supplies delivered (not sure any delivery has brought tears like that one did!)
• time at the beach with these 3...and all the others!

• amy & wil's connection to sandy & paul (and getting to stay at their place)
• molly's cottage care and lauren's kitty care 
• the views...so many gorgeous views. 

• swimming in "our" pool
• the delight on zoe's face when nick let her pick something at the store (good reminder that an immediate "yes" can be a good thing!)
• caroline's food truck :) (not really....just a cute slogan that reminds me of her!)

• toasted raisin bread and coffee with the most beautiful view (x3)
• getting to read so much
• girl in a mermaid swimsuit eating lunch in a hot tub with a view

• rb&g podcast...talking about raising capable kids...and how nervous is normal (nerves are courage knocking at the door!)
• kind people who pay attention to my kiddos
• this book:

• pizza on the balcony
• coffee on the beach
• stunning sunset

• dinner with yaya
• the guy on the stilts getting it done at our house! 
• hannah's impromptu BK picnic surprise

He is SO GOOD and gives so many GOOD GIFTS.

• looking through the camera roll and being reminded that there is SO MUCH to be thankful for
• evening ride on a pretty road with the top down and with lovely girls

• yaya's help (and determination!) with dress shopping!! what a gift she is. 
• the skies doing their thing of declaring the goodness and glory of God 

• when the Lord says things that need to be said (in way better ways than i could ever say them)...and people listen.  
• tuesday treat that spills on over into wednesday

• we're having good friday services at CityScape! 
• PROGRESS HAS BEEN MADE.  still a long way to go...but a step or two has been taken towards our house getting put back together. 

• i got the capp blast. the day called for it. and it was very tasty. 
• beth's beautiful artwork with Ancient Way's verse on it 

• finally finished immortal nicholas
• pedicures with caroline

• having eli here for spring break
• kind kind words from LLcoolJM in a very pun-ny card

• sending thank you notes.  i really like it. 
• breath as prayer book. so much goodness inside. 

• getting to go to jacob's soccer games
• TIME with this precious daughter...lots of walks...tasty food...meeting her friends...getting to be at Redeemer...laughing at new girl...not going to goat yoga....in PJs by 7 (and then back out of them to go get icecream)...getting to see her current room and next year's house....seeing and knowing that she is doing SO WELL

all is grace.

• tasty inexpensive food at mercedes benz stadium!
• tough but GOOD conversations
• fun times at the atlanta united match

• walking around Georgia Tech
• so much laughter at Breathe.  (hearing about amy at aldi was especially entertaining)
• "better" - even a little bit....it's beautiful. 
• the hair do of the week.  so lovely. 

• meetings and movement in regards to the reconstruction situation (and a 2nd "sample" of the flooring...thank you, Lord!)
• prayer reminder alarms 
• good meeting at harvest
• simple sacred moments 

• an unexpected day at home
• jersey mike's with eli 
• seeing pictures from "Camp Cash"
• how much a tank of gas means to my kids