desires granted...gifts given...

• successful week at VBS...smooth check in and check out
• emi.  what a great addition to the cityscape team. 
• precious girl dancing and spinning in the rain (not going to work was a good choice)

• the island is back!!! with handles...and a perfect fitting organizer tray. 
• honest conversations. no matter how hard. 
• we have our own magic bullet!

• "Are you not seeing how your desires are being granted in what He's ordaining." yes we are. 
• family making the effort to be here
• mr. & mrs. eli cash!

• little bit of swimming before the rain
• hair dos and make up and a live painting courtsey of amanda
• such an incredible "kitchen & drinks & trash" team.  truly spectacular. 

• everything came together for the rehearsal dinner!  so grateful for all the help and hands and contributions. 
• colds don't last
• perfect place for a wedding rehearsal...and a wedding

• no rain friday or saturday! 
• lantern prayers and releasing them worked!
• caroline's hip is still doing well!  found a place for the follow up MRI...maybe she'll stop by trader joe's :) 

practicing gratitude

bullet points weren't showing up...but then they did (?)... so we'll have bullet points and dashes

• --not having to go home on saturday
• --friends who are like family
• --sunrise WALK on the beach with caroline

• --i belong to jesus
• --steak dinner
• --our favorite lighthouse

• --manicures/pedicures courtesy of aunt amy
• --frosty's cheeseburgers and peach shake 
• --beautiful trees

• --tasty leftovers
• --magic bullet smoothies in fancy glasses (and lots of "cheers"ing)
• --the way aunt amy loves her neices and nephews (all of us, really)

• --facials and all sorts of other things with laura lane
• --rides (and drive bys) in the jeep, moo cow icecream
• --ALL the fun on the ocean mat...especially the "name that animal" game

• --seeing jupiter and venus
• --couple of days with logan at the beach
• --papa feeding the birds

• --all the things lined up (house, cottage, yard, pool, etc.)
• --having a hard time deciding which is my favorite - time under the tent, time on the porch or time around the table
• --we made the papers! :) 

• --never enough time at SSI with the mcmichaels, powells & cashs
• --what the next few days hold
• --sunday morning at SSI community church

• --knowing how to get our CFA order quickly at the tifton CFA
• --beautiful flowers in a beautiful bottle
• --eli's enjoyment of digging and sitting in the hole 

• --getting there with the camp empower buddies!
• --dulce dough (it can't not make the list)
• --kayaking adventures

• --hearing about margaret's car "todd"
• --"the practice of gratitude and hope will change your emotional life." - nancy on that's sounds fun podcast
• --nick's volcanoes on the beach

choosing a grateful attitude

• cracker barrel giftcards and yaya's points
• slept pretty much the whole way to SSI
• moonrise

• special place with special people
• night 1 crab trap
• epworth...chimes...family...spontaneous cornhole....

• nick's dedication to getting and delivering dulce dough
• good cuppa coffee at community church
• incredible kitty (+) care from the kind and generous llcooljm (with daily pictorial updates)

• zoe roundabouting the tree
• bike ride(s) with caroline
• first zinnia!

• ben's quick responses
• big ole sam's haul
• best porch view

• beach naps and reads and walks and sits
• easy smoothies
• pastor nick doing a little post-church preaching

• how much zoe loves "the sea"
• skip balls and ocean mats
• just write liturgies from EMH

• meals around the table at the thompson cottage
• windy walks
• epworth sunsets...porpoises included 

• wind that takes the gnats away
• ice + cherry coke + yeti (again and again and again)
• continuing to choose a grateful one

• the blood medleyed with washed
  
• sweet little beach reads
• the glory (and simplicity) of sweet mama's (and decades of sonny's delights)