Counting the Gifts...This Friyay

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Hey friends!

It's Fri-yay! 

Feels like it too in every which way!

This photo was in my memories today.  

It still gets me.  Where does the time go yall? 

My baby boys are all grown up into big strappin menfolk now.  

So today, I begin  counting  gratitudes with these three.

Thanks God for givin me a family to love and not only that but 

that they daily love me too.  I can even feel it! 

I always dreamed to get to be a wife and Mama.  

Back when other kids were reaching for the stars on career day at school;

my dream was to have a real family... 

You, O God gave me my desire .. real Stars and

 they call me Dollface, and  Mama. 

I'm so thankful for getting to raise these arrows.  

for: celebrating both our boys birthdays this week. 

And how the memories flood every year..

....Remembering how their stories began...

The miracle of watching my belly grow ...and stretch .. and the beauty of giving birth... that feeling like it was  gonna kill me with every contraction ... 

but the moment they came out and were placed across my chest... 

this love... just gushed from my  heart... this beautiful thrumming love and in one split 

second the little girl in me became  a fierce Mother Lion who would die to protect her cubs ...forever.

Thank you God for this blessing of motherhood.

Thank You for the first cup... and second... and third...

so frothy... thank you stevia and fat free milk... 

Didn't think i could ever love coffee without creamer... 

but once again... i was wrong. 

... for safety for Myguy when he's been traveling back n forth on jobs.  

every day... i pray a hedge around him and his big truck. 

Thank you God for bringing him home to me safe.   

... for faith in all this covid stuff with our business....  

and Cora's echo...Now faith Lea... that I can still hear her chanting often  in my ear..

"now" faith.  

I know it's the substance God...  of things I'm hopin for

and the evidence of things I can't see.  

You are in control.  

... for the covenant  that we are one and

 if it happens to you..

it happens to me.  

I feel stronger.  

... for wind on a hot day... that breeze... is a reprieve.  

... sharing a charcuterie board with little Francois... 

What a sweet joy... my companero. 

for strength to get up n down off a chair and ladder a hundred times painting...

and this one ole rusty  hip... didn't quibble too bad.  

I'm sooo thankful.

 In You I live and move and have my being. 

  

for an extrovert yellow swallowtail who

 let me have a photo shoot with her. 

Nature is so amazing!

Thank you God for sooooooooo many artistic things I get to enjoy

and my eyes to see it all.  

... for making my birthday boys their treats: Tony: scotcheroos and just now a strawberry cheesecake dessert

for Trento ...

and ...praying  prayers inside. 

They'll never know... 

but I know You heard God.  

Bless them and keep them Heavenly Father.. I know You love them even more than me.  

For: my  friend who told me this past week that she'd been crying and 

when I asked her why she said for you... missing your Addie.  

my heart... did somersaults that i get to have  a friend in  her.  

Thank You God. 

... and a sympathy card yesterday from another friend coz she knew 

how much a part of my life that little black dog was to me.  

Thank you God for luscious friendships... that care like these.

For the Formed app that has blessed my peapickin heart and 

the gift i know it is for me.  

Thanks God.  

For the big ole thunderclouds high in the sky today...

they're so beautiful!!!!!!!!!!... 

For this olde farmhouse that i get to live in and tend to... 

This place to call home sweet home.  

Thank you God for all these things and so much more...

thank you for my every thing. 

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