Category Archives: Thankful Tuesday
Donut-7 Rocket Thankful
Oh, friends. I’m writing this on Monday night. It’s 9:15 and Chris and I have finally sat down, exhausted. It’s been one of those emotional nights of demanding children, erupting tantrums, long efforts to love, snuggle and get our emotional … Continue reading
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Thanking: rain and swim lessons, light-up shoes and Epiphany
This boy who loves his new swim class. (And the husband who spends Saturday morning with him in the indoor YMCA pool.) Rainy Mondays full of purpose. A walk from the Target parking lot to the grocery parking lot. In … Continue reading
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New Year Thankful
For these boys in red on Christmas night. Christmas with them is always Christmas at home. Finally living in a place where people eat their black-eyed-peas for good luck on New Year’s. (It’s almost impossible to find black-eyed peas in … Continue reading
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Thankful Tuesday: Christmas Travel Edition!
Having a friend like Jamie in Austin, who was up all night with her 4-month-old and still willing to drive us to the airport at 4:30 am. Yay for friends who love us Boys who go to sleep on airplanes … Continue reading
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Pancakes, baby kindness, cards addressed, Mary ‘[curled] in a brown pod’
And the list goes on… Listening to Chris Hohorst (Chris Hohorst!) making up a song with August at bedtime: “I’m in the nook! I’m in the reading nook!” How my baby holds his blankey to my face or his pacifier … Continue reading
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Advent Thankful
A Thankful Tuesday List: Two candles lit on the Advent wreath. Quiet morning coffee in the light of the Christmas tree. The Playmobile Nativity Mary and Lightning McQueen going for a ride in the Spy Plane together. My four Pandora … Continue reading
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After the trip: Thankful
There’s no one with whom I would rather spend 20 hours in the car (Wednesday and Sunday combined, mind you) than my husband. Isn’t it amazing that I still like him so much, especially when the back seat is full … Continue reading
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Thanksgiving Thankful Tuesday: 2 Trees, 2 Lists, and Poem
Our family has been making our Thankful Tree over the past couple of weeks. This year I was inspired by the tree (above) that I found on Pinterest. So I tried to be more crafty-ribbons and real twigs-but we all know … Continue reading
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Katniss, Katy Perry and my cat: a Thankful Tuesday list
Post-church Hohorst-famous pancakes with friends. Realizing on the way home from Writer’s Group last night that I was alone in the car and I should definitely roll the window down, turn the radio up as loud as I could stand, … Continue reading
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…because they are so grateful
Finding this on Ann Voskamp’s wonderful blog: “I doubt that there is such a thing as a measure of spirituality —but if there is, gratitude would be it. Only the grateful are paying attention. They are grateful because they pay … Continue reading
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