This week, I’m focusing on a lot of things that I’m thankful for. Please, in the comments, share even the smallest gifts that you’ve noticed today. family gathering together using event planning experience for good old, classic 50s music a vehicle that gets me place to place being a reference for friends looking for jobs bursting with ideas late into the night a notebook and pen on the nightstand serving at church in areas I love being able to blog going through my blog and re-living the past two years digital scrapbooks my day planner winkflash – keeping photos stored in one location a fresh look at an old novel using...
100 Gifts Week – Of lip balm and family photos
This week, I’m focusing on a lot of things that I’m thankful for. Please, in the comments, share even the smallest gifts that you’ve noticed today. a reminder to stop complaining and give thanks instead pomegranates on sale a clean kitchen at the end of a long day soothing lip balm reliving grandparent’s life through photos a husband to put out fires (literally) feeling guilt-free about skipping a work out cheesy bread. enough said. funny t-shirts social media consulting for family relying on prayer encouraging others good news to start the weekend sharing good news with others being excited for friend’s new possibilities helping out on homework feeling okay with being...
100 Gifts Week – Of salad bars and sunny days
This week, I’m focusing on a lot of things that I’m thankful for. Please, in the comments, share even the smallest gifts that you’ve noticed today. caffeine spell check salad bars space heaters cherry coke zero a perfect haircut new books in the mail multiple twitter account chaos follow notices in email inbox good old songs to pick me up a surprising sunny day short-lived colds reminders from above pumpkins – everything about ’em 50 years of marriage to celebrate clean CAT scans fulfilling sleep fondue nights with family flexible work schedules an understanding boss I’ve kept a (fairly) regular gifts journal ever since my friend, Caitlin Muir, began doing her Thankful...
100 Gifts Week – Of writing pens and journals
This week, I want to focus on a lot of things that I’m thankful for. I’ve kept a (fairly) regular gifts journal ever since my friend, Caitlin Muir, began doing her Thankful Thursday posts in the style of Ann Voskamp‘s One Thousand Gifts. If you haven’t heard of or read One Thousand Gifts, do so – now. This week, I’m going to share some of the gifts I’m ever grateful for. I won’t even attempt for 1000 in one week, but I’ll share 100 over the course of five days. Please, in the comments, share even the smallest gifts that you’ve noticed today. Bible study group a simple mailer God’s...
Confession about being content and grateful
I have to be completely honest – I’m an overacheiver. A perfectionist. I constantly want more. So this year one of my main goals was to drive more traffic to my blog and get more comments and interactions. I really haven’t gotten much more – but I’m getting more and more comments from YOU, my loyal friends and blog readers. And I am so thankful for YOU. I realized today that if no one else reads my blog for the rest of eternity except YOU, I’m content with that. I will still strive to write what comes to my heart and share my writing journey, but my head is clear....