This is one of my middle of the night inspirations. I have been wanting to blog about one of the goals I had last year. I was hit with inspiration on what I wanted the photo to be. So here is just a hint to this upcoming blog post.
Join Project 52: Self Portraits
Lynda (from Daily Window) and I are not going to be putting up the linky anymore, but still want to invite you to participate in this project with us. I hope you will join us!
If you want to use the Project 52 badge feel free and grab it and use it on your post. You don’t have to do every week with us you can post just once even and you don’t have to follow the weekly theme either. We just hope that you will join us for some fun.
You may have read my post last week and you may not have. I want to share with you this weekend some of the gifts I have received from our gracious and amazing God. There have been so many that this list is incomplete, but I want to share with you some of the things I have given thanks for.
Little boy pretending that his sweatshirt is “High Shining Armor” running around with a fake helmet on.
Looking back at a video from March 2nd and seeing the weight that I have lost!
The bushes in front just about to bloom and share that amazing aroma that they give off when they open.
The sunshine coming to warm up the afternoon and free the boys from the house.
A chance to trust a little boy to take photos and enjoy the cute things he chose to capture (with his finger in each photo)
Random playdates with the neighbor
Little brother repeating what big brother says and does no matter what.
An evening drive to get ice cream
Watching the sunshine creep down our fence waiting for it to touch our yard and let the boys free
Watching littlest slide down the stairs on his tummy to “run” to get his treat
Licking the beater
A MIL who gives hubby and I a date night
Listening to big brother tell little brother all about the things he’s imagining them doing.
Big brother teaching little brother a new word, “Owl”
A sweet call from my husband giving me an early mother’s day present.
I’m a little behind on posts this week so I decided to combine my weight loss journey post with Project 52 and show you a picture of last month and this month.
I actually really hate both pictures and I wasn’t even going to share the one on the left even though I love the picture of my boy. On March 28th I weighed about 257 lbs and yesterday I weighed 250 so this is 7 lbs lost. I really don’t see much difference, my clothes may be a little looser, but that may be because I didn’t smooth my shirt down.
Join Project 52: Self Portraits
Lynda (from Daily Window) and I are not going to be putting up the linky anymore, but still want to invite you to participate in this project with us. I hope you will join us!
This month we are taking a break from themes, so just pull out your camera and start snapping your photo!!
If you want to use the Project 52 badge feel free and grab it and use it on your post. You don’t have to do every week with us you can post just once even and you don’t have to follow the weekly theme either. We just hope that you will join us for some fun.
I was reading a dear friends blog. Kari’s blog is in my “must read” folder on my reader, that is overflowing with too much too read, so that I don’t miss a post.
For this I’m so thankful for. For the other day she was writing about a book she was reading, One Thousand Giftsby Ann Voskamp.
For some reason I was thinking it was a devotional. Some reason I felt like I needed a devotional even though bible study was starting in only a week or so. But the way my friend described the book pulled me in and I quickly added it to my kindle wishlist and as soon as TJ came home I asked if I could buy it.
I was surprised to find that it was more of an autobiography, but her prose pulled me in quickly. When I figured out the meaning behind the title I wanted to know more. I wanted to know how she did it. I wanted to count my own gifts. I wanted her experience of seeing the world in a new light.
Then I started to count my gifts and my heart lightened and my world brightened.
Driving home from a job that is hard on my soul my eyes opened up. I looked out beyond the highway and saw the scattering of dark clouds that threatened rain and I thanked God for them. I thanked Him for the beauty of the sun rays that seeped through the cracks between those clouds. I found myself being filled with His love and His beauty and my heart was no longer heavy from the day.
I want to share my list with you, though I’m not sure how I will do this yet. If I will do as Kari is doing and post my list every weekend. I thought this would be a wonderful meme, but meme’s are so hard to build. I have also thought that creating blessings in images would be beautiful and even have started counting some of my blessings on my pinterest.com.
I stopped, I don’t know why, too busy to take a pause that is so important. But I’m starting over, I’ve been slowly adding it in and today I will share with you my gifts.
Waking in the middle of the night to rock my baby who had a bad dream
The feeling of his weight draped on me
Hearing him suck his thumb as he snuggles back into his blankets, he only needed a few minutes of love
Watching the light start seeping through the blinds as the morning dawned
A new day
Listening to the shower as my husband gets ready for his day
Being awake enough to say good bye to him
A little more sleep
Little boys who climb into my bed to snuggle
Listening to battle hymns being song by my little boy
Finding forgotten grapes in the bottom of the fridge
Little toddler “ank ooos”
Peanut Butter Sandwiches
Crossing things off my to do list
Listening to a toddler try singing with no words
A wonderful husband that lets me sneak out of the house for a little while to go thrift shopping after bedtime
God fills our lives with amazing little gifts that we forget to stop and thank him for, but I am going to take the time to pause and enjoy these moments, to count each one.
This summer we may be doing a book club at my church, maybe I will try and do a book club here also. Maybe I will do a dare to see who can count to a thousand with me. I’m not sure but I know that this book was an amazing life changer for me, so I hope you will read it!
Lynda (from Daily Window) and I are not going to be putting up the linky anymore, but still want to invite you to participate in this project with us. I hope you will join us!
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