Welcome to Friday's Fave Five. This is the place to take a pause from our busy and ordinary everyday lives and look back over the week to notice those things that bring blessing to to days. It doesn't have to be something big and obvious, most likely it will not be. But in developing the habit of noticing our blessings no matter what we are going through helps us to maintain perspective. When we're in the thick of it blessings can escape us and life looks darker and harder. By choosing to notice blessings from God, and taking the time to be thankful for them, it will help to carry us when days are tougher. Please join us.
~ Thanksgiving ~ I love the Thanksgiving holiday. It doesn't have the crazy commercialism of Christmas (though don't get me wrong, I love Christmas too). In Canada, Thanksgiving is far enough away from Christmas that we can really focus on what this day is meant to be. I love the gathering of family and friends, the traditional and sometimes not so traditional foods, the thanksgiving for all those blessings being forefront.
~ safe travels ~ because all my kids travel to come see us I'm always so very thankful for the safe travels of all of them. Whether it's the two hour drive two of them do or the 6+ hour drive the third one has to do, I'm so thankful when they come walking in the door safe and sound or when I get that txt saying they made it home.
~ helping hands ~ this Sunday will be the kick off to Operation Christmas Child at our church. This year I put out the call for help to my ladie's bible study to come a half hour early to study to help me put the boxes together. With 7 of us there we were able to snap all the boxes together in that short time and started our bible study right one time. So thankful for willing hearts and hands. It would have taken me a couple of hours to do it myself.
~ volunteer shift confirmed ~ our requested shift at the Operation Christmas Child processing center was confirmed and I'm so excited. Plans are afoot for our weekend in Calgary where the center is. I love participating in every step of the shoebox journey.
~ pizza party with Mom ~ this year my sis and I decided that this time for Thanksgiving instead of having both our families all at the same time to dinner with Mom we would break it up into two groups. Mom is 92 and sometimes when we are all there the conversation swirls around her instead of her being a participant and we wondered if it would just be too exhausting for her. Everything just all depends on how she is feeling that particular day. So we thought less people at once might make it easier on her and it would give her two visits instead of one. Saturday was my family's day to visit and we decided to take in pizza. She was so happy. She visited so much more with less people and she loved the pizza. Monday my sister's family took in a Turkey dinner casserole which I heard was delicious too. So I think we made a good decision.
~ helpful hubby ~ once again I am so thankful for Hubby's helpfulness. My car had a recall on it to fix some minor issue, I can't even remember what it was, but he was the one who took the car to the appt and picked it up again for me when it was done. Takes so much pressure off. When you have a home based child care it is so difficult to make it anywhere for these kinds of appointments because the hours are longer than a lot of businesses.
What blessings are you thankful for this week?