Friday's Fave Five #584

UPDATED with a pic of the rose geranium!

Hi again everyone.  How was your week?  Here at Friday's Fave Five we pause, look for and share 5 of our blessings from the last week.  No matter what kind of week we had.  Whether is was great, mediocre, quiet or crazy or just plain difficult.  We are working at developing the practice of intentionally looking at the blessings that God places into our lives.  Not all will be big and huge, some will be whisper quiet and some we will have to search for a little harder.  But the point is to train our selves to 1) Look for those blessings and 2) to be thankful for them big and small.  Please join us.  If you do a FFF post please feel free to link up.


~ Mother's Day ~  wow, this Mother's day was different from any other.  Not only with all the distancing making it difficult, but here it was also very chilly so we couldn't even really go sit outside with my Mom.  But there were still blessings to the day.  A nice telephone chat with my mom started the day.  Then the rest was totally relaxed.  PJ's, coffee, a nice long bath with a book to read was a treat as I rarely get to do that.  Online church, a phone call from my daughter and son in law in Saskatchewan, a live fb video call from my son who was just starting his shift at work.  Something that really blessed me was he took me on a video tour of his ambulance.  It was so interesting and I got to see "where" he works and how he does his job and some of the cool things that ambulances are fitted with.  Very fun for me.  My youngest came over and I threw a frozen lasagna in the oven.  It turned out to be a lovely day in spite of being very different from what I'm used to.


~ Dirty Chai Tea Latte ~ My new favorite discovery at the coffee shop.  I haven't been to St*rbucks since the whole isolating thing and when hubby asked if I wanted to get something in the drive thru I gave it a try.  And I'm hooked.

~Vanilla slice~ We took a little drive to the neighboring town to pick up and order of bread and I decided I'd treat myself to a vanilla slice.  I don't eat much dessert type stuff anymore but I really craved a slice of one of my favorites.  It was good to the last bite.  Wished I would have taken a picture for ya.  There are different versions but around here it's basically a layer of vanilla custard topped with a thick layer of whipped cream sandwiched between two layers of puff pastry topped with a pink icing drizzled with chocolate.  When I was a kid there also used to be a strip of raspberry jam in there but you can't find that around here anymore.

~ Rose Geranium ~ About 20 or more years ago I came across a pretty little geranium type called a rose geranium.  I have been looking for them since and have never been able to find them.  The other day hubby took me to a lovely garden nursery a little bit out of town and lo and behold they had them.  Hubby blessed me with four of them for my garden for Mother's Day.  I am so excited.  I just love the look of a whole bunch of tiny little rosebuds that makes up it's flower.  I can hardly wait to get them planted.

Not fully developed and bloomed out but here is a pic of  one of the flower heads of the rose geranium.  It will give you an idea of each individual little "flower" that makes up the head.

~ Dad's birthday ~ Yesterday was my Dad's 89th birthday.  Yesterday was also the day they started to allow minimal visiting at some senior residences in Alberta.  His was one of them.  So we jumped through all the hoops and got a 15 minute visit.  Masks were mandatory.  I was able to cook him one of his favorite dishes and take it to him.  The weather co-operated and we had some lovely sunshine.  And it was nice to at least get to look him in the eyes and wish him a happy birthday rather than just wave up to his 2nd story room while we stood outside!  It's the first time I got to see my Dad since the middle of March.

Bonus blessing:  The new release from my favorite author arrived in the mail and I can't wait to get to The Water Keeper by Charles Martin.

What were your favorite blessings from the last week?  Is your area opening up from isolation or lockdown yet?