Friday's Fave Five #697

Happy September and welcome to Friday's Fave Five.  Hard to believe it's September as we are in yet another heat wave in my area.  Technically it really is still summer for 3 more weeks, so I shouldn't be too surprised, but in my mind fall officially starts September 1st.  But at any rate, no matter the weather, we are here to intentionally look for and share some blessings God has brought into our everyday lives.  So please join in with us in being grateful and giving thanks.

~ a perfect Sunday ~  last Sunday was a perfect day in my books!  A relaxed start to the morning sipping coffee and reading my book.  Then church where a very timely and encouraging message was delivered.  The weather was absolutely gorgeous, warm without being overly hot so right after church we decided to delay lunch and instead go to the river bottom for a walk before it got too hot.  There was no wind and the river actually looked like glass reflecting the trees on the other side.  Haven't seen that too often.  Then we came home and had a lovely late lunch of bbq chicken and gnocchi with pesto and relaxed the rest of the day.  

~ book declutter ~  I had 20 minutes of time where I wanted to go through something, anything in the house, and do a little declutter so I chose to go through my books I haven't read yet.  I set a timer so I wouldn't dawdle and tackled the boxes and piles.  I just asked myself with each book "In all seriousness, am I ever going to really pick this up and read it".  If I couldn't decide I read a page or two to see if I like the writing style and decided from there.  In all, I decluttered about a dozen books.  Pretty proud of myself.  There were some surprises in the pile but I have no regrets and haven't had the urge to bring them back out of the donate box in the car.  Some little libraries are going to get some good books!

~ workday sleep in ~ yesterday no kids were arriving until 10:30 so in a super rare occurence I got to sleep in on a workday and ease into my morning rather than waking to a buzzing alarm and hitting the floor running.  I wish every workday started at this time.  I'm so not a morning person.  Thankful I had this day.

~ healthy snacking ~ a new favorite snack.  A healthy trail mix that actually tastes really good.

~ dinner success ~ my neighbor gifted me a large zucchini and I knew right away I wanted to make zucchini boats for dinner out of it.  I'm not really a baker, my hubby doesn't eat sweets, but I do love zucchini incorporated into dinner somehow.  I had some left over caesar salad dressing from a salad we had for takeout earlier in the week so I thought maybe a chicken caesar zucchini boat.  But I couldn't find a recipe.  So I made one up.  And it turned out to be a big success.  It was so good.  We dug into it before I even thought to take a picture.  I'll share the recipe next week.  

What were your favorite blessings from last week?