Friday's Fave Fave #762

Hello everyone and welcome to Friday's Fave Five.  First off, thank you for your well wishes last week.  I'm feeling much better this week and glad to be back to looking for my blessings and being thankful for them.  Please join us as we intentionally develop hearts and eyes that take note of the good gifts, large and small, that God brings to us.  

~ birthday dinner ~ last week was hubby's birthday and as is tradition, his sister and her husband  took us out for dinner with the restaurant being his choice.  The food was delicious, the company fun.  It was nice to catch up.  We don't see them often anymore but we always make a point of getting together for all of our birthdays.

~ weekend in Calgary ~  I'm so very glad I started to feel better by the weekend.  Good enough to be able to keep our plans to go to Calgary.  We were on a waiting list to work at the Operation Christmas Child warehouse inspecting and getting the shoebox gifts ready to be shipped off to children around the world.  It's one of both me and my hubby's favorite things to work at together.  Unfortunately we never did get called.  But we still had a lovely couple of days with 2 of our kids.  Still celebrating Hubby's birthday, the kids took him out for his favorite dish (Spaghetti with Browned Butter and Mizithra Cheese) at an Italian restaurant.  We hit up our favorite farmer's market and also attended a huge International Christmas Market that has over 400 booths and vendors. It was a nice weekend getaway.

~ movie evenings ~ Hubby wanted a couple of movies for his birthday so we enjoyed a few evenings of watching them together.  I don't usually go for alien thrillers but I did happen to enjoy this one, A Quiet Place and A Quiet Place Part II.  We kind of laughed after because we thought we probably enjoyed them because the storyline involves the people who survive the alien attack can never make a sound and so there was not a bunch of swearing that these kinds of movies usually have that we had to endure. LOL. But amazingly, though there was hardly any talking in the film it was definitely tense and edge of your seat from beginning to end of both part I and part II and definitely kept our attention..   I kind of really liked the characters, great acting and the part of the daughter is actually played by a deaf actress who did a wonderful job.  

~ commitment free evenings ~  because of whatever cold virus I got, when we came home from the busy weekend I cancelled all other activities for the week and just stayed home.  I felt pretty good in the day when working but by night time I was feeling pretty tired and could feel the head cold symptoms hitting harder.  It was nice to just have nowhere to be, drink hot tea and read a book.  It's taken me a long time to learn that sometimes I just have to say no, guilt free.

~ good ol' Vick's ~  this week I have been very thankful for that jar of VapoRub.  It's helped me to at least get some sleep in the night.  It was a staple in my Mom's medicine cabinet and it is in mine too.  A small yet very appreciated blessing this week for me.  What did people do before all these products that we just take for granted?  

What were your favorite blessings from the week?