Friday's Fave Five #778

Welcome to Friday's Fave Five.  Thanks everyone for your well wishes for my Mom.  She is still in hospital so the week has still been hectic and tiring.  But I didn't want to miss another week of intentionally looking for blessings in my everyday, put there by God to uplift me.  This is so important for me especially with the more hectic, busy and stressful couple of weeks.  I can tend to get apathetic when overwhelmed, literally just sitting in a stupor staring at the computer or tv.  This weekly intentional discipline is just what I need to keep me on track to noticing the good things and being grateful.  

~ gorgeous weekend ~ last week the weather here was simply stunning.  Sunny and 19*C (66*F).  I was so good to feel that sunshine and warmth.  We've had a very warm winter comparatively speaking, but it was still winter.  It actually felt like spring.  So much so that I washed and packed away all my heavy winter sweaters and took out light spring coats.  But alas, yesterday was the first of four days of predicted continuous spring snow fall.  Good thing I didn't pack up everything.  But last weekends warmth makes me happy to know that in just awhile that will be an everyday thing.  

~ outside play in a snow globe ~ the above being said yesterday's snow was absolutely gorgeous.  It was like being in a snow globe all day.  We had some outside play time with the kids and we all came in with rosy pink cheeks, ready for a nice lunch and rest/nap time.  

~ Banofee Pie ice cream ~ from our local small batch homemade ice cream store I had bought an extra pint back in January when it was a special flavor for that month.  I put it in the big downstairs freezer and then forgot that I had it until I went digging for something this week and there it was hiding under a loaf of bread that was in the wrong spot.  A yummy treat for this week.

~ cute spring/summer purse ~ wasn't on the hunt for one but when I went to my favorite store there it was just calling my name.  At first I left the cute pink purse behind on the rack after humming and hawwing about it.  But when I came home and told hubby he told me to go back and get it for myself.  So who am I to argue?  

~ washers and dryers ~ this week after my umpteenth load of laundry that I got behind on last week, I realized how thankful I am that God allowed me to be born into the this time and place where I can have a washer and dryer right in my home that all I have to do is throw the laundry in and push a few buttons.  I remember watching my Mom as a kid and all the work that her ol' wringer washer was.  And that appliance at that time was actually a great thing.  And heavens, the thought of heating a tub of water over an outdoor fire pit and doing laundry in that with a washboard or hiking to the river, well let's just say I don't think I would made a very good pioneer.  I am very, very grateful for the blessing of a modern washer and dryer.

What were you thankful for this past week?