Friday's Fave Five #786

Hello everyone Welcome to Friday's Fave Five.  We're taking a pause to notice and be thankful for the blessings God brings into our ordinary days.  

 I will be joining up with a post as soon as I can but in the meanwhile please feel free to link up with your own post!  See you all soon. 

Well it's Friday morning and I made it.  I just couldn't get on to post last night but it is better a little late than never.  So it's been a rougher week around here with major dental pain through the weekend and week occupying my mind.  But that doesn't mean there were not blessings to take note of.  I'm glad I have this exercise to help me take notice of them in the weeks where it is hard to look beyond something negative going on!  

~ Mother's Day weekend ~  Mother's day weekend was lovely all around.  My son came down on Saturday to spend a couple of days.  He took us out for supper on Saturday to the restaurant in the old water tower.  Sunday was a gorgeous day so we got out the bikes for the first time this year and had a lovely ride.  Then on the way home we stopped at my favorite ice cream shop for a scoop of their special Mother's Day flavor.  Sweet cream with orange blossom, orange zest and vanilla.  Oh my, soooo good.  My youngest daughter sent a card and gift card to my favorite store as she had to work and my oldest daughter sent me a cool plant and Mother's Day wishes as she wasn't able to make the 7 hour one way trip home.  We wrapped the day up with a family Mother's Day tradition: a KFC dinner we had with my Mom.  So thankful for family time on a special day and for my grown children thinking of me and blessing me.   

~ antibiotics ~  after spending  5 days on a constant dose of advil, I was very thankful to finally get into the dentist and be put on antibiotics.  Within a day almost all the pain was gone and became much more bearable.  So thankful for modern day medicines for when we really need them.

~ curb find ~ Saturday was our city's Curb recycle day where you can put things out on the curb for people to take for free.  On our morning walk, I was thrilled to come across this find.  In order not to miss out on nabbing it, Hubby and I lugged it home together all while managing the dog.  We must have looked quite the sight but worth it.  

~ helpful customer service ~ when some questions arose considering some financials on my Mom's account it was nice to have helpful person return my call and patiently answer all my questions.  I do not have a natural bent towards things like that so I was grateful that he answered all my questions patiently until I understood. 

~ fun sky observation ~ On another walk with the furball this week, I looked up and saw two planes almost looking like they were having a race high in the sky.  I've never seen that before.  Now I knew they were many miles apart but they looked like they were right side by side.  They made a nice picture with their white contrails set against the blue sky.   It was fun to observe.  I've always loved the skies and the different shapes clouds make and the different phenomena like the northern lights.  In fact at one time in my younger years I wanted to be a weather person.  Unfortunately, I missed the incredible northern lights last weekend due to cloud and smoke coverage.  I was a bit bummed about that.

I hope you have a wonderful weekend.  Here in Canada it is usually the weekend everyone is out gardening as the chance of frost is pretty much gone.  But it's supposed to be rainy.  Won't stop us all from hitting up the garden centers.