Friday's Fave Five #884

Welcome to Friday's Fave Five!  Thank you for spending time with this community each week looking for your blessings.  Writing my own list of five favorites and reading all yours, I have come to realize the myriad of forms that blessings from God come in.  Some are obvious and bold while others are subtle and quiet.  Some are huge and some small and simple.  Yet they are what lift us in this journey of our lives, that make us happy and feel loved and valued, make us feel present and get us through the harder times.  Gratefulness opens our eyes wider to things we might not have even considered before and the more we practice it the more we find.  If you have been lurking as a reader, I encourage you to try to your hand at developing the practice of intentionally pausing and looking for your blessings each week and joining in with us.  You don't have to be on a blogging platform, a simple notebook will do.  Just jump in.  And thank you to all of you who have doing doing this for any length of time with me.  You are a blessing in my week every week!

~ lunch date with hubby ~  Hubby and I had a lovely lunch date on the weekend.  Spending time together enjoying good food is always a favorite with both of us. So grateful we are able to get out and do things like this together once in a while.

~ lovely Easter lunch with family ~  There were 8 of us around the table this year.  My youngest daughter, my son and his girlfriend and my sister's family all gathered at my house for a nice Easter dinner.  I wasn't even sure if I would be able to host this year because of my knee but I'm thankful to say the knee felt great and I was able to cook a dinner of ham, ribs, potatoes, spinach/strawberry salad and asparagus.  And we watched our traditional Nacho Libre movie.  Don't ask me how that became traditional.  I have no idea, all I know is at some point it always makes it on.  I think this year is the first time I've seen it in it's entirety.

~ homemade everything bagels ~ my son makes wonderful bagels and he brought ones he had fresh made home with him.  They are sooo good.

~ live Artemis mission coverage ~ we've been catching bits of pieces of the live mission coverage of Artemis II.  Watching when they became the mission that went the farthest ever from earth was thrilling.  I have been fascinated with and read tons on the Apollo missions so watching this new mission to the moon was exciting.  

~ more technical support ~ well when they fixed the issue I had with google and email a couple weeks ago, unbeknownst to me until I tried to send pics from my phone to my email, was that something in the fixing messed up my email on my phone.  I  finally found the time to get on the phone with technical support again.  It took two sessions of an hour each to work out the problem.  I'm grateful for the agent who was determined to get it fixed for me.  It took that second session because I needed to borrow Hubby's cell phone to video feed with him so he could see what my phone was doing.  I'm grateful he phoned me back at a time that worked to have my hubby's phone available rather than passing me off to yet another agent who I would have had to explain the whole  mess to all over again.  Thankful for people who know what they are doing on the tech side as I have no clue and most of it is so over my head.

What were your favorite blessings this past week?