Friday's Fave Five #890

Hi everyone!  Welcome to Friday's Fave Five.  Please join in as we look back over the week and  look for blessings in our lives, things that made us smile, uplifted us, helped us to take another step.  They may be big or they may be small, they may have big impact or just be something that may have slipped by had you not paused to think about it.  Whatever they are they are helping us to cultivate a grateful attitude.

~ new water bottle ~ my massage therapist is always telling me I need to drink more water.  She can tell my muscles are lacking enough hydration.  But I find it hard to just chug water all day long.  In an effort to motivate myself I splurged on a really nice water bottle to help motivate me and help me to notice it sitting there patiently waiting for me to pick it up and drink from it.  So far it's worked fairly well.  It's a 4 cup size and I've been drinking it most of it daily since I bought.  Yes, I know the recommendation is 8 cups but I figure 4 is better than what I was doing before.  I find adding lemon or lime slices really helps too.

~ Mother's Day ~ Though none of my kid's were able to be here on actual Mother's Day, I'm grateful we were all able to meet up a couple of weeks ago.  On Mother's Day I got phone calls and txts which were a blessing.  Along with gift cards to buy my bedding out plants and Hubby bought me our traditional Mother's Day lunch and took me to get the stone border I wanted for the front flower bed.  So all in all I'd say it was a lovely Mother's Day.    

~baby shower ~  this week our ladie's bible study group went to the home of our youngest member who had just had a beautiful baby boy.  I won't go into details because it's not my story to tell, but the safe and healthy arrival of this little one was a miracle to celebrate.  We spent a lovely couple of hours sharing gifts with the very happy Mom and getting all the cuddles with the little one we wanted.  Our group is mostly "mature" ladies so full grandma mode was presenting itself.  At the end we prayed over them and blessed them as Mom and babe will now be attending the young mom's group.  

~ movie night ~ Saturday night I was on my own and I could hardly wait to curl up with Neflix's movie adaptation of Remarkably Bright Creatures.  I listened to the audiobook last year and loved it and couldn't wait to see it.  I heard the author was quite involved with the movie and it showed.  Though things had to be left out as is the usual with adaptations, I thought they did a lovely version.  Sally Field was wonderful as the main character.  And just like the book it made me cry.  

~ easier work week ~ most days this week I've only had 3 or 4 kids instead of the usual 6.  Though I mostly prefer when they are all here the bit of a break was nice.  

What were blessings in your life this week that you are grateful for?

• ‘Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
• — Alice Walker