School is almost over...

School is winding down and the next few weeks are filled with fun business and no homework.  This is usually my least favorite time of year...  we have to get in 180 days but the 'work' is over so the remaining days are full of, what I like to call, fluff.  My normal tenancy is to wish these days away and complain about them not being over fast enough.  But I wonder, over the past 6 years, what I missed in those last few weeks of school.  My prayer is to slow and enjoy the end of Sam's elementary school career.  I want to fully live this time with him, having my eyes wide open to Gods goodness and offering thanks...  out loud.

Psalm 50:23a    The one who offers thanksgiving as his sacrifice glorifies me;


Things on my list all out of order... 
 

Sunday morning sunrise



Notes passed in church

Maggie

Moths that look like rock

boy covered in dirt

a boy and his legos

the wedding gift wind-chimes still singing

loosing teeth

girls growing up

Monday Fun

Psalm 34:1-3  I will bless the Lord at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth.  My soul makes its boast in the Lord; let the humble hear and be glad.  Oh, magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together!

153. our yard...  love it's flatness, it's shadiness, it's bigness, and it's fenced-inness.

 154. flower for the fort

155. 52 baptized
156. worshiping outside... we had our annual outdoor service and it was so fun. 

 We took everything but the kitchen sink...

 and some of us ate almost the whole time

 157. little pink surprises growing through our back fence...  the people behind us have moved and no one currently lives in their house so I don't think they would mind... 

 158. swinging to the trees...

 

159. warm sun with a cool breeze
160. pink skin... stinging
161. cleaning the dirt off
162. family fun
163. a week off from nusery
164. friends who write back... Tenaya :)
165. indoor plumbing
166. curling iron
167. the gift of helping my kids see historical events through a Biblical lens.