There are so many blog posts bouncing around in my muddled brain right now that I figured I’d stick with something tried and true for my one and only post this week.
I know that makes some of you so sad. Where are the Bracketts? Has mommy finally cracked? No…..we’ve just managed to fill our last three weeks of summer with events that take me far away from my landlocked computer. Oh, how I miss my laptop.
Complaining aside, so many gifts to be thankful for this week. I’m nearing 400 on my list of 1000 gifts but I could have so many more if I stopped in every moment to write them down. Beauty and love and this messy life are all around and it’s not hard to count the grace.
Though sometimes in the midst of my girls not putting on shoes before we tried to leave for the park or Amelia shrieking like a banshee because I strapped her into the grocery buggy or Walmart not having the yogurt I wanted, it does get hard and I forget. So before I leave for the MOPS conference and turn them loose on their daddy (I told the girls I had to go learn to be a better mommy), I wanted to take a minute to count our many blessings.
Like these crazy gals who spent two days in the Pisgah National Forest with Madelynne, Belle, and me. (We decided Amelia wasn’t ready for girls-only-camping.)
This was taken after we did this….so thankful for natural wonders.
We’re heading back up to Asheville in a few days for a family mini-vacation, so Joshua will get to slide down the “big rock into freezing cold water” as described to him by the girls.
I’m also thankful that I chose a long and windy road to travel for this journey, so that when I had to pull over to fix Belle in her carseat so she could sleep better, I got to drink this in….
It’s hard to be mad about having to stop when this is the view.
Have a wonderful Thursday and link up with Julia and share your thankfulness.
Thanks be to Julia who is a never-failing reminder to be thankful and to rejoice in the small things that make our lives big and wonderful. This week I’m offering some visuals of my thankfulness. I’m trying to document some of my 1000 Gifts since sometimes I forget to write them down and sometimes a picture really does show a thousand blessings in a moment.
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| I’ve decided that a salad doesn’t always have to chopped and vegetables don’t always have to be cooked. Thanks be to summer farmer’s markets. |
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| So thankful for this sweet belly. |
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| So thankful for this sweet friend. |
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| Who needs spray grounds when there’s a playground? |
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| Our blooming stargazers that cause the girls to shriek from the porch, “Mommy, come now!” making me think someone is on fire. No, they’re just amazed that when we went to camp, there were no flowers. We came home to this. |
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| Organic soil bag garden. We’re trying something small. So far it’s still alive. Yay, me. Yay, rainstorms when I forget to water. |
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| Everyone should have “wildflowers” picked from a parking lot in a mason jar on their table. |
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| My latest read. I love Francine Rivers. If you haven’t read anything by her, pick up something immediately. This one has been great for me as a mother and a daughter and someone who appreciates “Christian” writing that’s not preachy. |
Today is my 180th post. It would be symbolic but thanks to furloughs and snow, we only went to school about 172 days this year. It was long enough though to make me thankful I made this year my last. Not because I’m so ready to go, but because I always think it’s better to end on a high note. And despite the past week’s craziness, I did have a great year…thanks mostly to these wonderful folks:
So here’s to a simple Thankful Thursday post (a day late as I was experiencing technical difficulties related to relinquishing my school laptop and really loud thunderstorms)…..
Lindsey P. Brackett 