Saturday, November 16, 2013
One Thousand Gifts - Vacation and End of Summer
1596 Family trusting us with their son, my nephew, for a week of vacation
1597 The taste of salt
1598 A beach to go with the humidity
1599 A complete night's sleep
1600 Running and screeching from little ones as the waves roll in
1601 A breeze
1602 Discoveries
1603 Little hands
1604 Nephew saying something was wrong with the crabs because they were walking sideways
1605 Entertaining dinner conversation from the cousins
1606 L and J driving on the beach
1607 Watching the pelicans fly just off shore
1608 My teenage son holding my hand walking from the boardwalk to the van
1609 Watching the lightning bolts striking just beyond the Sound
1610 Family to help guide our boys
1611 Transportation down the coast
1612 Photographs
1613 Being well enough to sleep
1614 Ice cream truck stopping RIGHT in front of the beach house
1615 History and learning new things - the person who took the famous photo of Orville and Wilbur Wright's first flight was a surfman at the life saving station we visited.
1616 A less stressful start to the school year
1617 90% of summer bucket list complete
1618 Everyone pitching in to have the house ready to be shown
1619 Both boys having friends to do something with on a Friday evening
1620 Hubby's help with beginning of the year craziness
1621 Perspective
1622 God's hand
1623 Watching the sailboats framed by the trees at the lake
Monday, November 4, 2013
One Thousand Gifts - From Summer
Still counting my blessings - updating from summer (at least until vacation) and pressing on to reach a goal of 2000 by my birthday next April.
1571. Stretching
1572 Air pop popcorn
1573 Cold creek water
1574 Christmas cards
1575 Summer bucket list
1576 Beautiful color in the front and back flower beds
1577 Relying on God
1578 Time to read a book
1579 Help in the kitchen fro a five year old
1580 Sunday School parties
1581 Hubby's leadership
1582 Safe return from Scout Camp
1583 Much cooler temperatures
1584 Blog posts
1585 New book
1586 Sunday afternoon
1587 Amazing life
1588 Love is amazing
1589 Visiting with old friends
1590 Visiting with new friends
1591 I will take this humidity any day!
1592 Cabos and fireworks
1593 The floor wasn't as bad as we thought
1594 Fun finds - old reading group t-shirt
1595 Very fun 4th of July with family and friends
Sunday, November 3, 2013
One Thousand Gifts - It's Been A While
A while? It's been a year!! I've written some in my journal, but I was shocked to see that I hadn't posted them on my blog in a whole year! I'm not even sure if Ann Voskamp links them on Monday's at A Holy Experience or not.
I've decided I'll list everything from when I stopped through the end of the school year in one post here, I'll put everything from summer in another post and then I'll be able to start anew.
1541. Oklahoma skies
1542. A walk with Hubby
1543. No bake cookies
1544. Aunt being with us
1545. Improvement
1546. Similarities
1547. Goodwill
1548. Sleeping til I wake up
1549. A Romo jersey for six years
1550. God is still patiently teaching me
1551. Teaching on margin
1552. Learning to use digital Bibles
1553. Birthday Love
1554. A clean classroom
1555. Supportive Words
1556. Lunch, walk, and other time with MIL
1557. Amazing answers to prayer
1558. The "envelope system"
1559. Meeting new people
1560. Room for growth
1561. Indian fry bread
1562. Needed refreshment
1563. A evening with a child
1564. New columbine
1565. New mulch
1566. Nephew's remembrance (Aunt Winna - baseball tournament to benefit cancer research)
1567. Finding what M needed - suit for cotillion at a good price
1568. Looking forward to something
1569 New framed photos
1570 Fun of an online jewelry party
A New Chapter for Dad's House
Almost two and a half years ago, I ended a blog post with this " I am very happy to have this done though. There are some odds n ends left in the house, but it’s mainly cleaned out (but not clean!)." It was in reference to cleaning out my parents' house. (You can read the whole post here.)
Now we're doing the odds n ends and the cleaning! Really cleaning. Hubby (with some M & L help) has taken out two closets and part of a wall, pulled up part of a floor and replaced it, made a water line to the fridge, moved the hot water tank out of the bathroom and moved the washer and dryer from the kitchen to its' new spot.
We have a new dumpster, but not as big as the first. All that demolition is going in - in with all the things we saved before and now aren't quite sure why. After I left yesterday to pick up M., Hubby and L pulled up all the carpet and threw it away.
What's left? Well, Hubby would know better than I - he's good at this! Replace some windows, take some furniture to an antique store if any family doesn't want it, sell the deep freeze, maybe move a doorway, replace the front door, fix some more floor, add in a kitchen cabinet, majorly clean, clean the cabinets and paint them inside and out (my job), have the fireplace checked, put in carpeting and linoleum, and anything else that needs done!
This project is perhaps physically and financially harder, but not quite as emotionally difficult as the first. The hardest parts - picking the coins up in Dad's room and knowing they were ones dropped out of his jeans pockets behind his bed and cleaning out all the scraps of papers in Dad's spice rack. The rack had absolutely no spices, but it was a good holder for all those papers written in Dad's handwriting - the four of us and Aunt's birthdays, our phone numbers and Dr's numbers, a recipe or two - and a few business cards from people who had fixed things for Dad.
It does make me wonder why we didn't do this for Mom and Dad ten years ago. Dad probably wouldn't have let us!
Now we're doing the odds n ends and the cleaning! Really cleaning. Hubby (with some M & L help) has taken out two closets and part of a wall, pulled up part of a floor and replaced it, made a water line to the fridge, moved the hot water tank out of the bathroom and moved the washer and dryer from the kitchen to its' new spot.
We have a new dumpster, but not as big as the first. All that demolition is going in - in with all the things we saved before and now aren't quite sure why. After I left yesterday to pick up M., Hubby and L pulled up all the carpet and threw it away.
What's left? Well, Hubby would know better than I - he's good at this! Replace some windows, take some furniture to an antique store if any family doesn't want it, sell the deep freeze, maybe move a doorway, replace the front door, fix some more floor, add in a kitchen cabinet, majorly clean, clean the cabinets and paint them inside and out (my job), have the fireplace checked, put in carpeting and linoleum, and anything else that needs done!
This project is perhaps physically and financially harder, but not quite as emotionally difficult as the first. The hardest parts - picking the coins up in Dad's room and knowing they were ones dropped out of his jeans pockets behind his bed and cleaning out all the scraps of papers in Dad's spice rack. The rack had absolutely no spices, but it was a good holder for all those papers written in Dad's handwriting - the four of us and Aunt's birthdays, our phone numbers and Dr's numbers, a recipe or two - and a few business cards from people who had fixed things for Dad.
It does make me wonder why we didn't do this for Mom and Dad ten years ago. Dad probably wouldn't have let us!
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