Just like that, we're halfway through May already. It's time to pause with Susanne and friends at Living to Tell the Story to look back over the blessings of the past week.
1. Mother's Day. My family always makes me feel extra-special that day. Mittu made a Mother's Day breakfast of quiche, potatoes, and muffins, and Jason brought it over the night before. It was so nice to just heat up Sunday morning breakfast, plus it was enough for Monday's breakfast as well.
After church, Jim grilled burgers, hot dogs, and sausage. The kids contributed sides, and Jason made Chocolate Pretzel Pie.
I received flowers, thoughtful gifts, and sweet cards. We FaceTimed with Jeremy. It was a great day.
2. Unexpected funny moments. When I opened Jim's card, the inside had a series of flaps with little messages. He signed what he thought was the last space, but it looked to me like that was another flap. I lifted it up, and the card started loudly belting out a song titled "Some Kind of Wonderful." It surprised us all, even Jim---he hadn't known it was a musical card. We all had a good laugh.
3. Aurora Borealis, or the Northern Lights, were visible over much of the US last weekend. We only saw a faint purplish-pink glow one night. But friends around town posted on Facebook photos where they saw a variety of colors and streaks. It was really neat to see something like that---I never thought I would.
4. Plants. Last Saturday, Jim and I shopped for plants for hanging baskets and planters. I was astonished at how expensive some of those things had gotten! But we did find some lower-priced options. It's so nice to see the hanging baskets outside the windows and to have the planters cleaned up and looking nice.
5. A quiet week. We've had absolutely nothing extra this week since Sunday. I enjoy our church Bible study, critique group, family outings and such---but it's nice and restful sometimes to have a free and quiet week.
And that wraps up another week. How was yours?
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