Faithful

I know I've been terrible at blogging lately but just have to share this quick thought.

I spent yesterday afternoon with some good friends doing a "craft" but that was mostly just an excuse to hang out together, drink some wine, and share some laughs.

That night as I was laying in bed with hubby, thinking about all the unknowns of our future and all of the deadlines that I'm not sure I'm going to meet, I said, "T, what's going to happen?!"  And my calm and wise hubby said, "I don't know.  But its going to be something good.  Think about everything that's happened in the last two years.  We just spent the afternoon with some good friends, this time two years ago you were working minimum wage at job and hating every minute, we didn't have a church, we didn't have any friends.  Think about all the good things that God has brought us."

Swallow hard.  Message received.  I so quickly forget every gift, every blessing, every provision that came at just the right time.  I so easily get caught up in the now and forget that God has never failed me.  So today, behind on work, no idea about the adoption, mom fighting cancer,...I can still say, yes, You were faithful and I know You will continue to be because you've never failed me yet.

Please God

Drought
I can only see the faces of my friends.  What can I do?

Birthday Gratitude

Today is my birthday.  And I want to be grateful.  Birthdays should be joyful days but they are also days of reflection, of laughter tempered with a reminder that we are all finite.  Some find birthdays depressing.  I choose not to - I want to celebrate, to be thankful, to praise God for the years I've been given to enjoy things here, build relationships, and grow.  I want to make a thankfulness list for today.  Without premeditating this blog at all, here are the first 15 things that come to my mind that I'm thankful for today.
1.  Real brewed coffee with cream
2.  My mother
3.  Soft blankets
4.  Bright sunshine
5.  Robins
6.  The green grass that is finally here after a long winter
7.  Sleeping in
8.  My husband who makes me laugh
9.  Hot water
10.  Jodi
11.  Tracy
12.  Cold medicine (yep, sick on my birthday)
13.  Kleenex (see #12)
14.  Janet
15.  Waterslides

Huh, well that was a bit more random than I thought it would be.  Embrace thankfulness, it does the body good.

Snow Tastes Good

She couldn't see me but I could see her.  From her vantage point on the playground she could see only a wall of bright reflective mirrors.  She didn't know that I was just on the other side of those tinted windows in the staff lunch room, trying to catch my breath between classes.  I watched as she climbed atop a hill of piled snow her two black braids bobbing under her heavy pink toque with a huge pompom on the top.  Reaching the top of her mountain she stood to face her mirrors, caught up for a moment in her reflection.  She smiled, twisted her braids, smirking at herself and then, with a grin, plunged both of her mittened hands deep into the snow, pulled a huge mound of it to her mouth and took a missive bite.  I laughed but she couldn't hear me.  Grinning even more now an her snow covered face she twisted back and forth in front of her mirror as she ate and then she went back in for a second round.  She did this over and over, joyously chomping away and her snowy feast, her dark braids now covered with the white fluff.  She was the essence of childhood at that moment.  I wished I had my camera.  How beautiful.