It is well...

On the flight home from St. Louis last weekend, I began to feel the dreaded signs that I was getting the cold/flu that my husband had been suffering through for several days. So, I mostly spent the past week huddled at home in my pajamas, except for pre-scheduled events that I couldn't miss. I'm still blowing my nose too often and tiring more easily than normal.  I've still got the Christmas grocery shopping and baking to do and then there's the annual Christmas letter not even begun, nor the cards to all of the people in our church.  Somehow, though, sitting here in my home with Christmas music playing in the background and candlelight fighting against the gray gloominess of a typical Pacific Northwest rainy day it is well with my soul, in spite of the flu and a daunting to-do list.

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Since 2009 I've been counting my blessings thanks to the prompting of Ann Voskamp.

 I continue to count my thanks

piling up gratitude day by day

in my little green journal.

(and capturing some of my blessings via my camera or iPhone)

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12-7-15-

-my nephew's birthday

-hot Pho soup 

-old Christmas movies

12-8-15-

-the Revelation of Jesus Christ

-vitamins and immune booster and juice and hot lemonade

-our annual Ladies' Christmas dinner and gift exchange, 

(a great evening in spite of fighting the flu, rain and flooding)

12-9-15-

-feeling some better

-the new shades for our living room came!

-relaxing with my husband and watching a favorite show after we installed the shades

12-10-15-

-craft morning with some of the ladies from our church

-a nap in between church activities

-doing the She Reads Truth Advent study in my home with some of the ladies from our church

12-11-15-

-lunch and a movie for our Friday Date Day

-texts from my girls saying they miss us in this busy season

-our cozy bed and more Christmas movies

12-12-15-

-writing in my pjs in my home office

-making beef stroganoff for dinner

-new flannel sheets on clearance after tearing our old worn out ones

12-13-15-

-our church

-visiting with the owner of a favorite restaurant after eating Sunday lunch there

-going to the Northwest Gospel Concert downtown

gratefully yours,