First day of summer gratitude...

It's the first day of summer!  We had my husband's siblings and their spouses at our home over the weekend, as well as a large Father's Day gathering at our youngest daughter's house.  After our company left mid-day today, I had chores to do and errands to run.  All of this meant I'm a day late posting my weekly gratitude blog post.  Better late than never, and as usual, there's always so much to give God thanks for!

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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 journal.

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

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6-13-16-

-reading the book of Acts

-a fun day celebrating our granddaughter turning 13-

a mani/pedi, buying her new red Converse, going to the new Jane Austin movie, 
and dinner with Papa at the Old Spaghetti Factory

-a hot bubble bath

6-14-16-

-a fun time at Dizzy Castle with my two youngest granddaughters, 
the youngest's friend and my great nephew

-hearing my seven year old granddaughter and seven year old great nephew 
talking in the car about how much they have in common 

-my hub's running an errand for me

-a June thunderstorm

-praying together

6-15-16-

-starting the morning right

-a phone call conversation and prayer together with my out of town friend 

-lunch and a heart to heart with my friend from church

-the hub's spending hours patiently assembling his new bbq that we got him for Father's Day

6-16-16-

-Mama's birthday-she would have been 91 today

-the morning light shining on my empty coffee cup

-this quote-"sometimes when things are falling apart, they may be falling into place"

-an encouraging time of worship and prayer

6-17-16-

-Psalm 84

-our grandson mowing our yard and the neighbor paying him to mow his yard as well

-my sister and her husband stopping by for lunch and a visit
 on their way through town

-running errands together

-my husband finding us a movie to watch that takes place in Maine,
 (my mama grew up there)

6-18-16-

-an encouraging text

-our oldest granddaughter coming over

-dinner and a campfire and s'mores and staying up til midnight 
talking and laughing with my hub's siblings and their spouses

6-19-16-

-some of the fathers at church sharing this morning

-twenty three of us at our youngest daughter's for a Father's Day BBQ

-teaching my hub's bro and sis and their spouses a fun card game

-staying up til 1am talking

still following,