Friday, July 16, 2010

Counting my blessings and you are most of them

1.  That my son has the vigor and health to cry loudly (right now)
2. 2 children that love each other
3. A reading husband
4. A sweet shelter from the storm
5. An abundance of fresh food to feed my family (and bunnies)
6. Homemade Apple pie
7. Little girls who giggle whenever they are in the water.
13. Sweeping my daughter through the river water as she clings to me
14. visit alone to my small town library
15. Sharing blackberry cobbler with D at the Hillsville country store
16. Remembering we were hear a year after our marriage, a year after Dorathea, now a year after Jonathan.
18.  holding onto my favorite little girl hand as we hike

19. little chubby boy who rushes at his mommy head first to get a hug
20. Daddy who loves to carry his children on his back Clean and Asleep babies home from the lake

31.  Many Girlfriends by the lakewater
32. Babies gathered around us in the sand
33. "Mom, I had so much fun today!"
34.  Chorus of Chinese ladies giggling and talking with a talkative Dorathea
37.  Child's pose with Dorathea
38.  Sit ups a baby on my feet and on in the air
40. Father-Daughter Tennis
41. Little boy who stands at the door and says bye bye when you put his shoes on
42. Dorathea tickling Jonathan with bear paws of her bear costume,
43. Boys with a lion costume on who wag their tails as they hug you 
45. Cute bear and lion on the couch laughing