Skip to main content

today's blessings

When upon life's billows you are tempted and tossed,
When you are discouraged thinking all is lost,
Count your many blessings money cannot buy:
Your reward in heaven and your home on high.

Count your blessings name them one by one.
Count your blessings see what God has done.
Count your blessings, name them one by one.
Count your many blessings see what God has done.

  1. I was born in America.
  2. I have a wonderful husband.
  3. I have a roof over my head that doesn't leak.
  4. We can afford cleaning supplies.
  5. Indoor plumbing.
  6. Washing machines AND dryers! in my very own home!
  7. I have a large family.
  8. I like my church family.
  9. The land of plenty - mechanics, food, hardware stores, medicine, target, etc
  10. chocolate
  11. Dr. Pepper
  12. INTERNET!!!
  13. books
  14. a sewing machine
  15. quilting friends
  16. friends who like to eat out
  17. dogs who keep the geese out of the garage
  18. sunshine
  19. mailboxes
  20. instructional internet videos
  21. copy machines
  22. one more Sunday of take-down after church (Lord willing!)
  23. funny stories & the gift of laughter
  24. helpful sales clerks
  25. crockpots
  26. sunglasses
  27. hot water heaters
  28. restaurants
  29. fabric stores
  30. telephones
  31. sweet tea
  32. vegetables (specifically beans and broccoli!)
  33. our police who protect us
  34. 911 operators
  35. the comics

Comments

sara said…
Great list! We do have so much to be thankful for- thanks for the reminder!
Lydia said…
Happy Thanksgiving!!! :)

Popular posts from this blog

things we do for love

Saturday we had a baby shower for Bobby's niece. As I was making the mints, Bobby asked what else was on the menu. After I recited off the litany of items, he responded with "No peanut butter?! This shower is for Hannah! What's she going to eat?" (Hannah has had stomach problems over the years and has been unable to tolerate many foods, but peanut butter has been her staple.) Despite my assurances that she would enjoy the foods we were having, he was adamant that I needed to make peanut butter & jelly sandwiches for the shower. Even though I protested that NOBODY took that to a shower, he persisted, and informed me I could make them dainty with my little cutter. And so I did. To my surprise all but 3 were eaten. Who'd a thunk it?

get your house in order

My grandmothers were very clean people. My mother thoroughly enjoys cleaning, though she doesn't quite hit the same level my grandmothers were on. I don't enjoy cleaning, but I do like things to be clean. I've almost given up on neatness. One thing that they all instilled in me is the crazy concept that your house must be in order before you go somewhere big - like a vacation or something. After all, you could die in a car crash or have to go to the hospital, and then people would go into your house and find it in a terrible mess. Who wants to be remembered by that? So up until this past year, I would sometimes be up almost all night not only trying to get things packed up, but also trying to totally clean house as well. Or should I say, make the house presentable? The Chinese had a horrible superstition that my mother and grandparents would have enjoyed. Spring Festival (the Chinese New Year based on the lunar calendar) required EVERYTHING to be cleaned top to

Wait...it's almost March?!?

 10 more months 'til Christmas. This last month has been an absolute blur. Cleaning at Mrs. Bryan's house, cleaning at our house, lots of thinking and brainstorming and rearranging, appointments upon appointments, sinus infection/allergies, Bobby's surgery, meeting with surgeon and finally agreeing to future outpatient surgery for me, ongoing updates from my parents, garden tilled and snow peas, potatoes and beets planted (and yes I left several rows empty between the potatoes and beets for something else to go later as a buffer), chickens are laying, we may have a broody hen..in FEBRUARY!!!, we have two roosters that need to disappear, lots of family have been in from out of town to assist with the sorting and cleaning at Mrs. Bryan's house, and somewhere in the midst of it all I've found time to pay bills and catch up on a few emails. While I no longer feel like our house is a disaster zone, it is still overwhelming. Years ago a friend posted a quote by Martin Lut