– Such great people running our elementary school. Just really kind people.
– My husband\’s email response to me… always giving me grace
– Offering gratitude when I don\’t feel like it (this week specifically – when things don\’t go the way I want them to for one of my children)
– Stack of Christmas cards from friends – represents people and families we love so much
– Offers to help
– My comfy (and pretty) desk chair
– Hud playing dominoes with Papa
– What we\’re all trying to learn
– Celebrating Daboo\’s birthday with Luke & Julie and family
– That YOU, Father, will carry the burdens of my loved ones
– Dinner and games with my Mom\’s group – what sweet friends
– The way she dresses herself (here for Valentines Day)
– Feeling stretched with home and dogs… practicing patience… that the goal is not a completed/ furnished/ decorated house, but joy and gratitude and contentment in the midst
– Letting Essie sleep in a little on a school morning
– Leigh Anne Tuohy and how hard she made us laugh and think
– That he gets to play with this team 
– And that he\’s got these precious people cheering him on
– Basden\’s first haiku, inspired by watching wind boarders on frozen Eagle Nest Lake with her cousins (Granny would be so proud):
Freezing, crunchy ice
Happy girls swirling on top
cold fish swim below
Look to the Lord and his strength; seek his face always. Remember the wonders he has done, his miracles… 1 Chronicles 16:11-12 