multiplying joy

"Thanks is what multiplies the joy and makes any life large, and I hunger for it." -Ann Voskamp

This week has been crazy, hence the lack of blogging! I have to say, I really look forward to Mondays because it's the day of the week that I recount all of the things I was especially thankful for the previous 7 days and it reminds me that life is really, really good even when I think it's not so.

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waking up in my own bed

see-you-later kisses

missing Andrew

Andrew getting out board games after work/him making me smile/laughing

beautiful singing voices

the chapter interviews with Ann Voskamp

reading/absorbing/processing One Thousand Gifts

2 Corinthians 1:3-4

hope for the future

petting Maddy Bell

hard conversations

longing for his touch and warmth

studying the book of Isaiah

singing Come Thou Long Expected Jesus

encouragement and hugs from a friend

Martha's teaching

Isaiah 26:3

candle light and bubble baths

playing Wii Resort with Kellie and laughing

Leah Lou's silliness and laughter

sunshine

finding a new doctor that I like

visiting Sonia

hanging out with Emelyne

tutoring at Touching Miami with Love

running into Aunt Kathy at the mall

winning a Bible verse print from Naptime Diaries

spending Andrew's lunch break with him and stealing some kisses

sitting on the porch with Maddy Bell and reading

getting things done around the house
reading Proverbs

spending an evening with great friends for a movie under the stars

kitty cat kisses

catching up and laughing with an old friend on the phone
lazy Saturday afternoon
intimacy
last minute late night movie with friends
patience
good food
skyping with Alexa and my in-laws
celebrating Mother's Day

dinner and playing the Wii with family

the Pioneer Woman's Life by Chocolate cupcakes {the baking & the eating}

"...they are just the common things and maybe I don't even know they are gifts really until I write them down and that is really what they look like. Gifts He bestows. This writing it down -- it is sort of like...unwrapping love." -Ann Voskamp