Showing posts with label Counting Blessings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Counting Blessings. Show all posts

August 23, 2024

Counting Blessings

summer moments with friends

   birthday breakfast with Lisa

   secondhand shopping and lunch with Natalie

   annual Shediac outing with Yada

summer moments with family

   puzzles and games

   yard sales

   campfires

   watching the Olympics

   meals together

   visiting on the cottage porch

   being in Vancouver with Eliza

summer moments alone

   puttering

   reading

   swinging on the porch

   quiet

   days with not having to go anywhere


March 29, 2024

Counting Blessings

long weekends

going thrifting with family on Saturday morning

facetimes with Annie and Eliza

March Madness basketball games

being home
   

March 23, 2024

Counting Blessings

after school visits with Mom and Dad

having my hair cut

Ethan making plans to be home in time to watch Survivor with me

a field trip to the Sugar Camp with kindergarteners

   the bus tire going in the ditch

   the walk in the woods

   the delight over maple candy

   the singing on the bus

a fabulous magician who had us all wondering 

a birthday lunch for Jim and Kristi at Mom and Dad's


March 16, 2024

Counting Blessings

stacks of books

a glass of milk

old photographs

sharing three good things with Sheila each day

Amanda joining us in kindergarten for the day

a Frenchys trip to Amherst with Mom and Kristi

   with more thrifting and lunch in Sackville


March 9, 2024

Counting Blessings

a day for secondhand shopping and a little road trip with Mom

a movie night with Karla

a Buctouche run with Ethan

a sea glass night with Yada friends

   and then days at home to finish March Break

      including a snow storm that lasted all day

facetime chats with Annie and Eliza

puttering

naps with Pearl


March 2, 2024

Counting Blessings

appetizers after school with last year's K crew

supper the next day with dear coworkers connecting again

a trip to Prince Edward Island with Jim and Pearl

Pearl and I tagged along with Jim who had ACAA basketball in Charlottetown. While Jim was out for the evening, we enjoyed a lovely hotel room with no house work or school work with pizza delivery, a basketball game online, and an episode of Blue Bloods. In the morning, I met a friend for breakfast. We visited the Mission Thrift Store and stopped at a sweet little shop in Victoria-by-the-Sea. Then we headed to home-sweet-home. 

 

July 25, 2023

Counting Blessings

quiet days

receiving a handwritten note

reminiscing 

reading a book

a new journal


July 7, 2023

Counting Blessings

 


On May 30th, Eliza graduated from Dalhousie University.

Our hearts were overflowing with joy and pride!

Eliza worked so hard and received Sexton Distinction,
along with the Portfolio Award and the
New Brunswick Architects Association Scholarship.

She is presently in the Masters program.

We are grateful for God's love and guidance in her life.

To try to capture the day, I made a reel.


May 25, 2023

Counting Blessings

Dad & Mom's Train Ride


Mom and Dad took a train ride

from Moncton to Sackville today. 

Dad enjoys trains and had not been on one

since the 70's so I thought it would be a perfect gift. 

On Instagram, I made a reel of the trip to capture their adventure.


May 21, 2023

Counting Blessings


this kid on the first day of kindergarten 

is now 21 and in Crandall's education program

he is on his way to becoming a teacher


April 23, 2023

Counting Blessings

facetime calls from Annie

watching Survivor with Ethan

love you texts from Eliza

the giggles of my kindergarteners

having Pearl at school every day 


March 29, 2023

Counting Blessings

Another package arrived!

My friend, Christine, sent a book to Pearl and my class.

How kind and generous! We are grateful and enjoying it so much.

The book, "Dog Saves Duck", is a true story about a sweet friendship.


March 24, 2023

Counting Blessings

 

When I was at ENC with Sarah, 

I said it would take lightening to know.

There was lightening with Jim. There still is.


March 11, 2023

Counting Blessings

For Yada, my bible study group, we are reading the book, Gracelaced.

With Ephesians 1:11-12, Ruth Chou Simons wrote:

Describe a time when God's ways in working "all things according to the counsel of his will" ultimately brought good in your life to the "praise of his glory".

In my journal, one of the things I jotted down was our children going to university.

There was a time when I wondered how they would ever go. But God has made a way.

In May, Eliza will be graduating with her undergrad degree in architecture.

Annie is now in grad school studying to be an audiologist.

A few weeks ago, Ethan, who is in his third year, was accepted into the education program at Crandall.

God is good.