Counting it all Joy

Because sometimes you just need to let your guard down and have some fun!
Heading to the park on the first day of February and finding out we are the only ones there! Slides and swings all to ourselves! What a treat!

Letting them slide on the slides knowing their bottoms are going to get wet, due to the previous nights rain!

Ice cream for lunch? Why not!

Because one day, this is all going to come to an end. This wanting to play endlessly for hours on the swings and slide.
Begging mama to play hide and seek behind the trees and freeze tag!

Finding the clues to solving the most perfect of mysteries!

Telling secrets and laughing so hard, together, as brother and sister!

Being little kids!

I am determined to keep them little for as long as I can. No rushing through these little years for us! For these blessings of mine are growing up faster than I care to admit. And I am going to be selfish and greedy and wish for time to slow down, knowing that it can't, but still hoping anyway!

I have been given this amazing opportunity to be their mama and I am going to do my best to enjoy as much of it as I can! Counting it all as joy!









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Counting 1000 Gifts of Joy!
January 30 ~ February 5
2012
{#22-#50}

#22 Waking up to a flat tire and thankful I had nowhere to go
#23 A handy husband who knows how to change said flat
#24 Cucumber Salad
#25 Watching my kids follow daddy everywhere the second he walks in the door after work
#26 60 degree weather on the last day of January
#27 Sunglasses on...windows down
#28 Whole Foods BBQ Chicken Pizza...Mmm!
#29 A good cup of coffee
#30 Waking up early to sit with Him
#31 The book of Psalms
#32 Spending the day at the park...on the first day of February
#33 Ice cream for lunch
#34 Breakfast for dinner
#35 Red Ruby Grapefruit
#36 Family who is there in an instant when you need them
#37 Yarn and the sound of clicking needles
#38 A friend who loves knitting...more than I do!
#39 A night to knit with said friend
#40 That same friends willingness to help when I discover a new stitch
#41 Breakfast with my mama
#42 A day out with my mama
#43 Finding a great deal on a book I have been wanting {$1.00}
#44 Bedtime stories and snuggles
#45 Spending the day with my sister
#46 Watching Emma make friends
#47 Shamrock Shakes
#48 A Sunny Sunday
#49 Worshipping in Church
#50 Knitting on a lazy Sunday afternoon

also linking up at The Better Mom


So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness. ~ Colossians 2:6-7