Friday’s Fave Five

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Welcome to Friday’s Fave Five, hosted by Susanne at Living to Tell the Story, in which we can share our favorite things from the last week. This has been a wonderful exercise in looking for and appreciating the good things God blesses us with. Click on the button to learn more, then go to Susanne’s to read others’ faves and link up your own.

Here are five of my favorites from the past week:

1. Having my oldest son home for Thanksgiving!

2. Thanksgiving Day, with all the good traditional food and family time, and then a couple of days off.

3. My mother-in-law’s getting her hearing aid in this week. I had mentioned it was lost a few weeks ago. It looked like the new one wasn’t going to come in before Thanksgiving, but it did and the audiologist worked her in one day so she could have it before they closed for the holidays. That was an immense blessing to her and to us.

4. Encouraging words. Someone from our new church discovered my blog via Facebook and shared some kind and encouraging words about it as well as some other writing opportunities, and then I received an e-mail from someone new in another country who somehow found it and was encouraged by something the Lord enabled me to write. I think all bloggers get into a slump sometimes, and many of my regular blog friends are away from their computers for a time, so these encouragements were timely when I was feeling a little low. And I am always blessed and amazed when the Lord uses me in some way.

5. The garage room, or the Spare Oom, as Faun Tumnus of Narnia would say. I mentioned before we were turning part of the garage into a bedroom/office. We knew we couldn’t get it finished by Thanksgiving, but our goal was to get it habitable so that Jason and Mittu could move their things out there and have more room, and then Jeremy could sleep on the futon in the sewing room, where Jason and Mittu had been, when he came, rather than sleeping on the couch. We still need to spackle, paint, carpet, and put closet doors on, but we did get it habitable in time (I say we — Jim and Jason mainly.)

So from this two weeks ago:

It looks like this now:

Good work, guys!

I hope all those who celebrate Thanksgiving had a wonderful day! I am not sure what we’re doing the next day or two as a family, but I will be around when I can.

10 thoughts on “Friday’s Fave Five”

  2. That is more than habitable! Looks really, really nice. It’s always fun to complete a big project like that.

    Hope you had a wonderful day yesterday. WHEN I can get Blogger to post them, I have some pictures of shooting skeet yesterday with family (a yearly tradition). Didn’t manage to get any other pictures taken!

  3. HUGE progress on that room — very neat! Kudos to your carpenters.

    Love those encouraging words!

    Have a great week ahead.

  5. That spare room is coming along nicely. Isn’t it grand to have handy folks in the family?

    I think I need a word of blogging encouragement. I have also been trying to find a way to flag my paid posts. Something my friends would see on their readers but that the clients wouldn’t trip to. I haven’t come up with a brilliant idea yet.

  6. wow, that must have been a lot of work!! I have not been doing a whole lot of blogging lately and we may be moving this month–down sizing so……who knows how much I will get done in the blogging area! Glad you had a nice thanksgiving and for the hearing aid—I know how that is because my FIL is really almost deaf. He has to read lips even with the aids!

  7. I finally was able to get online so I’m running around to say hi.

    Happy Thanksgiving! So happy for all your faves. I was in a blog slump for a while and am hoping that posting every day in November will get me back in gear.

  8. Wow, they did a lot of fine work in a short time! Great job!

    So glad your MIL got her hearing aids. That was really good of the audiologist to do that for her.

  10. How lovely that you have been encouraged from unexpected sources. Makes you smile, doesn’t it? Congrats on having a brand new guest room! Sounds your first Thanksgiving in this home was great.

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