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 all my family at church with me this past Sunday, and also for Sunday breakfast and dinner. I’ve so missed that!

2. Some quiet time with Jeremy before he had to leave. He flew out Monday afternoon. Everyone else had to go back to work and school that morning, and it was nice to just have some unhurried down time together. We didn’t do anything in particular — he talked with me while I cleaned up the kitchen and then he did some laundry so he wouldn’t have to deal with it when he went home. I’m glad he got to stay for that extra little bit of time.

3. A remote computer fix. I came up with a little problem on my computer one night. It wasn’t anything major, and I could still use it, but it was an irritant and took a little more time for my computer use. I e-mailed Jeremy to ask if he had any idea what to do about it. He had a way to log into my computer from where he was and fixed it in just a few seconds. It was a little spooky seeing the cursor moving around under someone else’s control! But I am glad that my personal computer consultant was able to help from afar. (I’ve asked him, “Aren’t you glad for all the practice I gave you to prepare for your current job?” 🙂 )

4. Jesse’s basketball game. At his old school he was a starter, but there are many more students here and much more talent to draw from. He only played a few minutes in the first game, but in his game this week he played most of the second quarter and scored one basket. And his team won! So even though it was an away game on a cold and rainy night, it was still good!

5. Jason and Mittu’s replacement. They’ve been driving back down to SC for several weekends to teach their Sunday School class until a replacement could be found, and finally someone agreed to take the class. Though they’ll really miss their kids, it will be so nice for them not to have to make that trip every weekend.

And a bonus — sunshine and no flooding in our yard or neighborhood. We had so much rain earlier this week that new ponds and lakes sprouted up all over — even across some roads which then had to be closed. The next morning it was all overcast again and I was just praying it wouldn’t rain any more. I was so happy to see the sunshine later that day!

Hope you have a great weekend!