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 five of 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.

I had a wonderful Mother’s Day. I always appreciate my family’s efforts in making it a special day. As I’ve mentioned before, it’s been nice to be able to Skype Jeremy so he is included in these special days. Here are a few highlights of the day:

1. Mother’s Day dinner. Or feast, I should say. I love that the family all pitches in together to make dinner on Mother’s Day and then to clean up afterward. Jim grilled his wonderful burgers and sausages, Jesse shucked corn on the cob, we had potato salad and baked beans, and Mittu made:

2. Mother’s Day Cake.

It was a chocolate fudge cake with peanut butter icing and fudge sauce drizzled over the top with bits of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups on top.

It was very good! It was also very sweet and rich! We could only eat small pieces of it at a time. But it was good!

3. New books! I’ve finished one already and will review it next week.

4. Hanging plants. We used to hang plants by our patio of our old house, and I’d been lamenting (inwardly — I don’t think I had said anything out loud) about having no place to put any here. But my husband put hooks up outside these windows and I saw the plants there when I opened the blinds on Sunday.

5. An encouraging Mother’ Day message. Mother’s Day sermons can be inspiring, but sometimes the ideal Mother is presented in such a way that the bar is raised so high that moms often feel discouraged. But our pastor gave a message from Romans 5:5b: “the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.” Believing mothers can love as they ought to because God has shed His love abroad in us. It reminded me of II Peter 1:3-4: “According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:  Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.” I can remember being astounded when that verse first dawned on me.

Hope you have a great weekend! Ours will be busy — Jesse has a Junior-Senior banquet tonight, our church has a Mother-Daughter luncheon tomorrow, and we have out-of-town company coming on Sunday. I’d better get busy!

13 thoughts on “Friday’s Fave Five”

  1. Wish I had a bite of that cake! Looks delicious. Glad your family is so good to pitch in and make your day special. What a nice surprise getting the hanging plants.

    Blogger is still down so my Friday’s Fave Five may end up being Saturday’s Fave Five. 🙂

  2. Wow…what a cake! Great with coffee, I bet…or a tall glass of milk!

    What a very sweet thing to have flowers magically appear! You have a very thoughtful sweetie. 🙂 Almost like being back on the campus at BJU, where the flowers never died, but were replaced by something new overnight. 😀

  6. That cake sounds yummy!

    The surprise of your hanging baskets is pretty cool, too. I just put a hanging fuchsia out by our front door. I like the ambiance they give a home.

  8. How wonderful to be surprised by the hanging baskets in that way….you had such a special day…
    Are you and Mitu going to the Mother/Daughter event together?
    Mama Bear

  9. you certainly were spoiled well for mother’s day. and i’m so happy that jeremy could “be there” too. skype is an awesome way to keep in touch with others on those special days.

    looking forward to your book reviews.

    what a thoughtful gift the hanging plants were. was it very hard for your husband to not tell you?

    have a great week.

  10. The hanging baskets was such a cool and touching idea! Way to go Jim! Your Mother’s Day sounds like it was very special indeed! And now I’m craving cake and milk. :v)

  11. Wow, lots of fun things to be thankful for. I love the plants outside your window and that cake looks delicious.

  12. The cake looks delicious! Mittu did a wonderful job on it. Wish I had a piece right now.
    I love that you have your baskets already. I’m too nervous to buy mine yet. We still have a threat of frost and I bought them too early one year and all of the leaves and flowers that faced outside of the porch died. It’s only 43 degrees here today so I think I’ll wait another week or two.
    I hope you had a wonderful and blessed Mother’s day:)

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