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.
This is a week with an abundance of favorites, but I’ll try to narrow it down to five!
1. Our church’s Fall Festival. This is the first year we’ve attended (had a scheduling conflict last year). Every year the Saturday before Thanksgiving, the church has a number of festival things set up for kids (bouncy house, petting zoo, games, a fire truck), food, a game for all, then singing and testimonies. The food this year was a chili cook-off, soups, hot dogs, and pies, and the game a version of Minute to Win It. We didn’t go to the early festival parts, but came in time to eat, and enjoyed the whole evening. My favorite part was the testimonies, reflections of God’s faithfulness over the last year.
2. Jeremy’s coming home and having all the family together again.
3. Thanksgiving foods. We tend to be pretty traditional in our Thanksgiving feast, so we look forward to the same dishes each year.
4. Games. Listening to the kids play Settlers of Catan “just like old times” and then joining them for Apples to Apples later in the evening.
5. Time to relax. Though there was a lot of cooking and dishwashing going on the last couple of days, there was time to watch a DVD together and even some time to sit and read. It’s nice when everyone is off and there are not the usual constraints on the schedule.
Though we’re to be thankful all year, it’s nice to have this time set aside specifically to focus on being thankful.
Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving! No Black Friday shopping for me, at least not in the malls!
Stray Thoughts 
Happy Thanksgiving!
Hope your bellies didn’t explode with the Thanksgiving turkey, lol !
Glad Jeremy got to come home and the family is together again. I look forward to Morgan coming home next weekend.
Enjoy your relaxing time! No Black Friday shopping for me either, except a few books I ordered online. 🙂
Having the family all together is something I appreciate more and more as I get older. It gets harder and harder to make it happen, it seems — but things feel incomplete unless everyone can be there.
I value my life…no Black Friday for me either! Glad you had a wonderful day!
Don’t you love it when you have to choose only five from the many blessings of the week? So glad your family was all together again for fun and food and family time.
I really do love going around to read these FFFs during this time of the year. They all full of warm, lovely messages about the holiday season. Look forward to reading more in the upcoming weeks. Sounds like you and your family had a lovely Thanksgiving holiday. Enjoy the rest of the holiday week.
The festival at your church sounds like alot of fun!
Obviously, your holiday is a warm, family-time. Glad it was a good one for you!
Your church’s fall festival sounds really fun. I love how they include a time of testimony. That is so very fitting.
Sounds like you had a great Thanksgiving with your family. Glad to hear it and – Happy (Belated) Thanksgiving!