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, 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.

Another busy week…I was wishing we could have a week, or even two in a row, with nothing at all scheduled. Looks like it might be a few weeks before that’s a possibility! But they haven’t been bad weeks for all that. Here are some of the highlights of the last week:

1. Father’s Day. It’s nice to have a time set aside to honor Dads, even though of course we honor them in our hearts all year. The family pitched in to make dinner: Jason and Mittu grilled hamburgers instead of Dad doing so, and Jesse shucked corn and set the table. I try to give one or two fun “nerdy” gifts as well as practical ones, and found some good ones this year (a little tank controlled by an iPhone and a caliper pen) that he liked. We got to FaceTime with Jeremy during the present opening. Grandma was in rare form (though somehow she thought it was her hundredth birthday — she turns 84 next month). All in all it was a good day.

2. The passing of the longest day of the year. The Summer Equinox was Wednesday, I believe. Even though I like having more daylight much better than all the darkness during winter, it has been staying light so late that it’s hard to wind down and get ready to go to sleep at an appropriate time.

3. An inspiration to clean earlier in the week….when I didn’t know I’d be having unexpected company over the weekend. It helped a lot to have a great portion of the cleaning already done.

4. Completing my Spring Reading Thing Goals. I haven’t checked to see how often that has happened, but I think I’ve missed it more often than not.

5. A new CD: By Faith by the Galkin Evangelistic Team. I’ve been wearing it out, especially the song “The Perfect Wisdom.”

Bonus: My Mother’s Day roses are flourishing!

Happy Friday! Have a good weekend!

8 thoughts on “Friday’s Fave Five”

  1. What a great list of faves!! my spring thing reading is finished too (well, I’m still waiting for one book, and finishing up 2 more! LOL). Those roses are so pretty and yay for grilling outside for Father’s Day!! Happy first weekend of Summer, Barbara!!

  2. I should think that sometimes you just have to laugh and smile about the things Gradma things. I think it’s rather funny and cute that she thought it was her 100th birthday! (Well, that WOULD be something exciting.) Glad Jim had a great Father’s Day.

    Your roses are lovely!

  5. Your Mother’s Day roses are beautiful! And I love a good dinner from the grill…usually because I don’t have to cook it. HA Have a great week.

  6. It was nice to see a glimpse of the outside of your home 🙂 And, yes, those roses look great. That photo of your husband looks almost staged! Yes, he’s relaxing while someone else grills! So nice your family enjoys being together.

  8. I like your thinking on the long days. Not only have we been letting the kids stay up (a bit) later, but that means OUR wind-down is shorter…and Derek gets up at 4:30.

    The little toy tank sounds like great fun, as did all of Father’s Day!

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