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.

It’s a busy day, so I’ll have to be (hopefully) short and sweet. Here are a few highlights of the week:

1. Jason’s birthday was last week but we had to wait to celebrate as a family on Saturday.

2. Handy, helpful, thoughtful hubby. Trying to dust off the light fixtures in my bathroom wasn’t working, but I couldn’t reach them to take them off for a washing. Jesse could, but he couldn’t figure out how to get them off — it’s a design I haven’t seen before. I asked Jim if he could get them down for me: he went “above and beyond” and cleaned them and the base and then put them all back together for me. Plus he fixed the garbage disposal when it stopped working (evidently a corn cob holder had gotten broken and stuck down there).

3. Going through old e-mails. In trying to create some more disc space, I’ve been going through files and deleting things. I’ve been going through the “filing cabinet” of my personal e-mail account, and was able to delete many no longer needed items, but had such fun rummaging through others, particularly notes from my sister who never writes or calls. 🙂

4. Scheduling Jeremy’s flights. He’s coming for a whole week next month!

5 Finding a baby bird in my hanging basket.

He sat there for a long while, blinking and observing, the little tuft on top of his head ruffling on the breeze. Cute!

Hope you have a great week! I will try to catch up with you later tonight or over the weekend.