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, 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 some highlights of the past week – I think many of them are “repeats,” but it’s good to be thankful for blessings every time they happen, not just the first time: 🙂
1. A three day weekend.
2. A cookout with the family including grilled hamburgers and chocolate pie.
3. A leaky toilet fixed, and a hard-working husband willing to tackle it. He had Jesse work with him this time – figured it was one of those life skills he needed to have. I’m thankful, too, that we have more than one bathroom so it wasn’t much of a problem to have one out of commission for a day.
4. God’s help reaching a goal. I’ve been working on the church’s ladies newsletter and hoped to get it finished yesterday so all I had to do today was proofread it one last time before getting it printed (as opposed to racing against the clock Friday afternoon to get it done), and, thank the Lord, that happened.
5. Good visits with Jim’s mom. Since she is not speaking much any more, and when she does try I often can’t hear or understand her, it makes visiting a little harder. Sometimes she nods or shakes her head, but sometimes you just don’t know how much she is getting. Two days ago she actually laughed at something I said and then teased Jim back a little bit, and yesterday when I asked her if she’d had a good lunch, she asked me, “Did YOU have a good lunch?” Then she was able to speak quietly, but still out loud, for the rest of the visit.
Happy Friday!
Stray Thoughts 
We had a lovely three day weekend too and nice time with family
That’s wonderful about your dear mother-in-law!
Yes to three day weekends! I have one of those wonderful hard-working hubbies too, and they’re gold. Glad to hear you had a good visit with your mother-in-law. Sweet moments to treasure. Have a great week ahead!
Sounds like a good week Barbara! Good for you for continuing those visits even though they are hard.
how awesome that you had that experience with your mother in law…every moment is a true treasure. Yay for hard working hubbies, grilling and the help of God…a REAL blessing for sure!! enjoy your weekend
Fortunately you have more then one bathroom, very annoying otherwise, lol !
It’s sad when people get old and loose their mental capacities.
What a blessing to be able to communicate with your mother in law this week.
Yes, that three day weekend was wonderful 🙂
It’s so good to remember the simple gifts of the week as well as the big. Isn’t it wonderful to have FFF to have us looking for them as the days pass?
So glad to hear about the sweet moment with your MIL.
We also BBQ-ed last weekend. Only for us it was our first time and I inadvertently gave Jonathan food poisoning!
Nevertheless, he let me experiment with the grill again last night. So far, so good…..
It’s so hard watching our loved ones get older and lose some function. What a sweet little blessing though you had in the communication that occured.
Love grilling outdoors, burgers are one of our favorite meals!
I don’t know what I would do if it wasn’t for hubby being able to fix things around the house. It’s great that Jim is showing Jesse how to do things like that!
I had a three day weekend too here in my part of the world. I particularly love #5!