Gratitude

Mother’s Day is this coming Sunday.   All of us are busy with different things planned on Sunday, so my kids decided to celebrate Mother’s Day early.  Everyone was free for dinner Monday evening, so that’s what we did.  …

It's May 1st ... and the hummingbirds are sharing the feeder together! I had wondered if they would share the feeder together again this year. This is a "first" for this year! Yay for joyful "firsts!"And ... the…

My reward to myself after my dentist appointment is to drive 5 minutes down the street to a delightful little park on Lake Washington. Two birds were having a romantic moment together, bobbing their heads up and down,…

Lo and behold  …  my Bunchberry dogwoods haven’t been eaten by the deer this Spring!   This is a first!  Just look at all those beautiful blooms!   This is a first!   I am absolutely thrilled!   Thank you God for…

Hubby got some flowers to plant in our daughter’s planter on her back patio.  They all wouldn’t fit, and there wound up being one leftover.   Yay me getting little puff-balls of joyful color for my own back deck!  …

When you go to the store to get a birthday present for your son (a flowering tulip magnolia tree), and you wind up coming out with a little something for yourself as well!   Hehe!    Yay for springtime joys!  …

I was standing at the kitchen sink doing the dishes when my attention was caught by a sudden flash of light coming from our neighbor’s front window.   We cannot see our neighbor’s house from ours  …  except through…

I was sitting at the dining room table having lunch yesterday when there went Squirrelina up the siding and onto the roof!  I was pretty sure she was only eating seeds from off the roof, but a tiny worry…

Hubby and I were headed to church bright and early Sunday morning when a text came in from our son:  “You want to get coffee after church?”   Absolutely!   Hubby and I had never been to Woods Coffee before,…