Thankful Thursday

• dirty but thankful hands reaching for fresh-baked cookies


• roots on my rosary plant budding, decades of beads ready for transplanting


• the unmistakable smell of lilacs in bloom in every shade of purple


• a day all to myself cooking, cooking, cooking...a month's worth of meals happily labeled and lined up in my freezer


• boys practicing for piano recitals, mommy practicing patience for boys


• mini Dairy Queen blizzards after playing at the park


• Nathanael's peach-fuzz, shocked that it's still peachy


• lupines reaching for heaven in my Grandma's old blue jar


• watching a Brewer's baseball game on a Sunday afternoon while eating nachos


• Paul leading the nightly rosary with jammy clad boys


• little hands helping cut fresh flowers


• watching Big sky sunsets on our back deck