Ten Things of Thankful - Week 10, 2017

 

What an anxious and exciting week this has been....

Last evening at sunset my daughter and her finance were married on the beach in Hawaii!  She flew from Nashville to Dallas where he lives, on Tuesday, and on Thursday they flew to LAX and then on to Hawaii.  Though there were lengthy flight delays, it all went fine, and her packed wedding dress arrived amazingly wrinkle free.  Needless to say, it is beautiful there!  Their elopement wedding went perfectly as planned,  just the two of them and the officiant, and many congratulations from everyone they encountered on their way to and from the beach.  It will be a few days before they get their photographs from the photographer, but I do have a picture of the little wedding cake we ordered for them from The Cake Shop there in Honolulu.  It turned out beautifully and both of them declared it delicious!

 

I am so thankful they are now married and will be making a life together in Dallas once she gets her house on the market and sold (prayers appreciated).  No mother wants to see her child alone, as she has been these past five years.  She and I are both happy for the last name change too, it is not fun to carry the name of someone who left you.  She is going to be living so much closer to us, yay!!

I am thankful for my son, her brother, who also lives in Nashville and is stopping by daily to do kitty care for her two cats in her absence.  She has security cams in her house and was happy to see him on the floor playing with them this morning! 

Another big thankful this week... storms with high winds and tornadoes moved through the Midwest this week, and my niece's house sustained $30,000 in damage to her siding and roof, but thank God, it held together in the storms, and kept her and her five furids safe, though there wasn't much sleep for a couple nights.  Some houses in the area were hit much worse.  I am thankful for insurance too.

I am thankful that I was able to help my older sister get her Facebook page back on track.  She'd gotten some bad advice from well meaning friends and had created two new ones in recent months, but ended up locked out of one and having technical issues with the other.  I was able to help her get back to her original page and get everyone notified, so she is a happy camper.  Tech savy she is not (nor am I), and Facebook is her way of keeping in touch with friends, as it is mine.

I am thankful for the jar of delicious Maple Cream a dear friend sent us this week.  I'd never heard of it or tasted it, and she was telling me about it.  So she sent some for us to try, and my husband quickly proclaimed it wonderful stuff.  I agree! I have the most thoughtful friends!!!

I am thankful for the wonderful time my younger sister and her husband had in Florida last week.  It is a real treat for them to get to enjoy some warm sand and sunshine during the long South Dakota winter. They relaxed and had fun, and took my nephew who also needed a break from his job. Sometimes having time alone with just one child or the other is awesome, more sharing!

I am thankful for people who help furkids by fostering or finding them good homes. Our wonderful Zoe helped find a new home for a gorgeous little kitty now named Mitzi, and transported her for a spay, so there won't be more uncared for kittens in the world.  Anyone who loves animals holds a place in my heart.  My daughter is feeding the birds in Hawaii!  I always tease her that wherever she lives the birds become so heavy they can barely fly!  She carries bird food and pet food in her car, and dishes to fill with bottled water.  :-)  My niece is a foster mom for adoptable pit bulls, and always has an extra furkid at her house learning socialization skills and manners. 

As always, I am thankful for my beloved husband because he takes an interest in the things I do, whether it's what I'm writing or crocheting, something a friend shared on Facebook, or a new recipe to try.  I am blessed that we are best friends, and not just living in the same house as I've experienced in the past.  I am thankful he loves furkids too!  He had a cat before I met him that lived to be 20 years old, and it was an inside/outside cat, so that's really incredible.  He puts up with all the cat fur floating in the house since all of ours have long fur, and at least one of them is parked on his lap in the evenings, and one is hanging over his shoulder from the back of the loveseat.

I am thankful and very excited that three weeks from today we will be headed out for a week long road trip.  Not going too far, but to some place we haven't been so that will be fun!  Will keep you posted on the journey. :-)

I am thankful for having enough.  We don't have a lot, we don't have too little... we get by ok, and that is such an incredible blessing, not to have to worry every day.  How I wish everyone could have just enough... if those who had way too much shared more, they would!

Blessings to you in the week ahead! Keep your eye out for reasons to be thankful, and remember to be a blessing to someone else!

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