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Jotting down God's gifted moments from the last few days... - Adrianna making paper chains all by herself - Abel's game of trying to remember the names of everyone on our fridge - "Mommy, hat!" - My little muffin helpers - Having the sweetest Bible study alone while Scott took the kids to Sunday School - Taking three dogs and Abel on a walk (I have a feeling a few people might have chuckled as we went by) - Adrianna's fruit that looked like a bear - Making an "oogly eye" with Gears with Adrianna - Adrianna filling all the mini cupcakes as we made gluten-free ones for her to share with her class - Sharing one of my favorite passages from Job with Adrianna, and her responding, "That makes you want to go out and look at nature." - Playing Memory with Adrianna... Game night as her idea of a reward for getting ready for bed quickly ...And Abel playing with the blocks we gave him without disturbing the game - Emptying the dish...

Jotting down a few of the moments of grace from God's hand... - Adrianna wearing hand-me-down cowgirl boots (two sizes too big) to school - Abel calling on the Anna sock phone - Riding my bike with Abel to music time at the library - Abel enjoying the fruit and nut bars I made - Adrianna showing me how to make a salami wrap - "Adrianna, what are you doing?"  "I'm chasing a little brother who wants to be chased!" - Surprising Adrianna with a Skype call with one of her best buddies (who lives far away) - Adrianna creating a butterfly, like the example she saw - A trio of finger painting - Riding the bus on a rainy morning - Farmer's Market friends - Abel's love of oranges - Abel breaking through his potty training standstill because of Lightning McQueen motivation ...And using that new car everywhere - Adrianna helping me make "bumps on a log" for her school lunch - Abel waiting so excitedly for "Tom" (Mr. Thomso...

From Saturday... - Throwing a baby shower for a friend  ...and the creativity of ones who are talented with decorating - Scott watching the kids while I was away most of the day - Adrianna being creative even with furniture - Dinner provided by my in-laws - Adrianna's raspberry hands - The beauty of the monsoonal storms From Sunday... - Two miniature coffee lovers - Making home-made fruit and nut bars (like Larabars) - Making home-made granola bars - And the bars being a big hit with the whole family - The dishes that follow home-made cooking - Adrianna creating another way to use an extra baby shower game - Having fun making school lunches for Adrianna And from today... - Making muesli for Scott and me - Adrianna coming to tell me why she had wanted to stay home from school: feeling like no one wanted to play with her at recess -- rejected, lonely - Cuddling, crying, and praying with Adrianna - Getting to explain how our Father's heart breaks when Adrianna...

Catching up on a collection of God's gracious moments of blessing - Cousins enjoying time together...  And the girls not arguing all the time anymore - Living in a place where the ever-changing sky is a work of art - Abel's spontaneous dance when he hears a beat - And Adrianna's copying him - Abel's reaction to Grandpa's cooking: "Mommy, beans!  Brats!" - Older cousins reading younger cousin's favorite books - Abel trying out Adrianna's boots - Adrianna knitting (calming her night-before-school-starts jitters) - Adrianna translating Abel's phrases for us - Making "Wacky Cake" into the gluten-free version - Adrianna waking up on the morning of her first day of Kindergarten with: "I get to start school today!" - Answered prayers for her peace for school starting - Answered prayers for Abel's peace for Adrianna starting school - Answered prayers for my peace with sending my oldest child off to school - Adr...