God's gifts from fleeting autumn splendor

Counting my blessings, one by one... A week of gifts from God
- My vacuum that can suck up all that gunk in just one cleaning
- Scott using his one weekday morning at home to cuddle with the kids for a brief moment before we rushed to get ready for school
- Abel creating imaginary play with this truck-jeep-tractor
- Ruthie waiting patiently while Abel tractored her
- Abel's pride in his "Triangle" book from Bible study
- Gathering up apples at a grocery store sale (less than a dollar a pound!)
- Adrianna's constant creativity with food
- Saturday morning couch cuddles, watching "How It's Made"


- The kids joining Scott in "Touchdown!" for his team

 - Abel entertaining himself with buckling and unbuckling
- Adrianna's pure joy in finding a cereal that she could have
 ... and the hard thanks when it turned out to cause her an allergic reaction

- Continued thanks for discovering Adrianna's food allergies and her feeling so much better when she does not have her allergy-causing foods

- Adrianna wanting to "work on" her bank statement


- Adrianna helping me make pumpkin pie bread... Mmm.
 - Finally getting my Etsy store up (http://www.etsy.com/shop/EmlyJ98)
... and Adrianna modeling the Pretty Bands
- Counting Adrianna's bank money so that she can buy her Lite Brite refill pegs
 - Adrianna making a tic-tac-toe board with green beans
 - Laughing at the funny things I took out of my purse
- Taking pictures in the fall leaves with friends



















 - Adrianna instantly coming to Abel's aid to when his shoes were stuck
 - Riding home from school again
 - Abel's instant response: "You okay, Anna??" when he heard she fell
 - Finding Abel waiting for me


- Adrianna working towards five stickers in a row from her school report 

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Bloom Where You Are Planted said…
LOVE that Anna's willing to stop what she's doing, get on the ground and help her brother with his shoes...THAT is what love looks like!
October 27, 2011 at 11:40 AM
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